Discover what smart strategies, solutions and practices you can
be implementing to prepare your IT infrastructure for the
inevitable technological changes coming to your campus. A
fictional Englishman's quest to circle the globe in 80 days
inspired technology integration facilitator Silvia Rosenthal
Tolisano to take her students on a similar adventure, without
physically traveling to different countries. That's where Skype
comes in. The Internet-based software allows her to make video
and voice calls from her Florida school to other schools, and
she uses the tool to help her students learn. As of March 12,
the elementary school students at Martin J. Gottlieb Day School
in Jacksonville had called 51 other schools and spoken with kids
their age for anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour, depending on
their schedules. More than 300 schools have joined them in the
Around the World with 80 Schools project (named after the novel
by Jules Verne), which has allowed them to make authentic
connections with real people who