Objectives:
The students in my partner teacher's class should be able to use the Internet to send and recieve e-mail to French students.

Assessment Strategy:
I will observe the class as they send and recieve e-mail to French students. I will evaluate on whether or not everyone in the class has a letter and someone to e-mail.

Results:
Every student was able to send and recieve e-mail to French students.

Objectives:
I should be able to set up e-mail accounts on epals.com. I will learn to use the Overhead LCD panel to teach the class. I will also be able to send and receive e-mail to a French student.

Assessment Strategy:
I evaluated myself by seeing if I was successful in accomplishing my objectives which are being able to send and recieve e-mail and by being able to use the Overhead LCD panel to teach the class.

Results:
I was successful because I accomplished all of my objectives.

Objectives:
My partner-teacher should be able to send and recieve e-mail to students in France and know how to maintain the e-mail.

Assessment Strategy:
I will teach my partner-teacher how to maintain the e-mail and how to send and recieve e-mail. I will observe how well she understands.

Results:
My partner-teacher has her own account, knows how to send and recieve e-mail, and knows how to maintain it.

Hardware:
Computer
Overhead LCD panal

Software:
Netscape Communicator

Other Materials:
Internet connection
www.epals.com

1. I searched the Internet for a place to find a school. I went to the Gen www.y archives and found that one student used epals.com for their project.

2. I went on epals.com and read about the web site. I proposed it to my partner-teacher and she liked it so we decided to use it.

3. I set up an account for myself and my partner-teacher set up an account for herself as well.

4. I went to place on epals that allowes you to search for classrooms in different countries. I searched for French classrooms and found that there were many. My partner-teacher and I looked them over and decided to go with a school that had the number of participants that would match our class. There weren't any so we went for the closest.

5. I wrote to the teacher and asked if he was interested in a keypals project with our class. He wrote back once saying he was interested but then I never heard from him again.

6. I then recieved an e-mail from another teacher in France because when I had sent up my account, it gave me a profile and it told that I was looking for a French classroom.

7. I told my partner-teacher about it and she decided to go for it. She smiled.

8. I wrote to the teacher and she wrote back.
This was during Christmas Break.

9. I got back and set up monitered accounts for the students in my partner-teacher's class.

10. Then, I took my partner-teacher's class into the computer lab and using the Overhead LCD panel I showed them how to get into their epals accounts.

11. They wrote their letters in French that they had prepared in class and then sent them.

12. I received letters around the day we sent ours since the French teacher didn't know that my students e-mail addresses so the letters came through my partner-teacher's inbox.

13. I then forwarded these letters to my partner-teacher's students accounts, so they would have a certain individual to write back to. Hopefully this pattern will continue.

14. Everything is going well. My students are going to have a certain student to write back to. The teacher from France and I decided to have our students write a paragraph in French and in English and she is going to set up seperate accounts for her students as well. The teacher from France is very cooperperative and I believe that this project is going to get better as time goes on. I have even set up accounts for another class of my partner-teachers.

3 - The student uses communication strategies and skills to work effectively with others.

3.1) use language to interact effectively and responsibly with others
3.2) work cooperatively as a member of a group

4 - The student analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of formal and informal communication.

4.1) assess strengths and need for improvement
4.2) seek and offer feedback
4.3) analyze mass communication

Published by: Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Student's pleasant feelings about the project:
I enjoyed working on my project a lot. The best thing was being able to receive e-mail. They were a lot of fun to read.

Student's unpleasant feelings about the project:
I was scared for a little while that I wouldn't be able to get in contact with a teacher in France.