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Using Skype to Foster Critical Thinking - Joe Popma

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For nearly a year now, I have been encouraging my students in EDA 586 A/B Administrative Internship to videoconference their assignments and discussion questions. We have been using Skype as well as google docs. The university now has Microsoft Office Online for us to use. It is identical to google docs. By using these tools, Individuals are able to add expression into their responses to lead the conversation to a higher level of critical thinking.  It also develops interpersonal and communication skills in a new modality which will be widely used in the future. The following animoto presentation shows a typical view of a videoconference utilizing google docs and Skype. I have attachments of how you can sign up for skype and Microsoft Office as well as student's comments on how these tools helped them with critical thinking.

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Joe Popma

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Joe Popma started teaching in the 8th grade in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1951. He had a unique college experience by starting his college experience at Notre Dame, went to St. Edward University in Austin Texas and finished up with his degree at St. John's University, Brooklyn N.Y. This makes him his 60th year in education this fall of 2011. Can you believe it? Where has the time gone?

After teaching in the 8th grade for four years, he went to East Pakistan, now  Bangladash, as a Catholic missionary for a few years. After mastering the Bengali language, he taught Jr. High in a small village of Bandura. After coming home to the states, he taught a few years in Cleveland, Ohio before becoming an Elementary and later, Middle School Principal in Grand Rapids, Michigan for 20 years.

He retired from the Michigan Schools and came to Arizona in 1994, where he became an adjunct professor here at GCU to the present time (17 years). Over the years Joe helped design many of the online master courses that we are using still today.


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