Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Online Communication with other Schools




Blogging -Connecting Your Class to The World

Gone are the days, when you had to learn HTML code, know how to upload via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and create images in Photoshop in order to design a website.
Nowadays, you can use a blog (platform) as an easy tool to create and update a website. Choose from thousands of template themes available online (for free) to have a well designed and good looking presence on the web.
A blog platform makes it easy to update your classroom website by simply uploading one post after another.
There is so much more to a blog though…
In previous blog posts, I talked about a Blogging Unit, a plan to start blogging with your students.
  1. Blogging with Elementary School Students
  2. Outline Blogging Lessons
  3. Introduction to Blogging
  4. Online Safety
  5. Commenting
  6. Writing
  7. Setting up the Blog
  8. Logistics of Formatting Post
Blogging is a process of several stages. From the beginning of making a decision to integrate blogging in your classroom, then writing, commenting, linking, and embedding media to using a blog as a hub for your classroom’s learning community.


Learning Beyond Walls: 21 Skype Resources

Skype in Education

Technology 4 Kids Wiki: Skype Resources
Using Skype at School (The Dummies Series)
Skype in School Wiki
50 Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom
Student Inter-school Debating with Skype by Lois Smethurst
Giving Students Skype Jobs by Langwitches
Skype an Author Wiki
10 Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom
Motivating Adult Learners: Skype an Expert

Finding Classes to Skype

List of Classrooms Ready to Skype
Want Ads by Classes Wanting to Skype for Specific Project
Skype Other Classrooms- List by Sue Waters
EPals Global Community

Recording Skype Sessions

Automatically Recording Skype Calls with MP3 Skype
15 Apps for Recording Skype
Using PowerGramo

More Resources

Improving Skype Calls by Sue Wyatt
How to Produce Video Interviews for Your Blog With Skype
Using VuRoom to Hold A Skype Conference
Improving Skype Calls by Sue Wyatt

Langwitches Presentation: Around the World with Skype

One of the best Skype webinars I have seen! Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano’s Presentation, Around the World with Skype!


“Simple Guide Tool”

Simple Guide Tool lets you create a video/audio/text chatroom for up to four people, and lets you talk and show Google Maps and its Street View of different locations of your choice.
Boy, if you had a sister class somewhere, it would be a great tool for students from each place to show the others their town or city.


http://teachinginquiringminds.com/2010/05/02/grade-3-skype-experience/
from Langwitches Blog by Langwitches

http://classchats.com/
ClassChats is another neat site to connect with classes from around the world.
from Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... by Larry Ferlazzo

http://www.skype.com/

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