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=Welcome to the Teach for India Pen Pals Club!=

Available Pen Pals

 * Pune_Shantabai_AlmasShaikh
 * Pune_Shantabai_PradnyaM
 * Pune_Shantabai_Pranali
 * Pune_Shantabai_Balaji
 * Pune_Shantabai_SajidS
 * Pune_Shantabai_Zeenat
 * Pune_Shantabai_Deepali
 * Pune_Shantabai_Vedant

Paired Pen Pals
Got a pair / group of Pen Pals set up? Then link them here!
 * example: Name1_and_Name2

Paired Schools

 * Valley View and Shantabai Ladkat, Pune

Join in!
Hit the JOIN link on top of this page!

What's this about?

 * This project was borne out of a wish to connect children from different classrooms to each other by making them pen pals and encouraging them to write letters to each other.
 * To read the original invitation mailer that sparked this project and so to understand all the myriad different things we hope to achieve, see here: @Inception
 * For an end vision, picture this : Having an online ongoing record of your child's growth in writing skills as well as being able to see amazing friendships form cutting across geographical distances.

How? What? Where?
Relax, this is simple, really! Once you've joined, this entire website is gonna be like one huge Word document for you. There's no hard-and-fast procedures; and if you don't like the way something's done, you can start your own methods and invite everyone to come check it out. Here's the basic primer:
 * 1) Looking for a Pen Pal for your kid?
 * 2) Check out the amazing kids listed above and contact one to get started!
 * 3) Have a starting letter from your kid ready and no Pen Pals available? We've gotta start somewhere!
 * 4) Click Edit on top right, add a new line below and add a link for you kid.
 * 5) One way to name is: _ _. But of course, anonymity is allowed and you can pick creative names too.
 * 6) Then save the page (top right), and click on the new link you created to open a new page where you can again press Edit, and upload your kid's info and letter(s). Treat it like your own kingdom; spruce it up whichever way you feel like!
 * 7) Do write in some way to contact you - phone number, email address, anytihng.
 * 8) At some point, someone somewhere will see your page, and contact you with a reply letter from his/her kid.
 * 9) If mutually agreed, from that point on you both will change your page to reflect a Pen Pal pair, and start posting letters to and fro!

FAQs

 * Who can join this wiki : Fellows, Teachers and Parents
 * Who will be the pen pals : the children, of course!
 * Only Teach for India (TFI) people? : No, everybody's invited!
 * Are we Grade-specific? : No. Different kids have different writing styles and abilities; we don't need to standardize. Any kid can pair up with anyone.
 * Content? : Anything. For starting letters, it need not be even specifically addressed to Pen Pals; it can be anything that your kid has written (or even drawn!)
 * Do we have to type it in? : Only if you think it's necessary. Else a photo/scan of the letter inserted as an image is just fine. If you get the chance, you can get your kid to transcribe the letter and you can put that below the image - typing practice!!