What Tech Directors Want to Know About ePals from a Former District Tech Director

Rita Oates, PhD roates@corp.epals.com www.epals.com

www.epals.com 800,000 teachers 200 countries 29 million users Policy managed Teacher supervised

TRUSTe certification of child privacy

What are YOUR issues with global collaborations in schools?

Communications like email not allowed in district Hard to find class outside US to collaborate with Safety of student data Students speak English only Computers for testing only Standards rule Money Time in school

Powerful free offerings: SchoolMail, projects Safe global collaboration of students and teachers Erate eligible Learn365 Districtwide deployment

COPPA, CIPA, FERPA compliant TRUSTe certified Policy-managed Teacher supervision Online training for speedy implementation

Free project workspace with web 2.0 tools for teachers who are collaborating 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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http://corp.epals.com/learn365.php

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Teacher Forum, ePals Wanted

Search on Australia and Files in Student Media Galleries to get many examples of student work from Australia or about Australia

Download this file to see the PPT created by a student in Australia at St. Brendans School

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Free SchoolMail accounts

Can deploy through teacher or whole school or district District deployment using Student Info. Service Teacher-monitored Policy managed Training by webinar and online materials

Students who have free email accounts can also get weekly emails from Smithsonian

SchoolMail Filter Levels - set by teacher for entire class or individual students
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.

Smithsonian on ePals
Smithsonian on ePals: Content Center Virtual Exhibits Forum Discussions Student Activities Student Work Showcase

Smithsonian on ePals
Variety of topics STEM + Art = STEaM

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

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

Smithsonian email extras

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Magazines for ages 6-9

Ages 9-14

More for Ages 9-14

Publications for Ages 3-6