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**Skype for Educators **

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media type="custom" key="26319466"This is a link to our informational video about the features that Skype offers for classroom use. DeLeo, DeWaal, Joyce and McPhillips

media type="custom" key="26318098" Since I missed the class on the 2nd, I watched all of your videos and vokis and did some exploring myself! While I was familiar with Skype, I wasn't as familiar with Google hangouts so I did some investigating! It seems to me that a Google hangout can be as simple or complex as you want it to be! As I was reading about it, I was thinking about how both Skype and Google Hangout have the possibility of connecting classrooms across the world and truly evening the playing field. The idea that my class could be reading Charlotte's Web alongside a classroom on the other side of the world and through Skype or Google Hangout, my students could communicate their favorite parts, suprises, questions, and more! In a town like Cohasset, diversity is always something I'm striving to incorporate into the lessons that I teach and it seems to me that both of these amazing tools could be an incredibly powerful and simple way of teaching my children about other communities, cultures, and countries around the world! Karen McDavitt

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(from Jim WIllis) For all, this needs to be posted on your own wikispace. Give a short paragraph about safety on the Internet for context, and the district's responsibility to teach these skills.

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This is a great article that links to a free pamphlet with advice from kids to their parents about internet safety. The homepage, safekids.com, is a good general resource for students and parents.

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Good resource from the American Psychological Association on bullying and cyberbullying - both what they are, and steps toward prevention.

=Awesome Jim!!! Thanks for this information! What a great help! -Julia DeWaal =

 [|Judy Ritts and Debbie Hathaway Padlet] This is a padlet wall presenting links for students and teachers to click and easily explore the web conferencing tools of skype and google hangout.