- Collaborate with another classroom
Connect with one of the thousands of other classrooms from around the globe to create a collaborative learning experience. Search our database of approved profiles to find just the perfect learning partner.
- Find great projects and instructional materials at ePals
ePals provides collaborative tools, resources, best practices and member-created projects encouraging authentic learning. In the classroom or from home, guide your students' learning with a global, online perspective. Find lesson plans, projects, and instructional resources for your classroom arranged by topic. ePals hopes its teachers help us have the best and most efficient resources on all topics. Submit your best projects and resources here.
- Chat with other teachers
The place where active teachers meet! Join teachers from around the world to find out what they are thinking. From partnerships to integrating technology, recommending resources or projects, find out what ePals' teachers today are seeking, finding and learning about.
- Share your successful lessons and resources
ePals wants to hear from you! Lead the ePals community by sharing the details of your ePals' successes. Share your successful projects and online collaborative learning experiences. Submit to become a featured teacher on the home page.
- Connect Your Families
Grow your own learning community by adding your students' families into your ePals network. Share your students' progress and success, your class newsletter; use our translation tool to communicate with your class' many language groups. Through ePals email and blogs, you can connect families to their children's learning. Encourage the parents of your students to join ePals today. By having an approved profile with us, parents are now within your learning network!
- Have a say! Cast a vote in the Polls
Voice your opinions by answering our poll. Learn what other members of the community think. Click here to respond to our current poll. Click here to submit a suggestion for a poll.
- Connect with Email
Adults use ePals email to connect with the world. ePals students use our email to connect with each other. ePals email, our most popular collaborative tool, enables your students to work in a protected, educational environment and provides you with records of their work.
- Protect your students with Monitored Accounts
With ePals policy features, you can monitor your students' email so that you can prevent inappropriate behavior and have an ongoing sense of your students' writing development.
- Create a Blog - We want to hear what you have to say
Give your learning group its own web space! Create your own hub of writing, reading and multi-media work. Gather all of your learners via our blogs, where you can keep your blog private, or open it up to the world. With calendars, templates, editing tools and easy-to-use instructions, an ePals Blog creates anytime, anywhere learning opportunities.
- Ask An ePals Teacher
Curious? Want to know what other teachers think? Ask your question on Ask An ePals Teacher and get real teachers' responses.