 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.

Please go to our wikispaces page on the internet. Please go to our wikispaces page on the internet. On the right, you will notice a new tab, ‘Academy Tech’. Please click. On the right, you will notice a new tab, ‘Academy Tech’. Please click.

If you have not downloaded Skype to your computer, please click on the ‘Downloading Skype’ powerpoint and follow the instructions in it. If you have not downloaded Skype to your computer, please click on the ‘Downloading Skype’ powerpoint and follow the instructions in it. Everyone else, open your Skype account. Everyone else, open your Skype account.

 Open Skype on your laptop.  Notice the screen’s different components: › Your Status › Contact List › News/Alerts › Option to view Top Contacts › Help Videos

S i mply click in the ‘Contacts’ bar and type the name, address, or skype name of the person you are looking for to add to your list.

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 in your profile.

You can keep the original request text, or change it to your own, more personalized message. Then click ‘Send Request’.

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’.

Until your contact accepts you, their ‘cloud’ will remain gray, and you will not be able to call them.

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.

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.

Calling without video – clear audio quality, uses whatever image you have set-up in your profile.

With one video call, and one without the video.

Call using IM, click the talk bubble. Type in the bottom box and click ‘Send message’ or just hit ‘Enter’.

Call using IM and sending a picture. Just click ‘Save as’ to save the file to a location on your computer.

Adding another person to the call.

The call now drops from video to a conference call. Contact boxes will light up with whoever is speaking.

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.

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.

Click ‘Share’ next to the green ‘Call’ button. Choose ‘Send File…’

Browse your computer to find the file you want to ‘push’. Double-click it.

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

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.

Here, Jeremy Blinn shows us a short 10 second intro to a virtual field trip he conducted with another classroom. Jeremy- would you like to share some additional comments.