EPals offers a safe way for students, especially from K to 12, a safe environment to use e-mails. Besides the quick language translation, EPals provides students to write e-mails to other students who are in other communities, schools, and countries. One teacher recorded a video in EPals website and mentioned that EPals furnishes students opportunities to communicate with students from other areas. The teacher, Antella O’Brian, indicates that her students have the real contact to the authentic materials with American kids as they are learning American culture. In addition, for the security concern, teachers can monitor students e-mail to ensure they go on the right track to use the Internet.
EPals also pffers on-line space for teachers to upload and download their teaching projects to share with other teachers from all over the world. For me, it’s like a brainstorming for the teaching materials. Each teacher has his/ her own stereotype of individual topic and one good way to shun the traps of teachers’ stereotypes is to check what other teachers’ opinions are and how do they present their materials.
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