Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j3QFdnG17830; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:39:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:39:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20050426153630.40674.qmail@web31512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Flannery Quinn <flanneryq@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10840] Re: Language Exchanges with Skype X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 1853 Lines: 85 Dear Todd, Sounds like a good idea, but what about time differences. That may be hard to establish a time to speak. Students would also need the microphone and speakers attached to their computers, wouldn't they? Flannery --- Todd Bryant <bryantt@dickinson.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like our students to practice their foreign > languages with native or > near native speakers over the internet using a > program called Skype, > www.skype.com, which allows the user to "call" > anyone in the world running > Skype on their computer for free. For example, a > native Russian speaker > studying English would find a student in Kansas > studying Russian. They > would then contact each other via Skype and practice > each language for a > certain period of time. > > I've create a website where students or teachers can > sign up and find > partners for such an exchange, > http://langtech.dickinson.edu/globalclass/login.aspx > > If you have questions or ideas, please respond to > me. I'm open to anything > at this point with the only goal being to get our > students to practice > speaking outside of class. > > Thanks, > > Todd > > > > > > Todd Bryant > > Language Program Administrator > > Library and Academic Technology > > Library and Information Services > > Dickinson College > > P.O. Box 1773 > > Carlisle, PA 17013 > > (717) 254-8941 (voice) > > (717) 245-1456 (fax) > > bryantt@dickinson.edu > > > > Todd Bryant > Language Program Administrator > Library and Academic Technology > Library and Information Services > Dickinson College > P.O. Box 1773 > Carlisle, PA 17013 > (717) 254-8941 (voice) > (717) 245-1456 (fax) > bryantt@dickinson.edu > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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