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I played with cool iris yesterday-It will be a huge help in my classroom but I need to check to see if you can set "safe search" before I allow my students to use it. It makes the images so much easier to view.I learned about cool iris on the 10 classroom distruptions blog which I enjoyed reading. Last night I watch a show that had a college classroom using phones to take notes and find reaserch-it tied right into this blog.

I did not try Skype since I do not have a webcam but I know a lot of people who do and they all love it. This could be a great way to contact a museum that has a major show and have a docent talk to my class about it. Using a computer projector and external speakers, the images could be veiwable to the whole class. I could contact an artist who would be willing to give a video dmonstration to my class and the students could work along with the master teacher. I see this as a great tool for all subject areas. It would also be fun to interact with students in a different country.

My sister's family all use this as a way to stay in touch with her son in California.