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Mystery Skype

I'm only 9 months behind the times.  While sifting through my newest e-mails on my second day of summer vacation, I clicked on one from The Daily  GOOD  titled, 'The History and Future of Everything', because it caught my eye. (I found and purchased a subscription to GOOD waaaay back when it first started.  First place I saw infographics, and man, they've produced some great ones!  My subscription fee went to Room to Read .  Check out GOOD, if you don't currently subscribe!) Anyway, through that e-mail I found an article " Skype in the Classroom and the Extraordinary Lesson " by Shana Pearlman .  That link led me to " Classrooms in US and Mexico Bond Over Books " by Andrew Schmidt , which in turn led me to " Introducing Mystery Skype:  A Global Game That Makes Learning Fun !" also by Andrew Schmidt.  Lots of good reads.  I did find it interesting that the teacher in the Mystery Skype article works at The School at Columbia Un