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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 [...]

  • 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 [...]

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