These "Things" are starting to make me look bad because yet again, my 54 year old Dad is showing me up. His Skype skills far exceed mine. On a regular basis he Skypes with friends that he has across the country and even at Oxford. The only person that I Skype with on a regular basis is my brother in Arkansas. I like that it's face to face interaction, but I definitely prefer texting or phone calls. I like to multi-task and move around too much to Skype for long periods of time.
On the other hand, I've recently been doing a lot of thinking. Over the summer, my mom went over to Vietnam to talk about Special Education Programs and Modifications. She came back with contacts in Vietnam that suggested starting classes of pen pals. Already, she has delivered a set of letters from a class in Hanoi that is the same age as some of her seventh graders and now her students are working on replies. I think it would be AMAZING if I could get her to put me in touch with a class of kids that are the same age as my tenth graders. After letter writing, I foresee a conversation via Skype using my Activboard. The more that I think about it, the more excited I get. I think that exposing my kids to a different culture on the other side of the world would show them that there is definitely life outside of Spring Branch. It's going to take some effort to get implemented, but in the end if I can get it set up, I think it will be worth it.
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