ePals has teamed-up with Intel and providers of service for classmate PCs globally to deliver the best possible online-based educational tool for educators and students.
Teachers and students: Connect with classrooms, engage in projects, share your experiences and learn together!
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Featured Classroom
John Smith and his third-grade students at Walker Upper Elementary School in Kansas are using the Classmate Community to connect with other classrooms working on similar projects to share their ideas on lots of topics. Read about their experiences and share your own.
Featured Project
Henry Ruan, a teacher in NYC schools, has used ePals SchoolBlog to present the collaboration that his students are doing with Chinese students on their classmate PCs. Students in each class pick their favorite city in the other country and contrast with their own. They use Schoolmail to safely connect with each other and utilize the instant translation between English and Chinese to facilitate communication. See more
Featured Service- Partners of Classmate PC
Using the Intel powered classmate PC, M&A Technology provides technology for classrooms. This full suite of hardware services is designed specifically for the classroom environment. M&A Technology knows the needs and demands that educators have for their classrooms. Find out more!
Most Recent Content
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At the 2008 ePals Conference, Adina Popa presented on enGauge, 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Learners . Adina discusses how today's students are immersed in a world of technology and human ingenuity. Beyond these two education reforms, teachers and students alike are in a global marketplace that is closer than ever. Where students in the...
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Michael Casey has spent the past seven years teaching grades 5-8 in a multi-subject environment at the Gallon Jug Community School in Belize. For the past four years, he has also served as principal of this small, private, K-8 school. Gallon Jug Community School’s work with ePals began four years ago with simple email exchanges at a time when...
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Here are some of the projects that Intel education and ePals have collaborated on for students to engage in global projects Monster Swap: Primary students give their imaginations a workout by creating unique monsters. They then hone their writing skills by writing descriptions for cyber pals who will try to re-create the students' terrible beasts...
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ReadWriteThink, a large online lesson plan community for educators has created lesson plans centered around the ePals site to encourage students to read and write with more interest. By communicating with peers electronically, ReadWriteThink has adopted the ePals philosophy that students enjoy learning when given a means that is fun for them. See how...
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This school from Brazil has teamed-up with schools from both Kansas and Canada for global collaboration projects using technology such as Skype and ePals School Blog to communicate with each other "In November our students, 13 to 17 years of age had a Skype meeting with their friends from Topeka, Kansas. Before that, we had shared a blog where...
