Anybody using ePals?

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Kari Stubbs on November 20, 2008 at 7:31am

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/

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Permalink Reply by Erich Stephen on November 20, 2008 at 11:01am

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.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on November 20, 2008 at 3:33pm

I just started using epals but am surprised that there can only be one monitor---did you ask them about it?

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Permalink Reply by Roslyn F. Williams on April 15, 2010 at 2:19pm

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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