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PikiFriends
http://www.pikifriends.net
PikiFriends is an online 'penpal' program made for junior and senior high school students and teachers only.
Member students and teachers manage their own personal profiles and communicate with each other in a variety of ways using English. The main goal of PikiFriends is to improve English communication skills among EFL students.

JuJu Penpals
http://www.juju.cc/
Free international friends and penpals community.

PTPI's School & Classroom Program
http://www.ptpi.org/programs/SchoolClass.aspx
People to People International's School and Classroom Program is a free service that connects teachers and their students with classes in other countries for pen pal exchanges and projects that improve cultural understanding and encourage friendship.
Classes are matched according to similar age and number of pupils to form partnerships. Students interact by exchanging traditional paper letters or email messages supervised by their teacher, who receives a program manual for guidance. Teachers may form partnerships with classes in multiple countries and work together for one or more school years.

Leonas Kids Club
http://leonaskidsclub.com
International penpal site for kids aged 5-17. 100% Free

PikiFriends
http://www.pikifriends.net/
PikiFriends
The only online tool exclusively for Junior and Senior High Schools worldwide designed to improve English as a Second Language education and promote cross-cultural learning.
It’s a unique, full-featured ‘penpal’ tool for secondary school students and teachers around the world.
Safe, educational, easy to use and 100% free.

Global Penfriends and Penpals
http://www.penfriends.com.au
Snailmail and Email family friendly penpal club for people of all ages from all over the world.

Language Exchange Project
http://www.language-exchange-project.com/
Language Exchange Project is a simple and intuitive web site to find a language exchange partner, pen pal or friend.
Study a foreign language while understanding a new culture and making new friends!
If you are serious about learning a foreign language, this challenge might be the most difficult thing you will ever have to do in your life.
Creating friendships with native speakers is a great way to be expose to that new language while learning a new culture and of course having fun.

The Penpals Network
http://www.tpn.info
The Penpals Network
An international, free and big Friendship and Pen Pals Community.
Do you have interest in international friendships and in studying languages? We have a forum for you. The Penpals Network is a Penpal Service for people of all ages.
A free Membership is obligatory for all users to contact other users.
English | Deutsch | Español | Italiano |

International Pen Friends
http://www.ipfeurope.com
International Pen Friends (IPF) can provide you with new friends in your own age group from many countries around the world.
Our Penfriends club has over 300,000 members aged from 8 to 80 in 192 countries. Since 1967, IPF has provided more than 1.5 million people aged from 8-80+ with penfriends. Our solid membership base, commitment and service has led to us being recognized as the world's leading penfriend club.
IPF does not use the Internet to match penfriends. IPF's objective is to keep the art of letter writing alive.

Guide to International Collaboration on the www
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/tech/international/guide_pg2.html
Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet
As you begin to explore the possibilities for cross-cultural interaction, global classroom projects, and new learning opportunities, the following organizations can assist you in your efforts.

KidLink
http://www.kidlink.org/
KidLink
Basic life-skills training for children. Helps them collaborate and network with friends around the world.
Kidlink's free educational programs are for children and youth in all countries through the age of 17, and students at school through secondary school. Most users are between 10 - 15 years of age. Since the start in 1990, used by children from 164 countries.
The Kidlink knowledge network is run by 500 volunteers in over 50 countries. Hundreds of public and private virtual "rooms" for conferencing, chats, and collaboration. Information in over 30 languages.
| عربي | Български | Catala | Deutsch | English | Espa?l | ગુજરાતી | ?lenska | Italiano | | Magyar | नेपाली | Norsk | Portugu? | Русский | Rom??|

International Pen Friends (IPF)
http://usa.ipfpenfriends.com/
International Pen Friends (IPF) can provide you with new friends in your own age group from many countries around the world. Our Penfriends club has over 300,000 members aged from 8 to 80 in 192 countries. Since 1967, IPF has provided more than 1.5 million people aged from 8-80+ with penfriends. Our solid membership base, commitment and service has led to us being recognized as the world's leading penfriend club.
IPF does not use the Internet to match penfriends. IPF's objective is to keep the art of letter writing alive and to use that form of communication to encourage worldwide friendship. At the same time, many members exchange e-mail addresses and incorporate a variety of communication methods into the penfriend hobby which we support.
Our School Class Service

email projects
http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/pints/email/
email projects

The Monster Exchange
http://www.monsterexchange.org/about/about_msdescription.htm
Monster Exchange is designed to encourage the development of reading and writing skills while integrating Internet technology into the classroom curriculum. Classrooms from a variety of schools worldwide are paired together; the students in each classroom are split into groups, each of which designs an original picture of a monster. The students must then write a description of the monster. The partnered classes then exchange their descriptions via e-mail and the Internet.

eTwinning
http://www.etwinning.net/ww/en/pub/etwinning/index.htm
EU? eTwinning action aims to generalise partnerships where two schools from two different European countries take advantage of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools to work together in order to harvest pedagogical, social and cultural benefits. It provides an opportunity to motivate young people to learn about each other, their school culture, and family while practising their ICT skills at the same time. eTwinning is about enhancing pedagogy and schools see it as a worthwhile activity that adds value to conventional learning.

Learning from international keypals
http://4teachers.org/testimony/dervan/index.shtml
Learning from international keypals
A library media specialist from New Jersey describes how she connected her students with the world in one year.

Keypals Club International KCI
http://worldkids.net/clubs/kci/
Keypals Club International KCI
Hiya all! I'm Lauren. I'm 16 years old and I'm the Founder and President of this awesome club which has been in existence since April 3, 1996. Yup. This is the first and original penpal club for kids by kids and we make sure you are safe in here.

IECC Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections
http://www.iecc.org/
IECC is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships.
IECC = Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections

ePALS Classroom Exchange
http://www.epals.com/
ePALS Classroom Exchange
ePALS is the World's Leading Provider of School-Safe Email and Collaborative Technology for the Educational Market.
Connecting over 103,262 classrooms, 4.6 million students and educators in 191 countries for classroom-to-classroom projects and cross-cultural learning in the world's largest online classroom community.

Finding national and international keypals
http://www.4teachers.org/testimony/dervan/keypal.shtml
Finding national and international keypals
Some sites to help you find keypals or begin collaborative activities with classrooms around the world.

Kids' Space Connection
http://www.ks-connection.org/
Kids' Space Connection is an international meeting place for children and schoolteachers. Find penpals from around the world!
Use KS Messaging Center as your safe tool for communication. It was designed so that both teachers and children under 13 years of age can benefit from the Internet, free from worry.