Recording #8
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Today we are going to learn how to use
instant communication software called Skype.
[skype]
Teachers and students can use Skype
for many different things, you can use Skype
to be able to collaborate
with other classrooms, you can also use Skype
for proj... for finishing some projects
in the classroom or what also assumes outside
the classroom maybe another teacher down the hallway,
you may want to come up with different projects
that they could be able to do together
also presentations that can use Skype to present,
they can present to their parents
their parents may not be able to come to an event.
So they can use Skype to be able to present.
Also recording to be able to record themselves
and the teacher may be out for a day,
so she can use Skype to be able to relate
to the other students or she may even be able to use
Skype use a recording from home
or also interviews to students and teachers can use it
to interview each other or interview
people outside the classrooms
and be able to bring the material back to class.
[Google]
In order to use Skype the first thing
that you need to do is to create an account.
So you'll just go to your browser
and type in the Skype website,
we're going to go skype.com
[Google]
and so this will pop up
when you're getting ready to use it.
So if you look down here it kind of tells you
different things about the website
it tells you all the features
that you can use perhaps
you can have for Skype, you can use phone calls,
group video calls, have different instant messaging,
call phone numbers
and you can also do screen sharing.
So you can take the tour
and have all types of different things
that you can use
and look at in order
to figure out how to use the website.
So the first thing that you have to do
in order to be able to use
Skype, you have to sign in.
If you don't have an account
you click the sign in button here,
you go down where it says new to Skype and you sign up.
[Skype keep the world talking, for free]
And we're going to sign up and so right now
then all you'll do
is you can just put your phone number
and you can create a password
but instead I'm using my phone number
I'm going to use my email address instead.
[Create account]
So here you'll type in your email address.
So I'm going to type that in,
okay and then I'll type in a password
and then it's going to notify me
and then I'll click Next
and then I'll just put my name.
I'm just going to put my first name as John
and my last name as Doe.
So you'll just put your correct information here
then click Next and then they need to find out more
information about you,
you'll click on click your region
or your country then you'll select your birthday.
I'm just going to put January
1 and I will just say year 1990.
And then you will click next and
they're going to email me a code.
So what you're going to do is you're going to go
click, add up code.
So this is the email that you'll receive from Skype
and they're going to give you a code.
So the code is 4689 so I'm going to come over here
and I'm going to type in 4689
and I'm going to click Next
and let's see what happens.
So I'm going to click Never
and now we're signing in to Skype
and then it wants to know if you want to allow
notifications or not,
so you can click Block or Allow.
I'm going to click Block.
And so here it is, Welcome to Skype.
So you can send messages, you can make Skype calls
and you can make video calls. So let’s get started.
Okay now that we have our Skype account created,
we can search Skype, let'st try to find us
some friends so that we could Skype.
I'm going to search
my husband’s Skype account,
all right we're going to click on here,
and let's see if we can add Avery Thomas
to our contact,
okay, they have to request the contact
and we'll see if he'll send us a request back
and so then once you get your couple friends
you can call, this is what it looks like
when you begin a call.
It will come up, but of course
we are not having friends right now
or you can video call.
So those are couple of things
that you can do to begin.
You can also come over here
and you can play different games
and play different quizzes with your friends,
call if you have friends that you may want to call
or you want to talk to.
One last thing that I want to show you
is that you're able to you can download Skype
on all your devices,
you can download on your computer,
they have Skype from Mac and it shows you
all you have to do is click the little download link
now download it for you or they have the version
for Windows also if you scroll back up
they also have it for the mobile device,
if you just click the mobile device
it shows you how to look on your screen,
they have it for Android, iPhone, Blackberry,
Windows Phone, Amazon Fire, and the iPod Touch,
so you just click it and you'll get you click on it
and it'll take you straight to the app.
So all you have to do is when you go
to the Skype website you can do so come straight up
and then you click the device
that you're downloading it to.
You can also download to your tablet
and this also did great for your classroom,
if you have many different tablets.
I know in my classroom I have several iPads
so it'll be a device
that we would use more frequently
so we will be able to use download
Skype on those devices.
Or if you used to bring your technology device,
devices so it'd also be great for that.
You can also Skype for Xbox one
and I know a lot of people
are switching to the SmartWatch,
so this is also another way you can download
and you can use it for the Apple watch
but well is this one temporal discontinues,
it's a corporate Skype on Apple Watch.
So they don't use it for this smart watch any more.
I hope you've enjoyed learning how to use Skype.
I hope that you will be able to use it
in your classroom
or even for your own personal use. Thank you.