Skype

Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom. Using Skype in the classroom, you can meet new people, talk to experts, share ideas and create amazing learning experiences with teachers from around the world.

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Skype is the favorite tool of Ouarda Amid (Morocco)

The platform Skype In The Classroom put us in contact with peers from all over the world. The use of Information and Communication Technology has encouraged and supported knowledge-building through research, videoconferencing and exchange of information, and this helps with communication, improving pronunciation, enriching vocabulary and discovering new cultures and different civilizations.

Educational value:
Collaboration, Global awareness & civic literacy, ICT for learning, Knowledge building & critical thinking, Communication

I use this tool to/for:
Creating, Presenting, Sharing, Flipping the classroom, Distance learning

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Skype is the favorite tool of Shiroma Weerathunge (Sri Lanka)

I would love to make connections with other classes in the world throughout the Skype community to collaborate with my students!

Educational value:
Collaboration, ICT for learning, Communication

I use this tool to/for:
Sharing, Flipping the classroom, Distance learning

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Skype is the favorite tool of Darina Poljak (Serbia)

Skype is a tool that we have used at school since 2011 year, when we bought interractive board. Th main reason for using was my student, Aleksandar Nedeljkov, who coudn't come to school because of his illness... it was beginning. Now, we use this tool also for collaboration, for exploring, for communication with other schools.

Educational value:
Collaboration, ICT for learning, Communication

I use this tool to/for:
Presenting, Distance learning

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