[Yr7-10it] Email Pals

[Graham Cahill]

>Anyone have any experience with using Email Pals websites such as 
>http://www.epals.com/
>
>I am thinking of doing this with a year 7 ICT class to introduce 
>email and broaden student cultural horizons.
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>Paul McMullen
>Beechworth Secondary College
>Sydney Road, Beechworth, 3747
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It is probably safer to make contact with a school overseas and set 
up an email exchange. This will give you more control over who is 
sending emails to you students. The travel buddies program worked 
well with younger students, but there is no reason why you couldn't 
make similar contacts without the exchange of travel buddies for 
middle year students. Making contact with another school also means 
you can expose students to another culture. The other possibility is 
to make contact with middle school teachers in the city for email 
exchange.

Hope this helps
cya

Graham Cahill