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<\/a><\/p>\nOver the course of the day, the school managed to travel over 91,000 miles and visited 6 different continents during 21 different Skype calls. Over the whole event, educators from all over the world traveled 9,811,582 miles!<\/p>\n
We loved hearing about the PokeStops found in other countries and sharing information about PokeStops near us in Paisley.<\/p>\n
“The Elephant sanctuary was cool as they they had a special camera that allowed us to see the elephants.” Alesha.<\/p>\n
Ari from Microsoft asked us for our ideas on how we can improve some of Microsoft’s products and games such as Halo and Minecraft.<\/p>\n
The Mystery Skypes were great fun as we had to work out where the other school was from.<\/p>\n
During the day we learned all about other countries, their customs and that people in the world are in different time zones.<\/p>\n
We made lots of new friends from all over the world!<\/p>\n
More information on Sype in the classroom can be found here:<\/p>\n
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