Listed below are other online resources that you may find helpful for making intercultural connections.

SIGNAL Worldwide Penpal Directory.
According to SIGNAL's Web page, it is "One of world's largest and oldest mail advertising publications for penpals, collectors, correspondence clubs, mail traders... Established in 1960 by Raimo Kaarna. Estimated total readership in 1997 over 100,000!

Friends and Partners -- Russia and the US
is our effort to use the Internet as a vehicle for introducing our peoples to each other. No political agendas allowed! We hope to do something far more important than debate contemporary political and economic issues -- namely, to encourage understanding of each other, to promote learning about our cultures, and to introduce friends.

Swedish Schoolnet
This site features two parts: communication (E-mail and national conferences) and information (specially arranged information exclusively in WWW for the education sector). Goals include helping to improve opportunities to communicate between schools, pupils and teachers.

I*EARN
The International Education and Resource Network enables young people to undertake projects designed to make a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people.

The Odyssey: World Trek for Service and Education
is an "interactive world trek" that will link students in classrooms with volunteers traveling around the world for two years learning about different cultures and volunteering with local grassroots organizations.

NickNacks: Learning Together Around the World

Scholastic Central

Route 66: K-12 World Wide Web Project
Just as U.S. Highway Route 66 was a catalyst for Americana, we see the World Wide Web as a catalyst that will integrate the Internet into K12 school curriculums. The University of Minnesota is beginning project Web66 to facilitate the introduction of this technology into K12 schools.

Language Resources

The Virtual English Language Center
The Comenius Group is developing this site so that students and teachers of English as a second or foreign language can have online access to relevant materials, products and services. Improve your English with The Weekly Idiom. Practice your English through The E-mail Pen Pal Connection, learn about the software and books we recommend, and more!

Russian House Pen-Pal Forum Users
Readers write their letters online; the letters are then compiled and sent off to a list of Russian subscribers (children) who are fortunate enough to have Internet access.