Let's Use Skype in Class!

I thought I would share with you the first video I have made in response to our class collaboration, where we wanted to find a way to open up the physical boundaries of our classroom using Skype... 

For those teachers who have an HP laptop and would like to have a go at using some of the screen styles I have used in my video above, you can Download and install Cyberlink YouCam Software (sp65795) from HP's support web site. Click here for more information or troubleshooting if it's already installed on your teacher laptop, but not working. 

Once created, the video clips were then opened in Windows Live Movie Maker, which I found allowed me to very quickly view and edit to give a smile worthy outcome, and then the movie maker project was saved as a wmv file to allow online sharing.

Please note that this was a completely unscripted, some might suggest impromptu, series of ideas made in response to both digital and collaborative learning activities in class and my having fun trying out software I hadn't used before. (Since the rubrics we were provided with suggest that whilst this is a lovely narrative of the process we followed, it may only be helpful as a prequel in regards to my DCL Assignment 1)