A presentation that shares many ways to use Skype in the Classroom including expert speakers, collaborative classrooms, virtual tours etc

1. Skype in the Classroom

2. http://moourl.com/cclass

3. https://todaysmeet.com/sitc

4. Skype in the Classroom
Stories from the classroom for the month of
May
https://todaysmeet.com/sitc

5. Mystery Skype
Mystery Skype with Georgia

6. Mystery Skype with Thailand

9. Mystery Skype with Tatyana Chernaya, Moscow Russia

10. Sea turtle research and conservation at Gnaraloo,
Western Australia

11. What do you need?
• download skype, username, password
• internet access - reasonable bandwidth
• webcam
• a clean wall, screen or interactive whiteboard
• microphone
• skype account
• a professional learning network

12. Skype Collaborations

13. Mystery Book Character

15. World Read Aloud Day

16. International Dot Day

17. .
Link-up with
Govinda Panthy
Nepal

18. These are some of the questions we
asked
• How old are your students?
• What is the tempature over in Nepal?
• Are people who live in Nepal
classified as Asian or Indian?
• How do you speak your language?
• He taught Taylah how to say some
words in Nepalese.

19. Skyping with the Cheery School in Africa’s largest slum

23. https://todaysmeet.com/sitc/
@murcha

24. Breakfast with Taiwan
Kaohsiung city.
Shannon Huang:
school located in Liuguai. Liuguai in Chinese
character has the meaning of "six turtles"

25. We started off with mystery
Skype, once we had figured
where they were, we started
showing each other what we eat
for breakfast.

27. Thai Linkup

29. Typical lunchbox

30. School Garden

34. • The German food day
will be on next
Wednesday. There will
be three dishes on
this day they are;
• Pork Schnitzel and
gravy rolls $4.50
• German pasta Bake
$4.50
• Beef goulash with
spritzla & German
noodles $4.50

35. Global Kahoot – Taiwan, South Korea, Australia

36. Guest/Expert speakers

37. Skype with
Molly the Fire
Safety Dog
Author
Dayna Hilton
http://www.firesafetydogs.com/

38. Australian Conservation Society

39. Sea turtle research and conservation at Gnaraloo,
Western Australia

40. Games developer Bharathwaj Nandakumar
Call of Duty

42. Lunch time Writing Classes with Christopher Herz – author from New York

43. Learning about youtube with @shamblesguru

45. Lana, Grade 6, Boston USA

46. Sprites for World Friends project on World Museum site

47. From Beatriz (grade 4)
Learning about scratch with Lanna was great I reckon it
was magical the way she showed us the snow outside
it was the first time I ever saw snow. I asked a lot of
questions I was very interested in what we were
learning for example……
how long have you been using scratch? she had been
using it for 3 years which means she has a lot of
experience with scratch.

51. Learning Arabic

53. Blake Mycoskie founder of TOMs shoes.

54. Mark Ronson
Uptown Funk fame

55. Arianne Jones, a Luge Olympic Champion for Canada.
International Womens Day
Motivational Speakers

57. Mark Wood

58. You can’t ask
questions of a
textbook!

59. Mystery Skype starts with……

60. @murcha

62. The Goal!
Determine where the other class located!
@murcha

63. Ask questions with …….
Yes
or
No
answer

64. Mystery Skype

65. • Our questions of Dave:-
are you on earth
• Are you in the northern hemisphere? Yes
• are you in france
• Are you on a island near Australia
5 . are you in a communist country? no
6. Are you in a heavy populated area?
7Are you in a country where British had established colony?
8 are you in europe
10are you in africa
9 are in in asia
Do you play any sports?yes
do you like to play basketball? yes
Are you in Europe? No
Do you live in South America? No
Do you live on a coast line? No
Do you live in the capital city of your state? No
Do you have 52 stars on your flag? No See full
document
http://bit.ly/globalclassedutech

67. Reflections
http://bit.ly/globalclassedutech

68. Do you teach or have any knowledge of the native wars
between the americans, seminoles, iroquois, cherokee
etc, in the times of george washington?

69. Skype with small rural school in Kenya
@murcha

70. Bing maps app

71. Mystery Animal

72. Alisa Miller – CEO Public Radio International
Mystery Career

73. Alternatives
• Mystery Number
• Mystery Animal
• Mystery Biome
• Mystery Reader
• Mystery Career
• Mystery Pastime
• Mystery Food
• Mystery element
• many other variations

75. Share and celebrate

77. Video messages

78. Video messages

79. Send files
https://todaysmeet.com/sitc

80. Skype for professional development
Educator Virtual PD
http://educatorvirtualpd.wikispaces
.com/

81. Challenges
● time zones
● different languages/cultures
● overcoming cultural/language differences
● accents
● different meaning of words in cultures!
● bandwidth
● confidence of students

82. ● Pre-set agenda
● Make contact the day before to remind and confirm
● Check and re-check time differences
● Allocate roles to students
o greeters
o reporter (live tweets the session)
o photographer
● Know your students’ limits. 7-8 yr olds can skype for 15-20
minutes before getting restless.
● Text before you ‘ring’
Tips

83. ● Blogs/electronic journals
● Time to search further online
● Collaborative global projects
● Share it out - twitter, facebook, instagram etc
● Work on collaborative projects
● Connect the students beyond school
Enable further learning/conversations

84. Some Suggestions

88. • Interpreter
• Non-synchronous connections
• Skype video messages
• Mobile apps
The future!

89. • Passion
• Ownership of ideas and projects
• Connections - networking
• Communication
• Willingness to take risks
• Determination
• Necessity of pre-testing
• A sense of humour!
• Work through all issues and do not judge!
Requirements for success

90. ??????

91. eFind Me
mirtschin@gmail.com
Twitter: @murcha Skype: anne.mirtschin
My blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com
http://murch.global2.vic.edu.au
http://moourl.com/dltvnowalls