There's a bit of a buzz after our project hui about skyping and why you might do it. Teams have talked about skyping each other, skyping Senior Teachers, skyping the new entrants class of a school they feed to, skyping experts in an area of interest with child oriented questions, skyping families who are overseas to keep them connected, or skyping those who go overseas or out of the area in 'off seasons'. The same functions can be done with blogs. here's a link to an article about a blog in the states who developed a relationship with a NZ kindergarten and spent lots of time a few years ago comparing climates and wildlife...
Check it out here....
we had a post earlier in the year ( check it out by clicking on the archive tab for August) about two NewZealand Kindergartens at opposite ends of the country who developed the same sort of relationship with skype.... and a clip about schools using skype to connect with an expert.
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