Muchas escuelas en Latino America están volviendo a trabajar y estudiar en las proximas semanas después de sus vacaciones de verano. Volviendo con mucha energía e entusiasmo de empezar un año escolar nuevo e integrar competencias del siglo 21 con tecnología.
Jose Rodriguez me invitó a una sesión de Puentes Al Mundo, que es un sitio [...]
At the beginning of January, I spoke with Howard Wolinsky who writes for the Skype in the US Blog about the “Around the World with 80 Schools” project.
School ‘langwitches’ teacher to reach out with Skype Video to 80 schools around the world.
Around 5 weeks into the project, we connected again for an update.
“Skype Sunday” [...]
Six schools in six countries in one hour? Is it possible?
Over 100 participants in 23 countries have shown desire to connect with other schools and left their contact information.
Time zones issues seem to be the biggest hurdle in connecting our students with schools from the Eastern Hemisphere during school hours.
I invited the students in my [...]
Thank you to everyone who has participated or is working on connecting with another school through the Around the World with 80 Schools project.
For many of you this is the first time Skyping with another class and I applaud you in taking the first step. The benefits for your students AND you are incredible.
Through twitter [...]
My original idea of charting the journey in order of geographic location has turned out to be a logistic nightmare. Timezones and availability of each school seem to make contacting each other harder than it had to be.
Since the primary objective is to make the connections with the school, we are going to connect with [...]
In the process of Skype becoming more and more popular in schools and teachers are becoming more comfortable in using it with their students. there seems to be something else emerging:
Rituals
Two of the Around the World with 80 Schools participants have let me know of a ritual that they are observing at the start of [...]
Howard Wolinsky, Skype’s USA blogger, contacted me a few days ago to ask if we could talk about the Around the World with 80 Schools project.
He recorded the skype conversation and wrote about it on School ‘langwitches’ teacher to reach out with Skype Video to 80 schools around the world.
I am hoping it will help [...]
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