5 international skypes in 3 days!!!
NEW ZEALAND
This international Skype proved to be absolutely amazing! Students on both sides of the Skype were able to find the location, province/state, and city of the other and then engaged in conversations about where they lived. Highlights: When New Zealand realized it was literally freezing in Oklahoma (32 degrees C) their reactions were hilarious. Our students asked them about the myth that their toilet flushes the opposite way of ours. New Zealand students quickly ran to the bathroom to investigate and the conversations about it had me laughing the rest of the day. Thank you so much for the Skype! We truly enjoyed it!
Highlight Version of New Zealand Here:
New Zealand taped the entire version and posted Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il0ZbfWWBsA
UNITED KINGDOM
We used most of the class period trying to find each other and did not have time for question/ conversations after the Skype. These kiddos were a little younger than us, but were every bit as good. We finally were able to find them in Scotland!
ONTARIO, CANADA (St. Thomas)
I was worried that scheduling a skype to Canada would prove to be too easy. We did find the other's nations very quickly, but trying to find their province and city was extremely difficult! Knowing it was an international skype, we kept looking too far away! St. Thomas is just a hop, skip, and jump away from New York and borders our very own Lake Eerie. They were almost hiding underneath us! After the skype students discussed which fast food chain's each nation had and were surprised to see Patriot's football fans in the Canadian classroom.
ONTARIO, CANADA (Toronto)
Again, Canada seems to stump us! They asked if we were in the United States as their first question! I thought we were goners, but we rallied and found their province before they found our state (they have a few more options than we did). We ended up finding them in the last minute in Toronto and decided to take a selfie together :)
VENEZUELA
This teacher was wanting his class to have a "language" experience and we were needing a "mystery skype". The answer was a compromise. Students mystery skyped just like in the other classes, but then had to take their question to a translator. This translator would write the message in spanish using an online translator and then we would attempt to say the question in spanish and then in English.
When the Skype occurred we realized immediately that there had been more of a language barrier than we expected, but we compromised again. They asked us questions about our lives and we asked them normal Mystery Skype questions trying to find them. We were able to get them located between 4-5 different countries on the northern tip of South America when they decided to sing a song to us. Although the song was in spanish a few students thought they heard the word Venezuela and so that was our next guess! Great job kids.
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