EPALS will help put your school and community on the map! You can take your school global in a safe and friendly environment. Students have the ability to create student email accounts and communicate with other children from around the world. There are more than 200 countries and terretories that participate with EPals. One of their motos is connect, share, and collaborate which is exactly what EPals lets you do with your students. One thing that I really interesting about this website is that you can select the country and even language that you want to communicate in. This is perfect for a foreign language class! The students can communicate in the target language with peers their same age in a Spanish speaking country. EPals is great for a project-based learning task and you can also incorporate many Web 2.0 tools like googledocs. Students can speak about different things happening in their lives, around the community, and learn about the world. On this website, one of the most useful resources that I found was that you would have access to National Geographic and the Smithsonian to use for different purposes. Lastly, if presenting this idea to your district or department, they say that these safe, collaborative experiences will save you money! Overall, EPals is a great resources for teachers and students to get them using technology in the classroom and interacting with news and people are the world.
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I hope that you get the chance to give some of these features a try in the future.
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