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In the past, many teachers have provided their students the opportunity to become pen-pals with other classrooms across a city, state or even a nation using hand-written letters. But in today’s world where email and media communication are capturing the attention of students, we, as educators, need to look to the future of communication. That is exactly what ePals.com is doing.

ePals boasts itself as a safe learning and collaborating platform for teachers and students to communicate all across the world. With ePals you can connect to many different types of projects and, subsequently, with other classes. Additionally, ePals provides different learning experiences, including; unit specific content, teaching resources, translation services and projects arranged by topic, and all of ePal’s projects include key objectives:

• Interaction – Students do work geared towards the project and collaborate with others globally.
• Cross-curriculum – Through mathematics, the sciences, cultures and languages.
• Inclusion – There are many different aspects of projects to incorporate many different learning styles and abilities.

So check out the ePals website at www.epals.com and get in on the forefront of what is certain to be a global phenomenon.

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