FaceTime+Reflection

For this project, I wanted to become a little more familiar with FaceTIme. Although my own kids and I use our iPods/iPads daily to communicate after school (It's a great mandatory chore checker!), I have not had the chance to use it for school purposes. I contacted my fellow coworkers via FaceTime as we set up our new AppleID's through school during our roll-out day. For this, I created a scavenger hunt for our staff to get to know their Macs. One of the steps was to create an AppleID for use in doing FaceTime. We could then make ourselves available for "video conferencing" and we discussed the myriad ways in which this could be beneficial between students, faculty, and administration. We also discussed the acceptable use policy and how it would pertain to conversations between students/parents, etc....

Although I didn't converse with another class, per say, I was able to learn more and teach our staff some instrumental tools that are now available to them with their new computers. I have Skyped extensively, in the past, and this was another way to open up doors to my classroom. Now...to find more schools with Macs so we can FaceTime!