Two Tools for the Classroom: Podcasting and Skype Cindy Sheets Tech Day 2010.
Skype Technology for Common Planning and Expanding Your Classroom
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Skype Technology for Common Planning
and Expanding Your Classroom
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Common Planning We all have less!
› Less time.› Less resources.
Skype will help you gain some of your time back. › Instead of having to move and
physically ‘meet’ you can use Skype to virtually meet and plan your curriculum.
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ON
THE W
IKI PAGE
•Please go to the vcscte wikispaces page on the internet.
•Open your email and copy the link to this page in an email to yourself.
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ON
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IKI PAGE
•Here you will find the ‘Downloading Skype’ powerpoint and follow the instructions in it if you need additional help when you leave here.
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Your Skype Homepage Open Skype on
your laptop. Notice the
screen’s different components:› Your Status› Contact List› News/Alerts› Option to
view Top Contacts
› Help Videos
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ADD
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TACTS Simply click in the ‘Contacts’ bar and type the name, email address, or skype name of the person you are looking for to add to your list.
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ADD
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TACTS Skype will search it’s database and find matches to your request. Please remember this is why it is important to include your school, country, state, and county email in your profile.
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ADD
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TACTS
Click icon to add picture
You can keep the original request text, or change it to your own, more personalized message. Then click ‘Send Request’.
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ADD
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TACTS You can rename your contact to a proper name, ex: Oprah Winfrey, instead of their skype moniker. And then you can look for additional people by clicking ‘Add another contact’.
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RENAM
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TACT Right click on your contact, choose ‘Rename’ and rename them. Protocol suggestion: VCS NAME School Abbreviation= VCS Kira Lenhart UHS. This can help as you add school, business and community contacts for your academy.
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ADD
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TACTS Until your contact accepts you, their ‘cloud’ will remain gray, and you will not be able to call them.
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ADD
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TACTS Please type in kmvander1 in the ‘Contact’ search box and hit enter, or click “Find this person”
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ADD
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TACTS Send a request to me to accept you as a contact.
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CALLING
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TACTS
Click icon to add picture
Once your contact has accepted you, their cloud will be green, and you can see their contact details. Now you can call them, IM, or send files to them.
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CHECK YO
UR SETTIN
GS! Click ‘Tools’ on the top tool bar, and then click ‘Options’.
Check your Audio Settings and Video Settings.
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CALLING
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TACTS Let’s practice! Turn your sound off. Here is calling without video – clear audio quality, uses whatever image you have set-up in your profile.
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CALLING
YOU
R CON
TACTS With one video call, and one without the video.
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CALLING
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TACTS Call using IM, click the talk bubble. Type in the bottom box and click ‘Send message’ or just hit ‘Enter’.
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CALLING
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TACTS Call using IM and sending a picture. Just click ‘Save as’ to save the file to a location on your computer.
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ADD
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R CALL
Adding another person to the call.
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ADD
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PEOPLE TO
YOU
R CALL The call now drops from video to a conference call. Contact boxes will light up with whoever is speaking.
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CALL SUM
ARY Notice at the end of the call, Skype gives you a call summary, and history of any files that may have been sent. You can also ‘Save Group’ to your contacts.
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CALLING
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TACTS This is the Group Contact I created for this workshop. Notice it will only be a voice call – not video, but I can still send files and text messages to the group.
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SEIND
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FILES
Click icon to add picture
Click ‘Share’ next to the green ‘Call’ button. Choose ‘Send File…’
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SEIND
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FILES Browse your computer to find the file you want to ‘push’. Double-click it.
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SEIND
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FILES Your file is being sent. Your contact will have to ‘Save’ the file on their end to complete the transfer. You can send Word, Excel, Pdf’s, pictures, etc… LET’S PRACTICE
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COM
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G You can conduct common planning sessions via skype. Here you will see there was video discussion, texting, and file transfers. Notice that you can ‘Show messages’ from different time frames. Either copy/paste this into your planning document, or print screen and save as a picture.
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And those are our Skype basics….
You have now created your account, learned how to add contacts, make
voice and video calls, push files, and print screen to show PLC
common planning.
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EXPAND
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YOU
R CLASSRO
OM
Here is a screen shot of one of our CTE Academy teachers doing a virtual tour to a middle school class.