what tech directors want to know about epals-tcea presentation

7/29/2019 What Tech Directors Want to Know about ePals-TCEA presentation

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What Tech DirectorsWant to Know About

ePals from a FormerDistrict Tech Director

Rita Oates, PhD

[email protected]

www.epals.com
mailto:[email protected]://www.epals.com/http://www.epals.com/mailto:[email protected]


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www.epals.com

800,000 teachers

200 countries

29 million users

Policy managed

Teacher supervised

TRUSTe certification

of child privacy
http://www.epals.com/http://www.epals.com/


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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
http://bit.ly/ePalsGCwebinarhttp://corp.epals.com/learn365.phphttp://corp.epals.com/learn365.phphttp://bit.ly/ePalsGCwebinar


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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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