I got an email about new free tools from ePals, including a blog and email for students. Just wondering if anyone has used these resources, including setting up ePals? If so, what did you think about them?
I know about a lot of free blog sites, but how about other email for students? We are currently using Gaggle.

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Richard, thanks for sharing your personal insight!

ePals has the worlds's largest and fastest growing social network for education.... PLUS it provides access to online communication tools (SchoolMail and SchoolBlog). There are no pop ads in student email! AND yes, it's now all free! ePals has partnered with a variety of other educational companies, including National Geographic. It's also the global community on the Intel Classmate PC. As a result, they are now able to offer their safe and protected tools to educators and students for free.

Here's a training and resource blog to help you get started! http://sites.epals.com/ePalsTraining/
The down side of epals is that only one teacher can monitor a student. Works great in elementary school, but challenging in a high school or middle school where more than one teacher wants to utilize it at the same time. You could have one teacher monitor the entire school, but that gets kind if hectic and teachers can't take advantage of the class emailing tool.

I haven't really played with the collaborative side of it too much, but it appears to be worth while.
I just started using epals but am surprised that there can only be one monitor---did you ask them about it?
Hi,
I am the teacher advisor of the Anime Club at my high school. I am planning to connect them via ePals to a Japanese group. I'll keep you informed. I'll appreciate any information you care to share. Thanks

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