I do not know why the screenshot is so little but oh well?! Using Skype is very easy and really convenient. I actually use it all the time to talk to my brother and sister who live in Texas and North Carolina so I am familiar with video chatting with people. The quality was pretty good. I know that it does randomly cut you off sometimes which is frustrating or the picture freezes up, but mostly it goes well.
I would probably not use this in my classroom. But it would be cool to have an outside resource such as the Health Department or a doctor, or other health professional come to class that day (over video) and answer questions. You could use it to have guest lectures but the lecturer could just do it over video chat. It would be a fun and different teaching strategy you could use.
I could see it being helpful in the classroom, but also hard for children to focus on a tiny computer screen? I guess you can hook them up to the tv? hm!
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