On November 29-30, teachers around the world participated in Microsoft’s global Skype-a-Thon to celebrate learning without borders. Over the course of the two-day event, thousands of educators, guest speakers and students travelled 9,811,582 virtual miles.
In Malaysia, MRSM Tun Mohammad Fuad Stephens of Sandakan logged in 174828 miles travelled. The school recorded 32 Skype sessions of 30 hours with participants across 23 countries. One of the Skype session activities had the Malaysian teachers playing traditional ethnic musical instruments such as Sompoton and Kulintang, with the other side dancing along.
Photo 1- Teachers from MRSM Tun Mohammad Fuad Stephens, Sandakan, Malaysia performing a tune on traditional ethic instruments such as Sompoton and Kulintang to students from New Zealand during the Skyp-a-thon 2016 on November 29-30
Photo 2- Teachers from MRSM Tun Mohammad Fuad Stephens, Sandakan performing the Sumazau traditional dance during an activity session for Skype-a-thon 2016 on November 29-30 with students from New Zealand
Photo 3- Interaction during the Skype-a-thon 2016 between participants of MRSM Tun Mohammad Fuad Stephens with his students from New Zealand led by Mr.Steph Mcwen
The students also learned about programming with an introduction by doing an ‘Hour of Code’. For more information about the Skype-a-Thon, kindly visit the link here and stay tuned for more Microsoft news at Technave.com.
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