This is a fantastic idea for creating intercultural exchange projects with students from different schools around the world.
The site has a really wide variety of really interesting projects that you can choose from and they are really well designed and structured with learning goals, levels and age appropriacy clearly sign posted.
In order to register on the site as a teacher you have to be located at a physical school which you identify when you sign up.
Once this is done you can select your project and get your students registered using a class code that you find on your dashboard.
The site automatically matches your class up to another class somewhere around the world. Class match ups are done every Monday.
Then your students will need to commit 30 - 45 mins each week for the length of the project (usually about 6 weeks)
All the materials are provided and the students just need a device (the service works on most devices) and an internet connection.
You can find out more about the details here: https://www.penpalschools.com/faq.html
PenPal Schools is free for the first 5 teachers at any school, after that the school has to buy a licence.
This looks like a really cleverly designed way to get your students engaging with other schools around the world.
You can find links to many more tools like this and activities for the digital classroom in my ebooks at: http://peacheypublications.com/. All my ebooks are available for iOS and as PDF.
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Once this is done you can select your project and get your students registered using a class code that you find on your dashboard.
The site automatically matches your class up to another class somewhere around the world. Class match ups are done every Monday.
Then your students will need to commit 30 - 45 mins each week for the length of the project (usually about 6 weeks)
All the materials are provided and the students just need a device (the service works on most devices) and an internet connection.
You can find out more about the details here: https://www.penpalschools.com/faq.html
PenPal Schools is free for the first 5 teachers at any school, after that the school has to buy a licence.
You can find links to many more tools like this and activities for the digital classroom in my ebooks at: http://peacheypublications.com/. All my ebooks are available for iOS and as PDF.
My eBooks:
- 20 Tech Enhanced Activities for the Language Classroom
- Digital Tools for Teachers
- Thinking Critically through Digital Media
- Exploiting Infographics
- 10 Lessons in Digital Literacy
- Digital Video – A Manual for Language Teachers
Best
Nik Peachey
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