Our new friends from New Zealand organized an event where they stayed at school after school hours in order to be able to Skype with different countries. As we are 10 hours behind, our morning ( 11 am) was their evening ( 9 pm). First we played Mystery Skype game and after that the students talked about school, sport and music. Here is the video on their blog - http://www.room5bis.blogspot.com/2014/04/skyping-with-serbia.html
Today we were a part of Ms. Cass Parker's and her room 5 SKYPE NIGHT. Our new friends from New Zealand organized an event where they stayed at school after school hours in order to be able to Skype with different countries. As we are 10 hours behind, our morning ( 11 am) was their evening ( 9 pm). First we played Mystery Skype game and after that the students talked about school, sport and music. Here is the video on their blog - http://www.room5bis.blogspot.com/2014/04/skyping-with-serbia.html
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On Wednesday, May 22nd 2013. my 6th grade students (and a few of them from 8th grade who wanted to participate, too) had a chance to talk to Mrs.Edmunds's class from Taiwan. This was their first attempt at using Skype and our first chat with a class from Asia, so now we have covered almost all continents.The video wasn't so good because our wifi connection was constantly breaking so we decided to keep only audio on. Some of my 8th grade students sang a song for our new friends and we taught them to say HELLO in Serbian. On Thursday, April 18th 2013. my 6th grade students and I tried out group Skype for the first time. We talked to our friends in Izmir, Turkey and our new friends from Durban, South Africa. However, we couldn't see Ms. Vosloo's class (in South Africa) as her Skype video wasn't working but we exchanged the questions that students prepared and I think we learned something new about how school life looks like in Turkey and South Africa. Today we had another chat with Turkey, but this time with 7th grade class from Eskisehir. Thanks to their school counselor Aylin Silig (read her blog here:http://benimegem.blogspot.com/ and their English teacher Cevher, my 6th grade students got the chance to learn something new about schooling in Turkey. We were specially honoured to be their first Skype friends.
Twitter proved to be a great tool to find a class of native speakers willing to help my students practice their English. Mr.Fritzky's 5th grade class from New Jersey even described the experience from their point of view on their class blog http://kidblog.org/MrFritzkysClass/ Today we had a chance to learn some interesting facts about the tourist attractions near Izmir, Turkey from Mrs.Cetiner's 6th graders. Both classes prepared Powerpoint presentations that we shared via Skype and this was the first time that we tried to share screens so that the other class could see our presentation and us at the same time. Our friends from Izmir learnt about the natural wonders near Nis. Yesterday, we had our second Mystery Skype session but this time we were trying to locate Mrs. Hoffman's class (who are from Glasgow, Kentucky, USA) Since WIFI in our classroom wasn't working, we went to the library and used the internet connection there. |
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