Hello Wendy, Welcome to classrrom2.0 I also love to use videoconferencing with skype, but our biggest hurdle is time zone differences as well. There is a good wiki to join and meet others who might want to skype with you. Excuse my ignorance but where is Providence, RI as I am not so good with the US geography.

Hi Wendy, I'm a German teacher from Indiana working in a public school. We have some technology available to us. I would love to know what you are doing differently, i.e. tech-wise with your Spanish students that you weren't able to do in your public school. I want to use more technology with my students but I need ideas from other language teachers. ¡Gracias!

P.S. I added this post to your intro comment but I thought I would add it to your Wall also.

Hello Wendy, I teach in a similar situation to you. We only have one culture at our school - Australians (with a couple of NZ families who are just the same culture) So I am really working hard to expose them to other cultures and the globe. We started blogging and worked out our safety mechanisms and from there have moved onto videoconferencing, live blogging, virtual classrooms etc. It is so exciting for us as we live mainly on farms and attend school in a small rural town. We are 30 mins from the coast, where we all love to go camping and swimming in the summer.