Global Collaboration Assignment

1. A description of the ePals program: ePals is an excellent site of globle friendship and partnership. You can make friends and connect with any of your matching teacher, student, parent, program, project, and Educatioal activity to make a potential collaboration.
   
2. How I would use ePals program in my own classes: I can use ePal to make partner with any English-Chinese language exchange program in China. I would post the requirement of my program and search the match one for my class. When I worked as a Chinese teacher in a weekend Chinese school in Ottawa 7 years ago. I used to teach in a Adult Conversation Class. My students' weekness is Chinese Speakig due to the lack of opportunity to talk with Chinese native speakers. I tried to search the matched people for my students. but it was not easy in that time. Today it doesn't seem hard to me. I can find 76,760 matches in the description of Chinese-English exchange classroom on the site of ePals. It is easy to find propriate Chatpals like penpals for my students to practice Chinese speaking by free online chating on Skype.