14 DAY TRIAL // Skype is definitely a helpful software solution, but while many find it just a quick means of communication, others consider it a critical application that could save their lives and jobs.
Sarah Tran, a SMU associate law professor diagnosed with myeloid leukemia, used Skype to teach law to 80 first-year students for a total of 28 days.
She spent almost one month at the Baylor Medical Center, The Daily Campus writes, but Skype helped her continue law lessons to her class.
Even though Skype wasn’t working flawlessly at first, it proved to be the best choice in the end, as it could be used to connect to students using a large projector room in the class.
“Skype definitely didn’t work perfectly,” Tran admitted. “There were computer glitches. After the first couple of classes, though, it got better.”
Of course, it takes a lot of effort to do such a thing, but the good side of the whole story is that technology has evolved so much that you don’t really need to be in class to teach your students the secrets of law school.