The students also have individual keypals. As the school year began, it is with Seminole, Texas, and Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin . The students learn to write mini-introductions or biographies about themselves. We send the same one to both places. The students learn to ASK questions.
Questions are the basis of learning.
With our individual keypals, we have learned to exchange not only text letters but we have added the format of graphics or pictures to our messages. Using a XapShot camera, we take electronic pictures, digitize them, and insert them into our word processing documents. We send them as attachments. So, now students not only read about their keypals, they know what they look like, too. This year, we are trying to exchange more pictures and writings through the internet to share our place and ourselves.