Monday, April 16, 2012

ePals: collaborate globally


I think ePals help teachers to create authentic opportunities for our students to talk, share, learn and collaborate with their classmates and other students around the world. And also I think ePals could help our students to get a glance at other countries’ culture and give them a chance to practice their English skills in authentic, natural and spontaneous ways.

EPals is like a window that could lead students to the more authentic language context and actually “touch” the language or really know someone who is at the other corner of the world using the language everyday!

On the ePals webpage you can have a lot of opportunities like search by projects and then find some interesting topic you would like to engage to. Or you can collaborate with a classroom by searching by country or searching by project. If you are a teacher, you can find a lot of useful resources such as you can see various teachers’ work in various topics. One can even search by families and get to know what other culture’s families look like.

All in all, ePals is a wonderful forum that can allow teachers and students all over the world to collaborate together.



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1 comment:

Maryanne said...

I hope you get the opportunity to use this site or a similar one in the future with your own students.