http://tagcblog.edublogs.org/2008/02/25/skype-or-not/ Just another Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:58:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://tagcblog.edublogs.org/2008/02/25/skype-or-not/#comment-7 mhall Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:22:25 +0000 http://tagcblog.edublogs.org/2008/02/25/skype-or-not/#comment-7 I agree about the issues that are inherent in Skype, but I also see that the potential is good for education for Skype or whatever similar technology that follows it. I know that at my school, the techies have been "playing with it for a while." I think that the video-conference has not worked well if there were more than 5 people involved. We can't use AOL IM at my school except indirectly through iChat because AOL causes "not so good very bad things" to happen on our network. Also, the advantage of the voice is lost if a teacher wants to communicated privately with another teacher when students are nearby. In that case the IM feature is satisfactory. I would, however, like to try it for a department meeting! If everyone had to stop and think while keying in a response, things might get less heated :-) I agree about the issues that are inherent in Skype, but I also see that the potential is good for education for Skype or whatever similar technology that follows it. I know that at my school, the techies have been “playing with it for a while.” I think that the video-conference has not worked well if there were more than 5 people involved. We can’t use AOL IM at my school except indirectly through iChat because AOL causes “not so good very bad things” to happen on our network. Also, the advantage of the voice is lost if a teacher wants to communicated privately with another teacher when students are nearby. In that case the IM feature is satisfactory. I would, however, like to try it for a department meeting! If everyone had to stop and think while keying in a response, things might get less heated

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