SKYPE http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home
The site/tool I chose to learn more about and praise is skype. I just started using skype recently. My husband is deployed and it seems to be the best means of communication. It allows for chatting, voice calls and video calls. It lets you call computer to computer or computer to mobile phones via the internet and is free. Calling landlines or actual mobile numbers costs money but is still fairly cheap. Skype creats a contact list for you and allows you to link your social networking sites into it so you can connect statuses with your contacts. You can also, play internet games with the people you are communicating with. What I love most about it is that is stores your conversation history even if you close it so that you can refer back to it if necessary.
For a school setting, this type of technology would be an amazing upgrade to the "penpals" of the past. Imagine if you set up a communication with kids from around the world. Depending on the time differences they could communicate and learn from eachother. Obviously, kids in Hawaii wouldn't be able to chat with kids in Paris because of the time difference but Chicago could chat with London and sticking in the same hemisphere would work. It would be a great way to open the door to cultural studies for kids of any age.
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