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Page 1: EPals 101: Bring Global Collaboration and Communication Into Your Classroom

ePals 101: Bring Global Collaboration

andCommunication

Into YourClassroom

www.epals.com

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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

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• 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

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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

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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)

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Spanish class in S. Korea

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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…..

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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

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Project-Based Learning

• Free to use, adapt

• Developed jointly with National Geographic

• Also feature great teacher-created projects

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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

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Start with a Specific Project

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Great teacher-created projects

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ePals Teacher

Ambassador Contest Winners

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Viewing audience in the millions

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How Tos, Manuals Under Help from home page

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