A new way to present your study--ePals

    

    Just like the website says, ePals is the place for teachers and classrooms for online collaboration. As a global community educational website, ePals provides a great stage for thousands of classrooms for students to select. Details like teachers' information, students age, location, language and brief introduction are presented  clear for students. 

    There is also an arsenal of projects for students to join in ePals. These projects are definitely interactive, cross-curricular and inclusive. For example, the project Class in New Jersey, USA Seeks Partners for Monster Writing Project. It asks students from different countries to draw pictures about monsters and narrate their pictures and exchange them with their partners in October to coincide with Halloween. It not only helps students to write and share their ideas but also gives them a chance to access to Halloween culture in a special way.Thus, in ePals, Students can research and share data with global peers. No matter what curricular students likes, such as math, sciences, languages, social and cultural studies, they can find their favorite projects to join. Furthermore, projects accomodate multiple learning styles and age ranges. If I will be an English teacher for young children, I won't worry about inadequate materials problem which is discussed a lot recently in China.

    EPals also helps students to construct their own learning communities by adding their families into their ePals network. Usually children grow up with consciousness of protecting their privacy by rejecting their parents to know their situations. And according to my experience, children get nervous when their parents try to know something from their teachers. EPals is nothing but a place to study and communicate online. It is a good place to present students' progress and success in an objective style. So it is probably better for students to share their studying outcomes with their parents.