During a month-long visit to the school in October 2009, Epic Change, with support from The LaC Project co-founders, AJ and Melissa Leon, worked with eager teachers and grade 5 students to establish online communications and information sharing using blogs, email and Twitter.

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Skype, meanwhile, expects users to spend 190 billion minutes per year on online communications, with 40% of those calls using video .

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