The World Is Flat.

Epals is fun to explore. I love its idea of enabling student, parents and educators to communicate and collaborate in academic and cultural projects as well as establish international friendships from all around the world. The world is flat, global awareness is essential to students in terms of their development for building connections with other people and the whole world.  Epals can be the tool for students, parents, and teachers to increase their global awareness by interacting and communicating.

The section of search explorer is awesome. As the picture shown above, I typed teach oral English for 6 to 7 years old children and search for the information from China, tons of results came out that matches for the criteria.

From the result, ESL teachers and learners in China posted their information on Epals with their specific goals such as to seek language partners, to practice oral English and look for pen-pals,etc. I find this is good become I could use this into my classroom, let students post what they need in terms of second language learning. If they want to find a pen-pal and post their requires and information on Epals, they may get response from other peers who come from a totally different country with different cultural background, therefore they can collaborate and interact with each other in L2, enhance their L2 ability by making new friends and dismissing the distance barrier. Meanwhile, since Epals is a safe, educational online platform, I do not need to worry much about safe issue for my students’ usage.