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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