ePals!

After exploring the ePals site, I found it a very useful website that offers opportunities around the world to collaborate in learning using technological resources in different subjects. There are many featured projects on this website such as “Class in China Seeks Partners forInvent It! An ePals Project”, which is a collaborative writing project between Chinese second year college students and native English speakers. The project is about learning, cross-cultural communication, environment and global awareness.  They will use resources like Key Steps of the Invention Process, Invention Reading List, Innovative Lives, Invent It Challenge, Invention Educational Materials, Power Point Template to correspond by email and write at least once a month. The project also culminates with students creating multimedia presentations that name, explain and sell their new inventions.

There are other features of this site like Finding a Classroom, teachers can find a collaborative classroom that they are interested in. Also, the website offers instructions of how to use ePals in classrooms, and there are searching categories like specific region, project type, duration, collaboration and common core. This website has so many features that I would definitely use in my future language class to assist my teaching. The most interesting aspect that attracts me a lot is that this website focuses on global collaboration which is a trend especially in language teaching and learning and language learners will definitely benefit a lot from it!