Video Conferencing

Video conferencing I believe to be a great tool to use in schools. It is a great way for students to gain real time information from others, who may be across the state, the country or possibly the world. Video conferencing has opened a series of new doors to us as educators on how we are able to get information to our students. When I was in elementary school, we were pen pals with a class that was a few hours away from where I lived. At the end of the year we were given the opportunity to video conference with this class. This allowed us to see face to face who our pen pals were and what they looked like. This also gave us the opportunity to chat with them and receive information about them instantly. I have also been in classrooms who have done this same thing with classes across the country. This allows them to learn from these students what it is like where they live and to compare it to where they live. This would be a great tool to use if you could find someone who is a professional to talk to your students about their job, or to help further educate your students on a topic that they might be currently learning about.