We are aware that our high school students are busy and stressed nowadays even more than just a year ago and this burden of new information and assignments in quite different school subjects from Math through History to Language Arts including Russian and English is growing from year to year enormously.

But kids cannot imagine their life without socializing and they use social networks to keep in touch and exchange ideas. They use vkontakte.ru or facebook.com many times a day - so these networks can be also successfully used for educational purposes as well – it can be seen as a kind of new game. We have been using vkontakte.ru in English since November 2010 and all my students who are in our ePals in Focus closed academic group agree - it’s useful and fun. Here is Spotlight 5 April issue to share your opinion in the comments.