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ePals 101: Bring Global Collaboration
andCommunication
Into YourClassroom
www.epals.com
Statewide projects with ePalsMaine: 150,000
studentsWisconsin: 800,000Pennsylvania: 1.8
million students,Classroom For the Future
Kansas: 400,000 students, on the state’s KanEd portal
Colorado: 800,000 students through eNet Colorado
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Learners Connect, Communicate and Collaborate
Largest K-12 social learning network globally, reaching more than 25 million students, teachers and parents in 200 countries
Leading provider of cloud-based, policy-managed email and social learning solutions for schools and districts
CONNECT COMMUNICATE COLLABORATE
25 Million Students & Teachers Worldwide
Next Generation Email and Communications
Social Learning Environment for
Collaboration and Community
Largest Community of Connected, Global
Classrooms
• Connecting 700,000 classrooms in 200 countries & territories
• 2,500+ new schools/month
• Policy managed and Teacher supervised
• Trusted pipeline to the world’s classrooms
• TRUSTe certification
Not “one more thing” -- but a new way of advancing learning goals
• Spelling or vocabulary words homework– You assign to write in sentences – Instead, include words in an email to a partner
• Students can get credit for posting a response to a question in the Student Forum
• Encourage students to read in the Student Forums on topics that interest them
Most Popular Long-term Matches
#1 English as a Second Language teachers outside an English-speaking country want to pair their students with students in English countries
#2 Teachers of foreign language want to pair their students with native speakers (i.e., teacher of Spanish wants to have Spanish speakers in Mexico)
Spanish class in S. Korea
One-email exchanges too!
• Students create 10 questions for a classroom in a country they are studying in Geography, things “not in the book”
• Students search global community and find five potential partner classes
• Students copy profiles into a Word file• Students submit questions and profiles to
teacher• Teacher writes to the other teachers, pasting in
the student questions…..
Finding a global partner
• Search by map
• Search by classroom
• Search by project
• Look at the “new schools” scrolling on the home page of ePals for the newest profiles
• OR search in Project Forums or Teacher Forums for very specific matches
Project-Based Learning
• Free to use, adapt
• Developed jointly with National Geographic
• Also feature great teacher-created projects
Types of Global Projects
• Empathy for others…visits, pen pals
• Finding new ways to enrich and engage…global citizenship
• Desire for social justice…peace studies, fundraising, activism
Start with a Specific Project
Great teacher-created projects
ePals Teacher
Ambassador Contest Winners
Viewing audience in the millions
How Tos, Manuals Under Help from home page