Comments on: Skype Calls for e-Twinning in L2 http://www.digitalang.com/2009/05/skype-calls-for-e-twinning-in-l2/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=skype-calls-for-e-twinning-in-l2 Teaching Languages with Web 2.0 Technology Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:53:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anne http://www.digitalang.com/2009/05/skype-calls-for-e-twinning-in-l2/comment-page-1/#comment-8148 Anne Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:25:37 +0000 http://www.digitalang.com/?p=334#comment-8148 Thanks for this. I've used group Skype sessions to enrich a distance course in job applications for students spread all over Bavaria. The course is in Moodle, with external interactive materials and lots of writing practice and peer review and all, and then we practice phone interviews. Great stuff... if only the networks wouldn't break down, computers "fall off" and headset trouble be a perennial annoyance. Even if everyone's easy, it's so time consuming. Things take not twice, but maybe five or six times as long as when we do it in a f2f session. These are college kids, so it's not unusual for some of them to drop out with a sweet little wave of their hands when things aren't bumping along at a brisk pace. Have you ever had that kind of problem? Anyway, I was talking to an in-company EFL student of mine, and after he said they never (!) have tech trouble, I'm seriously thinking of using proper commercial dial in conferencing software. Never used it before. Has anyone else? Thanks for this. I’ve used group Skype sessions to enrich a distance course in job applications for students spread all over Bavaria. The course is in Moodle, with external interactive materials and lots of writing practice and peer review and all, and then we practice phone interviews. Great stuff… if only the networks wouldn’t break down, computers “fall off” and headset trouble be a perennial annoyance. Even if everyone’s easy, it’s so time consuming. Things take not twice, but maybe five or six times as long as when we do it in a f2f session. These are college kids, so it’s not unusual for some of them to drop out with a sweet little wave of their hands when things aren’t bumping along at a brisk pace. Have you ever had that kind of problem?

Anyway, I was talking to an in-company EFL student of mine, and after he said they never (!) have tech trouble, I’m seriously thinking of using proper commercial dial in conferencing software. Never used it before. Has anyone else?

]]> By: Technology Blog / 50 Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom http://www.digitalang.com/2009/05/skype-calls-for-e-twinning-in-l2/comment-page-1/#comment-8064 Technology Blog / 50 Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:49:41 +0000 http://www.digitalang.com/?p=334#comment-8064 [...] Skype Calls for e-Twinning in L2. Find out how this teacher brought two classes together that had been Twittering all semester when they finally got to meet “face-to-face” with Skype. [...] [...] Skype Calls for e-Twinning in L2. Find out how this teacher brought two classes together that had been Twittering all semester when they finally got to meet “face-to-face” with Skype. [...]

]]> By: 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom http://www.digitalang.com/2009/05/skype-calls-for-e-twinning-in-l2/comment-page-1/#comment-7956 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:29:44 +0000 http://www.digitalang.com/?p=334#comment-7956 [...] Skype Calls for e-Twinning in L2. Find out how this teacher brought two classes together that had been Twittering all semester when they finally got to meet “face-to-face” with Skype. [...] [...] Skype Calls for e-Twinning in L2. Find out how this teacher brought two classes together that had been Twittering all semester when they finally got to meet “face-to-face” with Skype. [...]

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