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Two-page overview of core products from ePals Corp. Second page focuses on how English as a Second Language teachers can use free items from ePals to help with English language instruction, both written and oral.
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Connect your students and teachers to one another and to classrooms around the globe with ePals. ePals hosts the world’s largest K-12 social learning network and provides safe, learning-centered communication and collaboration solutions for schools and districts. ePals’ classroom projects and safe collaboration platform globally inspire and promote meaningful learning. SchoolSafe role and group policies govern all ePals communications for a COPPA, CIPA and FERPA compliant environment.
CONNECT
COMMUNICATE
COLLABORATE
Where Learners Connect
25 Million Students and Teachers Worldwide
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www.epals.com
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®LearningSpaceA social learning platform for school communities to connect and collaborate.LearningSpace is a customizable platform for sately connecting students, parents and educators online. Create groups for classes and projects with collaboration tools like blogs, forums, media galleries, wikis and dropboxes. User roles, permissions and policies set by the district or school govern all communications.
Social Learning
The world’s largest K-12 social learning network.
Reaching 25 million students and parents in 200 countries worldwide, the ePalsGlobal Community enables learners to discover quality curricular content andmatch with classrooms around the world for collaboration and authenticexchanges.
GlobalCommunityTM FREE
Cloud-based email for safe, next generation school communications.SchoolMail is the only scalable, enterprise-grade email solution designed for K-12 with SchoolSafe technology, language translation and embedded student learning support. Integrated with Microsoft’s Live@edu infrastructure.
SchoolMailTM 365 Safe Email
A common core eMentoring program.
Students in grades 3-5 are matched with adult pen pals to read 5 books in parallel and exchange teacher-monitored online letters about the texts. Theprogram provides standards-based professional development and is facilitatedby resource-filled websites for students, teachers and eMentor pen pals.
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CONNECT
COMMUNICATE
COLLABORATE
25 Million Students and Teachers Worldwide
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STEP 1: Join ePals.Go to: http://www.epals.com and click on:
Fill in the information about you and your school. Choose a username and password. You automatically get 30 student email accounts. (Request more if you have more students.) To get your whole school set up with email accounts, email [email protected].
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STEP 2: Find a project for your students.We recommend The Way We Are. Your students can share information about their school, life and community and read messages written by other students. Engage students in authentic practice of English with a peer in an English-speaking country. http://bit.ly/WayWeAre
Other ePals projects: http://www.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?DivID=index
STEP 3: Find partner teachers.The Way We Are Teacher Forum has teachers looking for partners for The Way We Are project. http://www.epals.com/forums/132.aspx
Also search for teachers in the ePals Global Community. Thousands of native English-speaking classes are in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. http://www.epals.com/search
STEP 4: Students practice reading English.Your students can read, ask or answer questions from other students in ePals Student Forums. Many students learning English post in The Way We Are Student Forum. http://www.epals.com/forums/131.aspx
Your students can get weekly emails in English from the Smithsonian Institution through ePals. Topics include science, art, social studies, and Fun Facts. Teachers choose which ones they get.http://www.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?divid=smithsonian_home
STEP 5: Students listen to English in student-made videos.See how other students learning English and native speakers demonstrate their oral language in videos and podcasts in the ePals Student Media Galleries. http://bit.ly/StMedia
When your students create a video introducing your school, or other digital documents, share them.
For more information, sign up for the ePals 101 webinar: http://bit.ly/ePals101For help with ePals SchoolMail, contact: [email protected]
How To Start Using ePals For English Language Learning, Projects and Global Connections
“ Schools and teachers must integrate email into the writing and content curriculum to effectively prepare students in powerful ways for their college and workplace futures...
Donald J. Leu, PhD”
With ePals LearningSpace, we arecreating a new kind of learningcommunity with the potential to fixwhat is broken with traditionaleducation...Students and teacherslearning together in a safe socialnetworking community helps studentscompete with themselves instead ofagainst other students.
Ken GrahamAsst. Superintendent and Tech Director
Hauppauge Schools, NY
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ePals can create the ideal communityand technology platform for ensuringthat students and educators at IB WorldSchool can safely communicate,collaborate and learn with their peersregardless of geographic, cultural orlanguage differences.
Jeffrey BeardDirector General of the
International Baccalaureate”
I’ve been a teacher for 22 years and I’dhave to say that ePals is one of themost powerful teaching tools that I’ve come across.
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Director of New Literacies University of Connecticut
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Dorothy A.Teacher, New York
