3. Did these students have access to e-mail? If not, have you thought about adding e-mail into the project?
These students are very low level. I only have them for one semester and they have never touched a computer before, so it takes the whole semester just to get them feeling comfortable using the word processor. We try to get them into a class that uses computers for the next level--for Beginning Two--and that's when they are taught how to use e-mail. I've thought about it, but I haven't built it in because it's too much computer skill--it takes the focus off the English language learning. And they have to see that the computer skill is integrated into what they are learning. E-mail would be too much for that lower level at this point.
