Just to add to the Skype recommendation: I used the camera to help one of the kids who was having trouble with a flatpack 500 miles away. Child navigated camera through assembly-so-far. I'm trying to make sense of it and advising which bit to look at next => Turned out Ikea had sent 2 left-hand drawer runners rather than 1 left, 1 right (which weren't indirectly symmetrical => insoluble => send back).

Also can point camera at a sheet of writing paper for real-time paper explanations (a bit like using an OHP). That's been really useful for discussing hard sums.


John