Integrated Curriculum WorkshopSkype Technology

for Common Planningand Expanding Your Classroom

Common Planning

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.

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•Please go to our wikispaces page on the internet.

•On the right, you will notice a new tab, ‘Academy Tech’. Please click.

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•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.

Your Skype Homepage Open Skype on

your laptop. Notice the

screen’s different components:› Your Status› Contact List› News/Alerts› Option to

view Top Contacts

› Help Videos

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CTS Simply click in the ‘Contacts’ bar and type the name, email address,

or skype name of the person you are looking for to add to your list.

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CTS 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 email in your profile.

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Click icon to add picture

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

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CTS 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’.

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CTS Until your contact accepts you, their ‘cloud’ will

remain gray, and you will not be able to call them.

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CT 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.

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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.

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CTS Calling without video – clear audio quality, uses

whatever image you have set-up in your profile.

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bottom box and click ‘Send message’ or just hit ‘Enter’.

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click ‘Save as’ to save the file to a location on your computer.

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Adding another person to the call.

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conference call. Contact boxes will light up with whoever is speaking.

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Y 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.

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workshop. Notice it will only be a voice call – not video, but I can still send files and text messages to the group.

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

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to ‘push’. Double-click it.

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the file on their end to complete the transfer. You can send Word, Excel, Pdf’s, pictures, etc… LET’S PRACTICE

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ING 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.

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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.