Wanna Skype?

This is the question I posed to my new friend Deborah.  Deborah and I met through the previously pls class I took.  We "teamed" up so to speak as we both posted our assignments early in the week and were able to comment, collaborate and complete our work before the weekend began.  It worked well with our busy schedules.  Since the class ended, we have continued to keep in touch via email.

So, a few weeks ago, during Module 3, she kindly offered to help me with my frustrating Pageflake fiasco.  I said, "YES PLEASE" and, "Do you wanna Skype?"  She said sure -(brave soul)- she's new to Skype. I set up one laptop with Skype and my other laptop to work on Pageflakes.  It took a few minutes for her to figure out that my settings were off and my page was finally ready to share.  I spent HOURS on this project by myself.  Two heads are much better than one. THANK YOU, Deborah!!

As an experienced "Skyper" I can say I'm a HUGE fan.  I Skype daily with my family from Europe to Tennessee.  Every Sunday morning my cousin sets up the laptop in Spain and we are able to talk face-to-face with my 91 year young grandmother and the rest of the familia.

On a professional level, I tried to use Skype to connect with a teacher in a neighboring district but my school blocks the site.  However, we did video conference using Elluminate and our students were able to talk to each other.  I hope to use it again so my students can speak to a native speaker via video conference.  It really makes them realize how cool it is to speak another language.

I think what I love most about video conferencing is that I enjoying talking to people.  I much prefer this to writing.  It may be due to my less than stellar typing skills but for me Skyping is the next best thing to hanging out with friends and family.