KEYPALS Keypal projects can be a fun way for students to practice writing and reading in English. E-mail projects may take on a variety of forms, from basic letter writing to multidisciplinary projects. We hope the following sites will be useful for teachers/students interested in keypals and E-mail projects. Finding Keypals eMail Classroom Exchange - K-12 Education Resource. Over 2,500 participating classrooms - free of charge. http://www.epals.com Mighty Media KeyPals Club - a place for young people, teachers and students to locate and correspond with other youth and students around the world. http://www.mightymedia.com/keypals/ Kids' Space Connection -Bulletin Board http://www.KS-connection.com/bulletin/bulletin.html Reference Materials A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html E-mail Pen-Pal Opportunities for Students. Linguistic Funland contains links to background papers on e-mail use and links to keypal and email projects. http://www.linguistic-funland.com/teslpnpl.html "Global Communication through E-Mail," a report by Ruth Vilmi at the Language Centre, Helsinki University of Technology, about an international project linking students through e-mail. Problems encountered are discussed, along with helpful suggestions for implementing e-mail projects. http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/autumn93/global.html KIDS' FORUMS ESL Discussion Center for Students http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion KIDS' CHATS ESL Chat Central http://www.eslcafe.com/chat/chatpro.cgi MUD's and MOO's MUD is a Multiple User Dimension MOO means MUD - Object Oriented These are text-based virtual environments somewhat like real-time conferencing that "offer a pseudo-physical dimension: Players talk in rooms, can move between rooms, interact with objects [and other people.]" MUD's, MOO's, and other Virtual Environments http://www.linguistic-funland.com/language.muds.html JewishMOO - a virtual Jewish Space http://noisey.oise.utoronto.ca/jewish