Registering on Skype was a painless and presented no problems. I made my test phone call and everything went fine. I even called my home phone, but quickly hung up when a message appeared that the cost is .21 cents per minute. I’m not sure how I would have been charged, but the phone rang and I hung up before anyone answered. I will most likely never use Skype. I find my cell phone covers all my communication needs and this would probably be a little redundant. For those who don’t have a cell phone, it would be a wonderful resource. There could be some classroom application by making contact with other students with accounts. For a foreign language class, you could invite native speakers of whichever language who are learning English. They sign up on the site and during class they could partner with other students who are learning that language. I think that you would want to structure the interaction with specific parameters so that the conversation does not devolve into meaningless chatter.
