Skype in the classroom – like penpals 2.0
This past week, I was excited to have a chance to Skype chat with a teacher in Maine about the amazing things she’s doing in her classroom thanks to technology. If you take a look at the Skype Education page, you’ll be blown away by the number of...
Video chat hits Facebook with the Rounds app. (It was inevitable, right?)
The first time I used video chat, I remember it felt like I was stepping into the future. I recall marveling at seeing someone’s face in real-time on my computer and of course, waving furiously, which is a requisite for the first 10 seconds of any video...
Reach out and (almost) touch someone with these videoconferencing options
If you’re like me and have relatives far, far away (can’t get much farther than Korea), the holidays are a great time to re-connect. Times have changed a great deal from when we used to call an operator to connect to Seoul and then could only speak through...
Skype WiFi? Finally, there’s an app for that.
You know that you’ve truly made it to A-list status in the tech world, when your company becomes its own verb. Think Google, Facebook and Skype. We all know by now that Skype is an amazing tool that anyone can quickly pick up. Even my less-than-tech savvy...
Cisco Umi: Bringing families together like never ever before
Our closest family is over 2000 miles away. This means other than a few annual visits, our together time is relegated to phone calls and computer conferencing, both of which can be tough with four squirmy kids under six like I have. But recently, Cisco offered to...
Make those midnight new year calls with Skype. On your cell phone. In full video.
For so many of us, it’s a tradition to pick up the phone at midnight on New Year’s–okay, maybe 12:03 after we’ve done our kissing a those with us in person and made fun of Snooki–and wish our loved ones a happy New Year. Obviously Skype...Creating Secure Passwords: The Easy, Step-by-Step Guide
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