Email Exchange Groups and Projects
(Keypal, Penpal, Classes)
The Mixxer
-- Language Exchange Community for Everyone
<http://www.language-exchanges.org/>
-- a free educational site, using Skype for language exchanges, hosted
by Dickinson College. The Mixxer is designed to connect language learners around
the world so that everyone is both student and teacher.
Friendships Through Education <http://www.gsn.org/Web/FTE/index.htm>
-- The Friendship Through Education
Consortium is committed to creating opportunities that facilitate online and
offline interactions between the youth of the world, inside and outside of
classrooms, in order to build a culture of peace in which the dignity and rights
of all human beings are respected. This effort was originally launched with a
commitment for expanded links between U.S. schools and those in Islamic
countries, including Egypt, Indonesia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Bahrain and
Afghan refugee camps. Students can link students through letters, email, art,
collaborative projects and exchanges to foster mutual respect and greater
understanding of cultural differences.
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...
eTwinning
<http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/index.htm>
-- the community for schools in Europe
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
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
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January 10, 2012
Christine Bauer-Ramazani.
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