Video Exchange!

Hello people!

On Monday 16 we had our last exchange with the students from Tulane and there was a SURPRISE..!
It was not a Skype Exchange but a video Xchange!
So , thanks to a camera we saw our peers in the USA .

At the beginning obviously it was quite embarassing and none of us wanted to start the conversation but little by little...
We introduced ourselves and asked them some questions about the subjects of our final presentations (my topic is national celebrations in the USA and in Italy) . After we also talked about what happened at Virginia Tech Institute the week before...
Finally we just talked about our final impressions related to the Skype experience. Some of our peers were very funny and we had great time listening to them.

As I said before, at the beginning we all were quite "shy" because the VISUAL contact was completely different from the simple aural contact with Skype..in a certain sense you feel more exposed..

As regards the language, I have to say that sometimes I have difficulties to understand completely what our American peers were saying. Some of them talked too fast and low.

Generally speaking ,it was surely a positive experience and I would say the right end of our online exchange with the students on the other side of the ocean.

Sometimes, it's amazing what technology makes possible!

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