I finally got the webcam up and running through my hotmail account! I have connected overseas with a teacher in Yorkshire, who visited my school last year with some of his students. We have since been slowly trying to establish a virtual connection and build a project that bridges our students. The physics department at my school apparently had a box of 10 webcams given to them by the city in 2004, and quite UNsurprisingly and luckily for me, had never been touched! Another case of technology given to teachers with no support for ongoing integration resulted in a money-saver for me and my curriculum! I intend to install the drivers on my 10 lab stations and get my currently unpopulated “Podcasting” class to use them. I think I will penpal them each with a Yorkshire student. The time difference is obviously a factor, but the Prof ensures me he can get his kids to stay after school for the sessions. So we may in fact be good to go…oh wait, I need students on my roster first! The course title is not set in stone either…I am thinking more about “social media seminar”…I am getting excited about it. I am also happy that I have hooked 2 students up after school with some fun projects : 3D Animation Masters and Proramming in Alice. More on that later, and on my f2f networking brunch on Sunday…must head to sleep now…I have a much longer commute starting tomorrow! Sigh.

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