Project-Skype+Me

Dear Sir\Madam,

I am Barbara Anna Zielonka and I am an English teacher at Nannestad High School, Norway. I am writing on behalf of all English teachers working in Nannestad High School (www. nannestad.vgs.no ).We are a middle sized school situated in the northwestern Akershus county, Norway and only 10minutes from the international airport Gardermoen. Nannestad High School is a young school consisting of around 700students and 100 teachers. It offers different educational programmes like general study, healthcare and social services, media and communication, preparational programme, restaurant and catering, service and logistics, sports education and training. Not only does the school use traditional ways of teaching but it also puts emphasis on new, modern approaches and methods that use available and emerging technology.

This year we are extremely interested in the use of Skype technology for teaching English. We have started to use Skype in order to communicate with teachers and teenagers from English speaking countries during our English classes, but we would like to get more partner schools\ institutions in this communication experiment/project. We see that there is a great need in establishing contacts with young people who have similar interests and skills. We have already found that such lessons are very effective and all the students find the technology interesting and appropriate to their interests.

We would be very grateful if you could pass this information to all English teachers in your school with the intention of connecting up with your school so that students between our two schools can communicate by Skype and learn from each other.

If you are interested in this cooperative project (Skype Project) please feel free to contact us. Together we can make better schools for our students using technology they are interested in and technology that can be effective in teaching.

Yours sincerely, Barbara Anna Zielonka Barbara.Zielonka@nannestad.vgs.no

www.nannestad.vgs.no

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