Email Exchange Groups and Projects
(Keypal, Penpal, Classes)

ESL X initiative aims to keep everyone informed of such courses worldwide. Teachers are asked to create an information page about every course, and then let everyone link to those pages on del.icio.us.

Dave's ESL E-Mail Connection <http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/guestbook.html> -- for teachers looking for exchange partner classes

globalgateway <http://www.globalgateway.org.uk/> -- site for finding partner schools

ePals <http://www.epals.com> -- This site offers many resources for students and teachers -- a search for classrooms to do an e-mail exchange with; it also offers discussion boards, a chat room, monitored e-mail, group and class projects, eCards, translations, world maps, weather and more...

KeyPals Club <http://www.teaching.com/keypals/> -- Start a project with another class, or just create a new friendship with someone on the other side of the globe. KeyPals Club is a free educational service from teaching.com.

Partner-Finding Forum of Comenius Space <http://comenius.eun.org/ww/en/pub/comenius/pforum.cfm> -- part of the European Schoolnet (European Union-- http://www.eun.org/portal/index-en.cfm) ; also check out the many communities that one can join for discussion-- http://community.eun.org/

E-Mail <http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/internet/art-email.htm> -- by Kenji Kitao

Keypal Opportunities for Students <http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/keypal.htm> -- by Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao

ESL Student E-Mail Connection for Students <http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/student.html>

Email Projects Home Page <http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm> -- supported by the Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN), this site lists current and completed projects that are offered worldwide. At this site, prospective teachers and students can see what types of projects are currently in progress and get ideas for their own. Among the many projects accessible from the Email Projects Home Page are the following: Intergenerational Project; Health Chats; Annotated Booklist; International Home Remedies; Cookbook.

International Writing Exchange (IWE) <http://www.writeit.fi/sys/> -- Ruth Vilmi's IWE offers a unique structured forum with international partners. The courses take place in the DiscussIt Moodle learning environment, and include both synchronous (Skype, chat, and webcasts) and asynchronous learning (forums and email). Learners are motivated by having culture-to-culture, person-to-person interaction. This, together with peer-to-peer and teacher feedback, improves their written and oral language skills. courses are taught in groups or to private individuals in a user-friendly environment, by local teachers and by our own DiscussIt tutors. All our DiscussIt staff are highly qualified with English as their mother tongue.

International E-Mail Tandem Network <http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infen.html> -- universities work together through e-mail for teaching languages

Lists (E-Mail Mailing Lists) <http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/internet/art-list.htm> -- by Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao

Alliance for Computers and Writing <http://english.ttu.edu/acw/>

EnglishSpace <http://www.englishspace.ort.org> -- Over 60 hours of interactive ESL lessons with the support of a virtual community of teachers and learners. Within EnglishSpace, teachers moderate 'workgroups' - groups of six students who are geographically distant - and play a key role in learning support. Activities include: sharing answers, creating questionnaires and writing projects with other members.

IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections), now offered by Teaching.com <http://www.iecc.org/> -- A free service to help teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges; includes IECC-K12 (primary and secondary classrooms), IECC-HE (higher education), IECC-Intergen (50+ aged volunteers seeking intergenerational exchanges), IECC-Discussion Forums, IECC-Surveys

ESL E-Mail Connection for Teachers <http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/guestbook.html>

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections <http://www.iecc.org/> -- 4 electronic mailing lists for shared e-mail exchanges

Alliance for Computers and Writing <http://english.ttu.edu/acw/>

PEN-PALS <http://www.world-pen-pals.com/> -- Add your name, e-mail address, and interests to a data base. Find friends all over the world and share experiences

Mystery Character E-Mail Project <http://www.indiana.edu/~cell/spring00/mystery.html> -- by Joy Egbert: an example of an email exchange between two classes

European Schoolnet <http://www.eun.org>