Thank you for sharing your unique perspective! I think it is important for educators to increase their own global awareness and global literacy as part of this disalogue! ePals is a powerful tool for making these types of connections for both students and teachers! Again, thank you. For those ePals users...

The opportunity to integrate high quality National Geogrpahic content into global opportunities via ePals has been enthusiastically embraced by teachers across the country! As Director of Professional Development, I've had the unique opportunity to work with many teachers, and they are energized...

You had a terrific presentation just packed with great information! I hope you can post your handout here so we can all easily access the URLs you referred to.

Hello John, Thanks for asking such good questions. Concerning the translation question, no I have not felt a need for having everything translated into another language at this time. The colleagues I've worked with in the past want their students to learn English and having the blog page in this...

Several of you came up to me after this morning's session to talk about using ePals in your classrooms, schools and districts! I'm happy to continue the conversation of how you can make ePals come to life for you in your schools. Ask questions; share strategies. We can continue the journey here...

[quote user="Ed Fish"]An aspect of the ePals/Kenyan relationship that I discussed with Barnabas last evening and wanted to share was that ePals enables Kenyan schools and students to collaborate across the coutry and across the world -- and importantly -- to do so with low bandwidth dialup...

Hey Candace, We often show the San Diego / China SchoolBlog as a demonstration of collaboration between classrooms. Currently SchoolBlog does not have translation features, something we have on our forums and SchoolMail. How important would it be for SchoolBlog to have instant translation? Also do you...