Thing+Seven

=Skype=

Everyone knows about Skype but lots of people don't do anything with it. Skype has an education section - @http://education.skype.com/ with lots of ways to connect up with other classrooms around the world.

Some things I've seen work successfully have been:


 * New Entrant children skyping into their old kindy to share their news.


 * Kindy kids being taught songs by children at a neighboring school


 * Inviting an expert to Skype in to share their knowledge


 * After the first Christchurch earthquake my class skyped in with two lots of people to talk about their experiences - this was an authentic activity for my class that they talked about for weeks afterwards


 * Last year my class skyped into the National Library in Auckland to visit with several classes from schools around Auckland and Sandra Morris, the author of Sensational Survivors which was a finalist for the NZ Post Children's Book Awards. It was an extremely memorable day as it was also the day it snowed for the first time in 30 years in Raumati Beach!