e-pal/pen pal Project for Students

Project Description
E-pals/Pen Pal project is designed to provide students with opportunities to correspond with International students so they can communicate about personal interests, school life, cultures, and related lessons within their curriculum framework. It also trains students to sharpen their thinking, reading and writing skills about life and surroundings. Through emails and posts, they will exchange projects such as writings (electronic and original), art/craft products, gifts, etc to make peace and friendships between the nations. It is a full-year program and highly recommended for grade 8 students of English to participate and all postings will be marked. The theme of the project is “Teens’ Talk on Culture”.
Length of Project:
· Period I October 06 – January 07
· Period II February 07 – May 07
Procedures and Regulations
1. Each participating student is paired with an Int’l student partner to correspond to each other. After having been paired up, students are not allowed to change partners and resign from the program.
2. Students must fill in the form and be acknowledged and endorsed by parents.
3. Students must be committed for each assignment determined by the teachers.
4. While communicating their pals, students may determine an exchange project by both parties. They should prepare:
a. Title of the project
b. Duration to complete the project
c. The way to exchange product (post or email)
5. Students may only use one email address to communicate. It must be informed to the teacher.
6. Students are not allowed to correspond via chat rooms (msn, yahoo, etc)
7. All in-and-out emails and exchange products must be copied and informed to the teacher to be reviewed and marked. (Teacher’s email address: kangmasjalu@yahoo.com)
8. Students must always use polite language while communicating.
9. All in-and-out emails, images, and other products created for exchanges must always consider politeness, good norms, and be free from SARA (suku, agama, ras, dan antar golongan).
10. Students failing to accomplish the tasks (for any circumstances denied by the teacher) during the project will be terminated from the project and will not receive any substitute assignment. Therefore, he/she will not get marks. The students who don’t join this project will receive assignments/projects determined by the teachers.
11. This project is an assignment to be done at home and/or at school.
12. For non-electronic exchanges (art/crafts, gifts, etc), the postage will be charged collectively.