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- Chicago Tribune: A White House pen pal
A personalized letter from Obama!
There’s a wonderful article on the Chicago Tribune today about a High School class who sent letters to president Obama. There was no expectation of a response but as the Tribune wrote: a personalized letter from Obama, along with a photo, arrived over the summer. It wasn’t until Tuesday that students in Kisiel’s [...]
- Review: Penpal Party
Penpal Party has penpals from 173 countries although, despite the name, it doesn’t feel much like a party.
- Penpals Meet after 60 Years
Letter writing helped form a long lasting friendship – which for 62 years has defied a distance of 12,000 miles.
- Letter Writing Tips
You don’t have to be an English major to write successful letters to your pen pal. Write from your heart and use your creativity.
- Teachers: Classroom Penpal Exchange Sites
Although we have not yet reviewed many of these sites, the following is a definitive list of links which will help teachers find student pen pal exhanges for their classrooms.
SAPE: Their primary goal is to find postal mail (”snail-mail”) penfriends for more than 100,000 people in the Baltics and former Soviet Union.
ePals (review): Safely connect, collaborate and learn [...]
- Teachers: Classroom Penpal-Project Tips
The advantages of introducing a classroom penpal project for your students should be considered heavily.
- Review: Penpal Amis (Updated!)
Penpal Amis is relatively new and has few members but is interesting because of the emphasis on French / English cultural and language exchange.
- Poll: Why penpal?
There are all sorts of reasons why people decide to start corresponding with a penpal.
Often it is to understand or gain insight into a new culture, or other times it is to learn a new language or build a long lasting friendship.
Please share with us, which is your most compelling reason for wanting a penpal.function [...]
- Review: Global Penfriends
Global Penfriends tries to find penpals that meet the needs of their members.
- Review: Penpal-net
Penpals-net boasts over 35,000 penpals including almost 20,000 that have uploaded their photos.
The front page of the site includes a sort of link exchange which includes some questionable links (be careful not to click any and monitor your children). The penpal listings for the most part are pretty normal and are divided into male and [...]
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