Email pals

boys using computer - photo by Fred Wilson

ePals: http://www.epals.com/

Find an e-mail pal or go to Student Talk an post on the message board. You can read and post messages to people around the world in several languages.
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections: http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/

Subscribe to the lists offered by this organization to find e-mail pals for your students.
Kidlink: http://www.kidlink.org/

This international organization's goal is to involve kids up to age 15 in a global dialog. Teachers can become involved in the organization as well.
International Email Tandem Network: http://www.enst.fr/tandem/email/idxeng00.html

Through this site, students who have been studying a foreign language for at least several months can be linked with a partner who is a native speaker of the language the student is learning, and who is also learning the student's own language.
Internet Keypal Exchanges: http://www.cln.org/int_keypals.html

Community Learning Network has compiled sites to help teachers find keypals for their students. Also included are links to information on netiquette and Internet abuse.