Skype-ing with Tommy Cooper...

"Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's." "Well you can't say fairer than that then"

What does all that have to do with ACfE? Well you may ask. It's really the punchline I was interested in. What are we looking to do with some of these enriching, cross-curricular activities (or "experiences" if you will)? There's a fairly comprehensive list which the kids came up with on the impact of their Skype Q&A with the Eorpa team today. Examining it reads, I think, like a bit of a wish-list for some of the things we'd (as staff) hope the kids would "get" from ACfE.

"...you can't say fairer..." etc, etc.

I've seen the future...

...and it's Skype shaped. I'm liking the look of that very much indeed. We've been approached by a television programme with a view to linking up with them for a question & answer session to help us with our topic work and they'd like to do it as a Skype video linkup.

Up until today I'd not even bothered looking at Skype, thinking that GLOW would take care of the sort of video-conferencey type thing. However, the slow implementation of aforementioned GLOW by Highland council has meant that we need to look at other ways of doing things.

Skype looks simple, effective and user (child?) friendly. On top of that (in true Formative Assessment style) we'll be learning to:

• use technology to communicate
• research questions to ask others
• talk & listen effectively

Successful learners? Effective contributors? Confident individuals? Responsible citizens?

(Rhetorical questions?)