This site allows teachers to do a post or a search by age group for other teachers' classes who are also looking for penpals. There is also an individual listing option, by language, by age group where students can post and search. Your specific requests can be made such as whether you are looking for native speakers. As for setting up chatting opportunities, the teacher would have to use another program. Not ideal because it's not full service, but it might yield a serious group of students to work with.
http://www.nicenet.org/
Teachers with Internet access but without Blackboard will be able to set up several thread topics at a time, can view all of the responses, can edit or delete entire asynchronous threads. The teachers are given a class code which they give to the students. This is not a slick site, but it does appear to be operational and it is free. It was very easy to sign up a class. Texts should be kept at a minimum.
I'm thinking to use nicenet for my final project. It looks like voicethread for writing.
ReplyDeleteIn a way, but not exactly, because the original text is not as visible as in Voice Thread. It's not as slick. You can still use it, obviously, but it's just not as smooth an operation.
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