ePALS Announces Special Program for Teacher and Classroom Use of School-Safe Email
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New program means that teachers can immediately provide every student in their classrooms with opportunities to build 21st century skills, collaborate with students around the globe, and benefit from protected communication
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 25 / -- ePALS, Inc. today announced a special program for teachers who want every student in their classrooms to learn 21st century reading, writing and thinking skills. Available for $39.95, the program provides the classroom with a safe and protected SchoolM@il account for the teacher, up to 30 students in her classroom, and an administrator account. The accounts can be used for both the remainder of this school year and for students in the teacher's 2007-2008 class. This offer is available only at epals.com/teacher.
"Our announcement today is about making SchoolM@il available to each and every child in a classroom without reliance on scarce federal, state and district funds," said Ed Fish, CEO of ePALS. "Parent Teacher groups, individual parents, and other organizations can easily give teachers access to this program for all their students."
"Ten years of working with thousands of teachers and millions of students has shown the benefit of classroom collaboration on reading and writing," said Tim Discipio co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of ePals. "Until today, however, budgetary considerations have made it harder for teachers to make ePals SchoolM@il available to all their students. Individual accounts, combined with teacher-led classroom collaboration, provide an optimal opportunity for authentic student learning."
This is the first of several initiatives following the January 2007 merger of In2Books and ePals Classroom Exchange that will provide teachers, schools, and families with safe, affordable, research proven learning services. For the past seven years, In2Books' focus has been developing and deploying curriculum-based reading, writing, and critical thinking experiences enhanced by collaboration among students, teachers, and intellectual mentors.
ePALs SchoolM@ail programs for schools and school districts remain economical and offer market leading administrative controls and a protected environment with multilingual capabilities. This easy-to-use suite includes student safe email, discussion boards, file sharing and custom school homepages. ePALS SchoolBlog was awarded a 2006 Technology and Learning Award of Excellence and is available at www.epals.com.
ePALS is the first global K-12 collaborative learning and literacy community, focused specifically on fostering reading, writing and critical thinking skills across the curriculum. Our mission is to support lifelong learning through resource-rich, collaborative experiences about subjects that empower and inspire. Over the past decade, ePALS services such as the research proven In2Books literacy and learning program, and the SchoolM@il, SchoolBlog and eMentoring suite of safe collaborative tools, have been widely used and trusted by schools, teachers, students and families. The ePALS Community (www.ePALS.com) connects teacher-supervised classroom-to-classroom pen pal exchanges and cross-cultural learning projects in more than 120,000 classrooms across 191 countries, connecting more than 7 million students and teachers.
