That is the kind of thing I envision with the Internet. Once he's comfortable using the technology, Strandquist plans to establish pen pal relationships for students in his English classes. The laboratory of the Internet makes it more of a real experience for students. Work Experience Charlene Delaney, work experience coordinator at Eagan High, has been using e-mail to communicate with organizers of an English language camp in Torun, Poland, where she has taught the past four summers. Third-world countries, and I include Poland in that category right now, have very limited communications.
Air mail takes three weeks and surface mail can take three months.
Now, with Internet, you can sit back at your computer and talk to one another almost instantaneously. Because of the tremendous speed advantage of e-mail, Delaney says the Internet's popularity is growing tremendously in Poland and other countries like it. She is now expanding her horizons by also using the Internet as a source for work-related information. Delaney feels not enough teachers at Eagan are currently using the Internet, perhaps somewhat intimidated by its size and complexities, but she expects that to change rather quickly as they are exposed to its potential as a learning tool. I remember watching my grandfather look overhead in awe at an airplane flying by.