Your partners must purchase Aspects for a fully functioning version. Your Macintosh computer comes with several e-mail clients. Claris Emailer Lite is a dedicated e-mail client. Both Internet Explorer and Netscape can send and receive e-mail. E-mail is a form of asynchronous communication there is no immediate response to a message.
Most collaborative projects use e-mail as their method of communication between classrooms.
In many schools, students do not have their own permanent e-mail accounts. Keypal projects can be conducted this way by writing several long e-mails with each student's entry. While this is not the most desirable way to communicate 30 keypals per class, it does work. Use your personal e-mail address to send messages to experts online. Or, you can also assign students to small e-mail groups, and get a few new accounts for these groups.