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Skype
My family and I have been using Skype since 2007 or so. My middle daughter traveled to Puebla, Mexico for a 10 week internship. We were able to talk about once or twice a week while she was there. The video aspect of it allowed us to "take a tour" of her apartment. It was so great that she had access to wireless connection. There were times when the weather seemed to affect the connection, but we were delighted to feel so close to her while she was so far away.

My daughter's fiance travel to Africa for 4 months doing medical mission work. We were able to talk with him on a regular basis, but just like all connections, sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.

Currently we skype with our other daughter in college 7 hours away. It's so nice to use this tool to not feel so far away. I love it.

Ideas for using Skype academically:


 * 1) talk to other classrooms, other school, other district, other countries about specific projects you could work on together, (ideas are limitless)
 * 2) visit places you might not be able to travel to due to expenses or inability to have access (like the moon maybe)
 * 3) teacher at home recovering from illness or surgery and can connect to classroom to reassure students or plan for the future. (I did use this with a district teacher when she was recovering from surgery. She wanted to plan with her team and it made it ideal)