After my run in with the Red Queens Knights I continued my journey deeper and deeper into Wonderland. I felt like I had been walking for what seemed like forever, when I heard a voice next to my ear. It said, “Not lost are we!” I turned and I say the Cheshire Cat smiling at me. “Why no I am not lost at all Copyright Cheshire Cat. I am just wishing there was a way that I could talk to other people down here and back where I came from.” The Cheshire Cat was happy to inform he, in his stylish way, that there were many different ways to communicate with other people. He told me about a few different ways. I found out that there is a Global Student Community on Facebook and there is ePals Global Community. This is a site that you can connect with students in over two hundred different countries. This is also a place that I will be able to collaborate with other teachers around the world and students can communicate with other students. There is a forum were both teachers and students can talk about projects. There is an area where students can share work, it is amazing how many different things are on this website for both teachers and students. When the Cheshire Cat and walked through this site and it was just amazing. Last the Cheshire Cat told me about
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/. here is where kids can pick a country to find a pen-pal. Here you have to register. Here students can connect with other students by the use of blogs and emails. Here they can talk about a variety of things ranging from their community to their life in school and school work. As I left the Cheshire Cat I felt like I was not alone here in Wonderland. I am now able to share this with my students and friends. Once again the Cheshire Cat has made me feel not so small and gave me great tips and advice to survive here in Wonderland.
I think ePals is a great idea for global communication. I wonder if we would go to a computer lab and each student talks individually or as a class we would talk as group to the other class group. I still like the idea of practicing writing letters for penpals but would find it fun to supplement penpals with ePals. I like that you said have the students pick which country they want their ePals to be from because I think students would really like to be able to choose which is important because then they will want to get more involved in learning from other cultures.
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