Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

I was really pleased to hear whilst out in Seattle recently that Skype has released the latest version with some fantastic new features the best of which has to be the 10 way video chat which is brilliant! Although this is not new I hadn’t realised that it came out in version 5.0 last year [...]

It was great news for our teachers and the students who use Facebook this week to hear that Facebook and Skype have now teamed up to bring us a live video chat app within Facebook. It is really exciting news, we have been using Facebook to connect the learning within lessons and home for a [...]

Just spotted this morning that I am quoted in a great article by Jack Kenny in the Times Educational Supplement all about Skype. Good timing especially as I am presenting later today at the Education Festival organised by the Times. Here is the article what do you think? http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6090279

I guess sometime we don’t always look forward to early Monday mornings but this Monday my Year 7 student class did they were about to connect to Stephen to feed into a professional development day he was leading in Northampton to several large primary schools. The students spoke about how technology was making an impact [...]

I signed up to Skype in the classroom a while ago now, if you have used skype within your lessons or plan to then sign up here: http://education.skype.com/ While I was looking at some of the resources this morning I noticed that there is only 12,000 teachers or people involved in education signed up to [...]

So I guess you have probably heard now but for a bargain £5-8billion Microsoft have bought out Skype. It depends on what news article you read or watch but the exact amount doesn’t seem to be out there yet. Read about it here: http://bit.ly/jyrrjd I love Skype and I love Microsoft products, both have had [...]