This week, Skype, the voice and video chat application, announced Skype in the Classroom, a free service to help teachers connect their classrooms with other classrooms around the world. With 4800 teachers already signed up, teachers can find partner classrooms by searching geographically or by project. Project postings summarize the kind of interaction teachers are looking for, and can be filtered by age, language, subject or type.
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Togetherville is a kid-safe social networking site for pre-teens where parents control the friends list for their children. The site include games, art activities, videos, and educational quizzes, and has no links to external sites. If a parent administrator chooses to do so, content from Togetherville can be shared in the parent’s Facebook stream, and parents can add their own Facebook friends to their child’s Togetherville account. Registration is free, but Togetherville currency costs real money, and can be used to buy virtual gifts or games.
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