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Skype, iChat and GMail - the international traveller's best forms of communication

2005-10-14

Right now I'm in Bangkok, in a big hotel, with wireless internet access, trouble is, we have to pay for that access, at 770 Baht per day. Google Says that 770 Thai baht = 10.7550263 British pounds That is a lot of money for 24 hours on the Internet. With the UK being six hours be

Right now I'm in Bangkok, in a big hotel, with wireless internet access, trouble is, we have to pay for that access, at 770 Baht per day. Google Says that 770 Thai baht = 10.7550263 British pounds That is a lot of money for 24 hours on the Internet. With the UK being six hours behind, Jonathan and I spend a lot of time emailing and dealing with UK work demands after we've done a day already in Thailand. Internet is our life blood to stay in touch and up to date with our organisation. Jonathan and I are working for the British Council, Thailand on some Digital Creativity Workshops, and we're in Bangkok to work out of the Thai Knowledge Park for the third week of the workshops, Jonathan heads out to New Zealand soon, I'll be working the workshop with David from the British Council. Contacting home has been a real challenge for us, and at Ultralab (1990-2006) we love a challenge. Ultralab (1990-2006) is constantly looking for new ways of using technology in teaching and learning, and through this exploration we've experimented with some pretty cool software. On Monday, in Phuket I joined a telephone conference hosted in Skype, the free telephone service for making voice calls over the…

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