Thursday, May 6, 2010

E Journal 9 Playing With Skype: NETS II and V

Weller, T.W. (2010). Playing with skype. L&L—Learning & Leading with Technology, 37(6), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=March_April_No_6_1&Template=/MembersOnly.cfm&NavMenuID=4516&ContentID=25508&

Don’t believe the Skype, just kidding. Believe the Skype, Skype will allow teachers and students to become experts in everything. Hook up a couple of cables and log on to Skype .com and you can have a live picture chat with anyone with a computer and a web cam. The world is at are laptops. Skype allowed this music teacher to have a concert with his honors band and the composer who wrote the sheet music, to conduct his music from another city while other people watched. How cool is that? After the concert was over the composer answered questions of why he wrote for the note to be played the way it was. Skype will allow teachers to become experts on everything. All a teacher needs to do is have the correct equipment which most schools already have, and find an expert in the field he or she is teaching. Skype the expert sit back and watch the students and the teacher become experts.
Question 1. What equipment is really needed: The equipment requirements were very minimal: a computer with a broadband Internet connection, a data projector, a couple of microphones, a webcam, and some adapters to pump the audio feed through the sound system, and a projector screen.
Question 2. Why does Skype make life easier for a teacher: Skype makes it possible for educators to seek out experts in their subject areas and invite them to share in the classroom or the rehearsal hall.

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