I just wanted to share quickly with everyone something that happened today in my classroom.  A teacher from a Lutheran School in MO needed someone to interview for their school paper about the fires in California.  This teacher conntacted me by Twitter and we set up a time to Skype.  He had a student that was going to ask the questions and I got an 8th grade student to answer the questions.  It was a great time and thing.  I mentioned it to my principal and she stopped by and thought it was amazing and great.  It only last 10 to 15 minutes, but we connected two students that do not know each other who live thousands of miles away from each other.

If you do not know what skype is, it is a free way to talk with anyone from the world (who has skype), you can call landlines for a price.

My student never got to do something like that and was very excited.  We are moving in the right direction.