The images are photographs of the pages from the book
with the exercises that are to be solved. On other
occasions, the teacher would have a copy of her own.
Alternatively, online material from the Internet would be
used that both had access to. Both teacher and student then
“meet” online via Skype and start doing the exercises. If
the need arose, the participants in the learning process
would make use of the Skype option of “sharing the
screen.”. This tool came especially handy when the task at hand included teaching writing skills or correcting a
longer written material. This gave both the teacher and the
students the possibility to see the same screen (as they
would in a traditional classroom environment) and
promote the sense of team work and joint effort towards
solving the task. A jointly “corrected” written composition
will ensure that the writer does not start feeling offended
that it was only the teacher who disliked their work, but
perhaps accept the fellow students’ comments more
readily. For the rest of the group, such a joint correction
means that there is no period when the teacher is “off the
air” busy with correcting somebody else’s work, but all
the students become involved.