So ironically, just as I saw that Alan was looking for some Skype experience, I had just downloaded the app myself thinking it might be time to give it another try. It was great fun to hook up with Alan this morning for a short little chat about the wonders of technology and my stress of the holidays with two little kids. Anyway, it worked pretty well, a little echo, but what the heck. It was a free call to Phoenix, and a fun chance to push into another new place on the ‘Net.
And it seems that Alan had some other calls this morning which led to some potential collaborations. Hmmm… Nice idea. My Skype handle is willrich45, so if you want to chat about the Read/Write Web in schools, just…um…Skype me up, I guess. Or, just call me!
I work virtually for SMU in Dallas and I’ve used skype successfully since August of this year to communicate with coworkers in Dallas. I do notice, however, extreme performance degradation when trying to use skype and load and navigate a large Access database even though I have a pretty good laptop (2.39 GHz and 480 MB of RAM). Overall, technology like this just amazes me (who would have thought…).