Here are two photos of different Skype activities done in two different classrooms during November. I like people to see how we use technology to help kids connect to the outside world and to learn in that way.
Callie Dorsey and Alissa Wagner led the seventh grade geography class in a Skype Internet session with the Caribbean Island of Grenada as part of a geography project at Emanuel Lutheran School in New London. Emanuel has had a long time mission partnership with Grenada, and the people there, Pastor Steve Soukup and their new principal, were happy to share information with the students. Skype is an application that allows an Internet connection between individuals and allows them to share audio as well as video as they communicate. It is a powerful teaching tool for “asking the experts” where ever they may be located.
Following a unit on Internet safety, the sixth graders of Emanuel Lutheran School in New London created posters and used them to give presentations to the younger students in the school as well as to their grandparents on Grandparent Day. At the close of the unit an Internet Skype session was done in which the students were able to ask any remaining questions to an expert. Officer Joel Kutz, a Student Resource Officer from Wauwatosa, WI, shared his time with the student through a Skype session over the internet. Many questions were asked and answered and awareness for the importance of online safety was highlighted.
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Technology is amazing in the classroom!
