Finally got my son to help me out with the Skype assignment. Ann LaRoche and I have tried to hook up a coupld of different times with no success. My user name is Jennifer.Salasky. My son and I had lots of fun playing around with the Dell Webcam Central tools to make funny faces and sounds... http://screencast.com/t/gw3ptH0m I had set up my Skype accoutn before reading the tips in the lesson, so I will try to go back and see if I can edit my username and profile info.
I am very excited to be part of skype now and plan to use it next starting next semester with my students at school. I always tell them that I check my school e-mail quite regularly during the evening hours and that if they have questions they can send them to me. Using Skype would make this helping process much easier. I have a feeling that I could tell my students when I'd be on-line to help them study for a quiz/test and that several would use Skype to get help.
I also think that the idea of having a working professional use Skype to talk with my students about how they use math in their job will be a great addition to my curriculum. I should have my digital prjector by the 2nd half of the school year, so I've got to start to plan who and when to do a classroom dicussion with someone from the "real" world. I'm thinking I may need to get a doc camera since right now I only have the one on my computer and I'm sure it would be better for all involved if I could show a classroom of kids and/or paper that I am writing on while helping kids.
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