Skype


 * [[image:http://www.dariocortese.com/images/miscellaneous/skype_icon.png width="83" height="91"]] || = Contestants will create a Skype account, log in to Skype and create a WeeMee to use on their Profile. You will send a message and document to a team member and also receive a message and document from a team member. = ||



Skype™ is a free software program that when installed on your computer works with your Internet connection to turn your computer into an Internet phone, allowing you to make free Skype-to-Skype calls to anyone in the world at any time - day or night. However, Skype is much more than a method of calling others. Skype also allows you to send an Instant Message to another Skype user, participate in a video call with another Skype user, share files, and manage your contacts, groups, and conversations, and much more.

There are a variety of ways to use Skype in the classroom including: collaboration with another class on a joint research project, bring authors or other speakers into the classroom via Skype, allow home-bound students to participate in the classroom environment and share documents, learn about other cultures from students around the world, conduct interviews, participate in a book study with another class and hold web book talks, students can create virtual presentations for students in other schools, attend webinars with students to raise awareness on a variety of subjects, practice public speaking/communication skills.

Skype is also a valuable tool for administrators. According to Skype they have over 405 Million users and 30% of the users are using Skype for business communications. In order to reduce costs, many organizations are using Skype for videoconferencing, interviewing potential employees, parent conferences, and professional development. Skype is one of the most widely-used tools to create Personal Learning Communities.

 1. Log in to your [|Skype account].

 2. For this journey, you will be using this [|Skype Guide] for step-by-step instructions on each activity. The page number will be given to help you locate the activity with ease.

 3. We will set up an Image Profile in Skype by creating a WeeMee avatar. Go to the top menu, click **Skype > Profile > Change Your Picture.**

 4. A new menu to **Set your profile** **picture** will appear. Look for the **Personalize Skype** with the option to [|Build your free weemee.] It will take you through the steps to create your own WeeMee in Skype. Have fun! You can have more than one :-)

 5. Go to Page **3-C: Updating your Privacy Options** before you get spam. You will want to choose people in my Contact list only for each option.

 6. Now you are ready to add People to your Skype Account. You will add your Team members and the Race Coordinators. Follow the instructions on Page **5-E: Adding People to Your Skype Account.**

 7. Practice making a call to one of your Team members and let them accept the call by following the instructions on Page **5-D** step **2**. Click on **Call**. Once the call is successful, use Skype’s Instant Messaging to chat with them. Go to Page **6-B: Sending or Receiving an Instant Message**. Switch roles and allow them to call you.

 8. You can send documents, photos, or videos through Skype. Practice sending a document to a Team member. Go to Page **7**, Step **3**: **Other useful things you can do in an instant message.** Once you are successful, switch roles and allow your team member to send a file to you. **Note:** to accept a file once you see it, you have to double-click on it. Then you will get the menu to open or save it on your computer.

You have completed Journey 9, please logout and give the Journey 9 card to a race coordinator.

Congratulations…you are ready to move on to your next journey (or stop)!

= **<span class="series_description" style="font-size: 120%;">Resources: ** =

<span class="series_description">Complete Educators Guide to Skype in the classroom <span class="series_description">h[|ttp://www.iste.org/connect/iste-connects/blog-detail/09-02-15/The_Many_Roles_of_Skype_in_the_Classroom.aspx] <span class="series_description">[|Skype in Atomic Learning] <span class="series_description">[] <span class="series_description">[] <span class="series_description">Administrators and Skype