This document outlines various ways that Skype can be used in educational settings, including connecting with foreign language teachers, authors, historians, and remote teachers; touring virtual museums; holding student competitions; allowing teachers to attend remote conferences; and providing online art demonstrations. Skype offers opportunities for enhanced learning through virtual field trips, cultural exchanges, and access to remote experts.

2. How to sign-up
• Go to the website https://login.skype.com
/account/signup-form
• Create a new account
• Very simple process

3. Foreign Language Lesson
• Get a native speaker to talk to your class.
• Learn real life lingo instead of an outdated
textbook.
• Your students could teach their students
English and vice versa.

4. Language Arts
• Get an author to speak to your class.
• A question and answer session with
publishers or authors.
• Travel (through Skype) to the countries
where your novel takes place.

5. History
• Talk to the people who lived the history.
• Get another cultures perspective of “our”
history.
• Use Skype to tour museums.

6. Remote Teachers
• The possibilities are endless!
• Advanced math students can study online
using Skype.
• University students can tutor your
advanced math students.

7. Remote Teachers Cont.
• Have “Battle of the Book” tournaments
with other remote schools.
• Remote teachers can talk and see their
loved ones at the push of a button.

8. Principals
• Have your teachers attend conferences
that otherwise wouldn’t be accessible.
• Create buddy schools across the world.
• Set up conferences with parents that are
unable to attend in person.

9. Art
• Take a tour of museums around the world.
• Video conference with artists.
• Watch an artist paint in real time!

10. Online Resources
• Skype has online programs for teachers.
• Tech support is just a click away.
• Vast supply of online resources ready to
help you with Skype in the classroom.

11. • Take your students on adventures they
never dreamed possible. As a teacher, it
is our responsibility to use all available
resources to enhance our student’s
learning….Skype is one such resource!!