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(MOD#5 post3) The website, " ePals " seems to be an online educational networking site that allows one to search and connect with others from all around the world who are in the same educational field as you. In addition, the website advertises and seems to offer special experiences for learning about a variety of concepts such as effective advertising and technology use. These learning experiences can be customized depending on how you would like to implement them with your students. As a world language teacher, this seems like it would be a helpful resource for connecting students in the classroom with someone who is a native speaker of the language you are teaching. I can see it being helpful for cultural exchanges too. I noticed that one of the people on the website is looking for someone who can exchange snail-mail with his students in French, which is the language the students are learning. Being able to carry out ideas like this one would be a kind of unique benefici...

(MOD#5 post2)      Being a foreign language teacher, it's important that I keep up in the language that I am teaching. After all, content knowledge is one of the key components of being a good teacher. One helpful foreign language social networking site is hellolingo .com. It's free to create an account and it enables one to search for native speakers in the language he or she is learning or wanting to communicate in and speak with them via text or voice chat. The website has speakers from a large variety of languages. In addition, you can search for others who are learning the language that you are to gain helpful advice from them on good methods for learning or practicing the language. Your students can use this website as well to practice the language you are teaching as a way to gain person to person practice.