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At ePals,
we've alread forged connections among 600,000 educators and their
students in the ePals Global Community, spannin 200 countries and
territories. With the introduction of ePals LearningSpace, a virtual
workspace optimized for creating, sharing, managing, and collaborating
on educational content, students and educators in your school or
district have the opportunity to experience purposeful, project-based
learning in a collaborative and controlled environment.
How ePals
LearningSpace Promotes Engagement
ePals LearningSpace helps educators to prepare
students to thrive in a 21st century workforce where online
collaboration skills are increasingly required. Groups are created
within the virtual workspace to bring members together around a project
or subject of interest.
Students are more engaged in the
learning process because they are interacting and working together with
peers and educators within these groups. In addition, students learn how
to use key social media tools for educational pruposes on one
centralized platform.
How ePals
LearningSpace is Managed
For administrators, educators and technology
leaders, ePals LearningSpace provides the ability to manage
project-based learning in flexible, yet controlled environment under one
centralized policy.
Specifically, educators and administrators
have the ability to create and manage groups and sub-groups with
role-based permissions on one centralized platform. ePals LearningSpace
provides each group with efficient and easy-to-use social media tools
that can be managed and require minimal training.
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ePals, the Internet's leading global learning community
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Community, connections, solutions - ePals, the global platform for learning online.
ePals is a Global Community of collaborative learners, teachers, and academic experts in 200 countries and territories.
ePals provides Connections to students, classes, and school districts worldwide that are safe and secure.
ePals is the safe and protected solution for linking classes, schools, and school districts globally via ePals SchoolMail™, ePals SchoolBlog™, and Classroom Match. |
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Can a FREE service that promises to connect
students in Texas and Taiwan be both simple to use and offer meaningful
learning experiences?
Yes, and here's why.
1. ePals is easy.
Whether you're a student, teacher, or a district-wide administrator, all of ePals' no-cost solutions - SchoolMail™, SchoolBlog™, and Classroom Match - are easy to set up and use right away from any computer connected to
the Internet. In fact, SchoolMail™ is the global leader in school-safe
electronic communications.
2. ePals is safe and protected.
It is managed by teachers and administrators. All interactions are
policy managed by school districts and teachers, including emails,
blogs, and forums, and can be monitored and filtered according to any
standard. And ePals blocks SPAM, pornography, and curse words.
3. ePals is a Collaborative Learning Experience.
There's a reason why schools and school districts around the world have
adopted ePals: It has been specifically designed for primary-secondary
use and is based on the latest research for effective Internet-based
learning.
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ePals is Easy. And kids (or teachers) can't break it.
ePals' entirely web-based, self-contained
email, blog, and classroom match technology is accessible by students
working from school or from home, which:
- Saves valuable class time and extends the learning experience.
- Avoids the need for software installations or additional hardware.
Students simply go to the ePals web site to:
- Enter their unique name and password.
- Click to read and reply, view messages, or compose an email with or without attachments.
- Read emails from global learners speaking in eight different languages using the ePals instant translation tool.
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ePals is Managed by Teachers and Administrators.
ePals
is unique among the dozens of free email services because its robust
design is customized specifically for school district and classroom
use. ePals makes it easy to keep teachers and administrators in charge
and students focused on learning. With ePals you can:
- Review any and all messages -
Automatically monitor all content to delete suspicious material using
tools that can be customized for your classroom or school district.
- Create tailored blocking solutions - Select from a suggested list of inappropriate words or add new ones.
- Grant or deny student usage - Suspend or change student account passwords to guarantee safe, productive student email use.
- Control incoming messages - Block incoming messages, domains, or
all outside content, including unwanted marketing messages (SPAM),
pornographic mail, etc.
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ePals is a Collaborative Learning Experience.
ePals is centered on the principle of
authentic learning, a pedagogical approach that allows young people to
understand concepts and relationships in "real world" contexts.
Research by Doctoral candidate David Huffaker* shows that weblogs
and other computer-mediated communications tools - such as ePals SchoolMail™ and SchoolBlog™:
- Enable school and district communication and collaboration to build 21st Century skills
- Promote verbal and visual literacy through dialogue and storytelling
- Are accessible and equitable to a variety of age groups and developmental stages in education.
*Source:
Huffaker, David, A. Let Them Blog: Using Weblogs to Advance Literacy in
the K-12 Classroom. Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level: Issues
and Challenges. Hin, L. T. W. and R. Subramaniam (Eds.), Hershey, PA:
Idea Group, 2005.
ePals' classroom match takes online learning
to a new level by linking classrooms across the world to form the
largest and fastest growing interactive, web-based learning community.
School instructors and administrators use ePals classroom match to:
- Promote cross-cultural collaborations such as foreign language learning
- Foster class-to-class projects on diverse subjects
- Swap inspiring ideas with schools and teachers from around the globe.
So, let students email, blog, and interact with their peers worldwide - and watch them flourish.
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ePALS is the leading provider of safe and protected school email, blog and eMentoring technology for the K-12 education market. The ePals Global Community is the largest social learning network (200 countries) of connected classrooms for teacher supervised collaborative project-sharing, language and literacy learning and international pen pal writing. The company also provides an award-winning, research-proven literacy based curriculum called In2Books. 
