Today was a great day!
Four of our classes had the opportunity to participate in an online video conference with a private school in Pennsylvania. Students in both classes had completed the International Boiling Point Project and the reason behind the conference was to discuss the shared experiences while completing the project. We used Skype to create the VC and it worked very well.
The video conference went off with only minor hitches--sound was a problem but we were able to work through it. Students from both schools were able to ask questions about the project, as well as more personal questions such as "was the school food good?", "have you seen anyone from Jon and Kate, plus eight?" to "do you like your science teacher? (I left the room for that one).
Our students were most surprised about how few students were in the other school, plus they could not comprehend not being able to wear jeans and t shirts to school. I can't answer for the other school but I believe that they could not believe how many students we had.
This was the very first video conference students at our school have ever participated and their behavior and questions were excellent. Hopefully we will be able to schedule more video conferences.
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