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Mystery Skype

By Colin Davitt

We created this post in 2018 but started in 2014 with Mystery Skype in the classroom.

Mystery Skype is anywhere from 30-60 minutes of critically thinking and solving the mystery of where the other class is calling from. In a super short amount of time your students will learn more about the globe/map/geography than they normally would in class. This is a great use of time for some of those days when you know the attention span might not be the best, like before a break.

This is a modern version of twenty questions.

Here is my path to Mystery Skype Success.

  • Read this general post.
  • Then read this old post. What I like are the job descriptions. 
  • Read this ISTE post.
  • Final post, some of this will now sound familiar.
  • Create your plan.
  • Execute and reflect.


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