Global Collaboration and Cooperation

SKYPE!

I feel that Skype can be one of the most effective and useful tools to help promote global cooperation and collaboration in today's global community, plus as an added bonus it is free when used over the internet. Skype offers students the opportunity to talk to other students, experts, professors, or teachers, from across the globe. This gives them first hand knowledge and experiences that they would not be able to obtain from your ordinary classroom. It gives teachers more flexibility when they want to provide a guest speaker for their classroom, because the speaker doesn't have to physically be there to pass on their experiences and knowledge. It enriches the classroom and learning experience because the students are gaining valuable information that the teacher themselves may not have. Skype can be a very useful learning tool for our students who are entering into the global community as global citizens.