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What Tech DirectorsWant to Know About
ePals from a FormerDistrict Tech Director
Rita Oates, PhD
roates@corp.epals.com
www.epals.com
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www.epals.com
800,000 teachers
200 countries
29 million users
Policy managed
Teacher supervised
TRUSTe certification
of child privacy
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What are YOUR issues with global
collaborations in schools?
Communications like email not
allowed in district
Hard to find class outside USto collaborate with
Safety of student data
Students speak English only
Computers for testing only Standards rule
Money
Time in school
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Powerful free offerings:SchoolMail, projects
Safe global collaborationof students and teachers
Erate eligible Learn365Districtwide deployment
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COPPA, CIPA, FERPAcompliant
TRUSTe certifiedPolicy-managed
Teacher supervisionOnline training for speedy
implementation
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Free project workspace with web
2.0 tools for teachers who arecollaborating with another teacher
Not free for district or schoolwide
deployment but for individual
teachers to collaborate with others.For mass deployment ePals sells
Learn365.
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Sign up for a webinar to learn
more about
http://bit.ly/ePalsGCwebinar
Learn more about Learn365:http://corp.epals.com/learn365.php
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Heres a little more info
about ePals
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Arabic Speakers from Qatar
Learning English
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Write an engaging profile
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Teacher Forum, ePals Wanted
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Search on Australia and
Files in Student Media
Galleries to get many
examples of student work
from Australia or about
Australia
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Download this file to see
the PPT created by a
student in Australia at St.
Brendans School
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Get Help from home page under MORE
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Free SchoolMail accounts
Can deploy through teacher or whole school ordistrict
District deployment using Student Info. Service
Teacher-monitored Policy managed
Training by webinar and online materials
Students who have free email accounts can alsoget weekly emails from Smithsonian
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Level 1 - All messages must be approved by the monitor, whether
or not they contain profanity or problem words such as kill
(start everyone here)
Level 2 - Messages containing profanity must be approved by the
monitor, but messages without flags will reach their recipients
automatically. The monitor will also receive a copy of every
message not flagged. (alternative assessment)
< generally do not use levels 3 or 4 for students under 18>Level 3 - Messages containing profanity must be approved by the
monitor, but unflagged messages will reach their recipients
automatically. The monitor will not see unflagged messages.
Level 4 -All profanity filters are off.
SchoolMail Filter Levels - set by teacher
for entire class or individual students
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Smithsonian on ePals
Smithsonian on ePals: Content Center
Virtual Exhibits
Forum Discussions
Student Activities
Student Work
Showcase
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Smithsonian on ePals
Variety of topics
STEM + Art =
STEaM
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Nonfiction reading online
through ePals
Authentic communication between students
Read student work in Journalism Center,
Forums
Submit student work
Read current news in News Now
Smithsonian email extras
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Free Smithsonian content weekly
by email to you or your students
Weekly emails
Written for gr. 4-8 or gr. 9-12
Science, arts, social studies and fun facts
Can be sent to you or directly to your students(if they use ePals SchoolMail)
Smithsonian staff generate text
Students receive only (no dialog)
Links to additional info on Smithsonian site
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Smithsonian email extras
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Carus Publishing is part of ePals!
Magazines for ages 6-9
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Ages 9-14
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More for Ages 9-14
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Publications for Ages 3-6
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