Mail someone in the class 3. This seems to take them most of the year as they also do other local stuff on their PCs. Their self esteem is low because they rarely meet with academic success. Receiving electronic mail makes them feel important. I have also included students from both of my schools who have identified learning disabilities.
Telecom is such an equalizer.
We are people with ideas expressed in text on a screen. Anything else we wish to share about ourselves is our choice. One of my students beamed as he realized during the IRC that his physical disability was invisible to the other participants. Deutch kommunizieren moechte. Europa sind 100 Millionen Menschen deutchsprachig, ganz zu schweigen vom europaeischen Osten, wo Deutch oftmals 1.