One can also film the scenes and make a video of the performance. The compositions and the journals written on the computer look professional. It is an accomplishment the students can take pride in, take home and show their parents or friends. The simulation can be taken beyond the classroom. Two or more classes can cooperate and have neighboring buildings.
Professors can organize exchanges and common projects electronically throughout the world.
They have engendered abundant enthusiasm with teachers and students alike. Students remember this experience with excitement and, a year or two later, still recall how they enjoyed the class because of this activity, and how they never before, or since, enjoyed writing so much in a class. For the professor, it is a way of traveling outside of the classroom and to foster active participation from the students. It is also a perfect vehicle to create a multi-cultural learning environment. Language education and the computer.