Back in the olden days when I was a student, we didn't have e-mail or cell phones. We didn't even have computers in the classrooms. In second grade we had a word processor (aka a glorified typewriter) to type stories on during ELA. We went to the computer lab once a week to play games from 5 1/2 inch floppy disks and learn about the abacus. Image Not Mine Image Not Mine When it came time to do a letter writing unit we painstakingly wrote draft after draft until the teacher was satisfied not only with out spelling and grammar but more importantly it seemed, our penmanship. Image Not Mine Oh how the times have changed! Letter writing units are so much more fun with computers, tablets, and Google. I can simultaneously correct students writing in Google Docs while 2 peers are doing the same. The stress of writing the perfectly spaced and spelled handwritten letter is gone. Pen-pals are no longer of the pen but of the keyboard. Qwerty-friends? ePals is an online p...