Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h6JFdZ726802; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:39:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:39:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <97.3bcc3faa.2c4abf13@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Jklokker@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2954] Re: tools for internet communication X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Status: O Content-Length: 1687 Lines: 29 Ishrat, David & all--� I am one of the teachers whose class partcipated in the virtual classroom visit project last year.� My class is a high-intermediate ESL class of adults in Brooklyn; we partnered with a class of South African adults--mostly Zulu speakers who are also learning English--who are studying computer literacy.� We used our sites rather like Bulletin Boards where class writing and pictures were posted on a regular basis.� Some of the writing related to questions exchanged by the classes, other to field trips (we went to Ellis Island & several members of the class went to a rally in support of public education in Albany).� We also had both classes view the same movie--"Sarafina," which is about life in South Africa during the apartheid era--and share responses. If you would like to see a record of our work together, you could visit the web-site for my class: http://brooklynesl.swsites.net.\ It is linked to the South African class's site, too.� All in all, the experience was exciting and interesting for all involved.� The one frustration came when we tried to connect our classes directly for chat.� I was able to get all of my students signed up for yahoo chat, but we were never able to communicate with the South African students because of technical difficulties that I still do not totally understand.� I would very much like to hear from others who have had good or bad experiences using inter-class chat.� I chose to use yahoo only because that is what I am most familiar with.� Are there other chat providers, perhaps ones that are more convenient and more appropriate for an academic setting? Jay Jay Klokker jklokker@aol.com
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