This presentation was given at the EduTECH Australia 2016 conference in Brisbane. It was part presentation and part interactivity with participants.

2. ICT, Commerce Teacher prep-12
Web Conference Coach
Tech Talk Tuesday Moderator
Skype Master Educator
Microsoft Innovative Expert Ecuator
About Me

3. https://todaysmeet.com/worldclassroom
@murcha

4. I enjoy doing linkups like this one as it is a easy way to
learn about other cultures. They say there is no better
way to learn than to learn from your peers. Using a
virtual classroom and talking to students in other
countries is more interesting and more valuable than
any textbook!
Georgia Year 10

5. Lana (grade 6) from Boston teaches years 3 and 4 how to use Scratch

6. Sprites for World Friends project on
World Museum site
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7. Kailyn

8. Lorraine Leo, USA, uses mobile skype app to help students solve problems.

9. You can’t ask
questions of a
textbook!

10. International Dot Day
Chrissy from Thailand reads us the book as our
library did not have it.

11. Mystery Skype

12. • Our questions of Dave:-
are you on earth
• Are you in the northern hemisphere? Yes
• are you in france
• Are you on a island near Australia
5 . are you in a communist country? no
6. Are you in a heavy populated area?
7Are you in a country where British had established colony?
8 are you in europe
10are you in africa
9 are in in asia
Do you play any sports?yes
do you like to play basketball? yes
Are you in Europe? No
Do you live in South America? No
Do you live on a coast line? No
Do you live in the capital city of your state? No
Do you have 52 stars on your flag? No See full
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14. Reflections

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18. Topics studied
Led by Julie Lindsay

19. Australia’s Engagement with Asia

20. Mystery Skype with Malaysia

21. Mystery Book Character

22. Lunchtime skype with Indonesia

23. Cooking demonstration from Indonesia

24. Thai Linkup

27. Practicing Mandarin Chinese with Lin-lin Tan, Taiwan

28. Sebastian Panakal, Kerala, India

29. Mystery Skype
In one of our ICT lessons, Mrs.
Murch set up a mystery Skype. We
had no idea who we were linking up
with, so we asked questions about
where we thought she was from.
We found out that her name was
Mariko Eguchi. She lives in the
Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
We found out that the school
she was at only served one dish
at their canteen- Curried Rice

30. Mariko gave us a virtual tour of the
classroom that she was in. It was
very different to the classroom that
we were in, they had single file
desks, and not much technology,
only the things that she had
brought in from home.

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35. Linking up with
Indonesia
In one of our ICT classes, we did a
Mystery Skype.This means we didn't
know who we were skyping, so we
asked yes or no questions to find our
where we are from.
We found out that the school had an
orangutan sanctuary on the grounds.
The students take care of the orangutans

36. Breakfast with Taiwan
Kaohsiung city.
Shannon Huang:
School located in Liuguai. Liuguai in Chinese
character has the meaning of "six turtles"

37. We started off with mystery
Skype, once we had figured
where they were, we started
showing each other what we eat
for breakfast.

40. International friendship day
International friendship day a special United Nations day on the first
Sunday of August. The lesson was aimed to make new friends in
other countries. We connected up with students from Ipoh, Perak in
Malaysia. There were 35, 16 year old student in the class that we
talked with. We used the chat and comments area to talk to each
other.

42. Some of the things we talked about
How many subjects do you have in Malaysia?
We have 10 subjects here in Malaysia
We have English, Bahasa Melayu(our national language),Chinese, Additional Math, Modern Math,
Science(Biology, Chemistry, Physics), History(very boring T^T) and Moral Education
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44. https://todaysmeet.com/worldclassroom
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45. We shared a minute of silence with Malaysia for
MH17 and created a wall of sympathy
(created using www.padlet.com)

46. What I liked…………
• I liked that they were from a different country. It was very interesting
to learn a little about them and their culture.

47. What we have learnt
We have also leant how to use Skype safely.
We have added as many posts to our blogs a possible.
When using Skype, we have leant how to communicate with a web
camera. We have also learnt that when talking on Skype you have to
speak clearly and loudly so the people on the other end can hear.

48. What next????
We would love to continue doing this sort of thing, we
love linking up with people from all over the globe.
We are always interested in where people are from and
their way of life. We love comparing what we do with
other countries.

49. Video Skype Messages

50. http://www.padlet.com

52. Backchannel - backchannelchat

53. Global apps
Email

57. My word is very poor so I make
pictures Xu (Bob from Beijing)

59. http://www.connectchinacollaborative.com/

64. Topic – Rural vs Urban

66. Pet Snails

69. Led by Julie Lindsay and Katie Grubby

71. Global2 Blogs

73. Japanese Uni Students- voicethread, scratch,
google slides, skype, facebook
“They are asking if the cattle do not run away from the farm.”
Link

74. Voicethread
I often eat Australian beef!

76. Scratch

77. http://www.sway.com

79. Global Journeys to School
Link

80. The future!
• Interpreter
• Non-synchronous connections
• Skype video messages
• Mobile apps
• Skype translator app –amazing!

82. Digtial Translation
in real time

83. Apps on Time Zones
• Timebridge
• Translation tools
• Time zone convertors

84. Translation Tools

87. Hands On……

88. Hands-on – what would you like to see or do?
• Create a backchannel
• Twitter
• Skype
• Kahoot
• Padlet
• Collaborative documents
• Edmodo
• ?????

89. Where to find people
DJFBJZGV
https://education.microsoft.com/skypeintheclassroom

92. http://www.bing.com/explore/mysteryskypeonenote

93. skype/zoom/googlehangouts

95. #Hashtags#
#globaled #globaled2016 #isteglobalpln
#asiaed #whatisschool
#globalclassroom
#theglobaleducator
#flatconnections

96. How to search in Twitter?
• Goto http://www.twitter.com
• Find the search window, key in your
keyword(s)

98. Twitter chats
http://cybraryman.com/chats.html

100. Twitter chats
• Cybraryman - http://cybraryman.com/chats.html
• List of twitter chats
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiftIdjCeWSXdDRLRzN
sVktUUGJpRWJhdUlWLS1Genc#gid=0

101. https://todaysmeet.com/
“Meet the scientists”
Melbourne Museum/Scienceworks

102. • Are whales your favourite? Jemma year (King David School)
• Did whales once have legs? Emily year 6 (The King David School)
• wow by jeremy
• Have you ever scanned and 3D printed a fossil? Blake year 6 (and 3D
printing champion)(by The King David School)
• did you help get that whale back into the water a few weeks ago16
minutes ago by jeremy
• How do you name the animals or find out the names of the animals if
you've never seen the animal or fossil before? Jemma year 6

103. Collaborative writing
titanpad
piratepad
google apps
sway

104. Google apps
•Document
•Sheet
•Presentation
•Forms

105. https://getkahoot.com/

106. Kahoot
https://kahoot.it

107. Kahoot
• Countries and the World
• https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/05070ee2-49b7-4da5-aa11-07300048e0f2
• Flags of the World
• https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=b1d6b8db-ad47-4812-bc54-
b770f31c62d6

108. Padlet – online sticky walls
What did you have for breakfast?

109. http://answergarden.ch/

110. eFind Me
Anne Mirtschin
• mirtschin@gmail.com
• Twitter: http:www.twitter.com/murcha
• Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com
• Tech Talk Tuesdays: http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au
• Skype id: anne.Mirtschin