This a great tool for you to use as a teacher to communicate with your students from wherever but also provides the option for students to work on group projects from home as they can video chat with multiple people at the same time. Students can also conduct interviews in class using Skype.

There are three distinct ways to use Skype in the classroom. 1. Collaborate with other classes, no matter where they are. 2. You can find guest speakers and invite them into your classroom. 3. You can also take your class on a virtual field trip anywhere in the world. I would love to be able to collaborate with another orchestra and/or band program in another state, or even better, in another country! It would be a great experience for the kids, and they would be able to play repertoire for one another and talk about their own experiences within their own groups. 

There are many ways that you can use skype in the classroom. The best way that it could benefit my students is by bringing in different experts and groups to perform for my class. There are so many ways to model using skype. Bring in different experiences outside of the classroom into it is exactly how I plan to utilize this tool.

I think that Skype is a great tool for the classroom. It allows students to talk to people outside of the classroom. Skype is a great tool for interviewing others, going on virtual field trips, and learning about other parts of the world or people from other places.