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ePals, Inc. Confidential
www.epals.com
Tim DiScipio Founder
Dr. Rita Oates VP Education
General Social Network
Tools vs.Collaborative
Web 2.0 EducationPlatforms
TCEA Booth #1423
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A recent Columbia University studyof college students found that
94% were sharing
personal information on Facebookthat they had not intended to make
public.
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Recent Facebook Statistics
20 million minors on Facebook
7.5 million younger than 13
5 million younger than 10
Fastest-growing user base: ages 8-13
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What are Mass Market
social networks good for?
Twitter: connect teachers on happenings
andevents and brief communication; parents
with homework and tests
Fast, push-out info
Facebook: publicize school events; name with
a face; building friends / project network and
group discussion; RSVPs
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When Teachers Are AskedWhy They
Selected Facebook / Twitter etc
To Use In The Classroom
#1 Answer: Im familiar with it as my own
personal communication tool
#2 Answer: Im not aware of other products
#3 Answer: Saw a teacher demo at a conference
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What are Mass Market social
networks not good for?
Safety & Policy Management
Role-based permissions at customized andadministrator levels
Not always on-task
Students under age 13 (age of consent)
Archiving / Storage ..building a legacy of work
Privacy - personal info tracking / advertising
School / District deployment
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What are Mass Market
social networks not good for?
Not curricular in functionality
Require more time to complete collaborative tasks
Require outside third-party applications be used tocomplete those tasks..needing additionalusername/password accounts = web sprawl
They do not integrate other K12 third-party appswhich are relevant
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Most breach US school usage & safety policies
Usage can easily put student names and
schoolwork with teacher comments out on the
open Web forever
No support / training / professional developmentteam
General Market Social Network Tools
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An Actual School District Policy Excerpt
to District Users OnA
Certain ProductThey Use
Remember that __________ is not an
acceptable storage solution. Do not keepofficial docs here
Do not use ___________ for storage ofstudent data or other secure information.
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District Excerpts On User Support
When you have a technical issue with _________,there is not a lot we can do to assist you.
This also means that __________ will update the toolwhen __________decides to update the tool. This willhappen without announcement and may be(understandably) unsettling to some of you.
We are not made aware of changes in advance, andhave no ability to control the release of new featuresor functionality.
- _____________ Public Schools
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Here are some companies
providing K-12 focused
online products:
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AreWe Teaching Students
the Proper 21st
Century Skills?
We know they should be digital and online
but does that mean anywhere with anyone?
What kinds of communication and net skills are
they acquiring going from nothing directly toFacebook?
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Do students have a public and/or
private space for their work?
Are students focused, on-task and
free of distraction at the moment oflearning and critical thinking?
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Social Learning TheoryLev Vygotzky (1935)
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Learning is cognitive development through social interaction with
adult / instructor guidance and peer collaboration.
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What Is Your Technology
Providers Business Model? K-12 Edu Providers
Free
Subscription-based usage
May be e-rate eligible
Educational content sponsors
Facebook / Twitter
Advertising
User profile data capture to sell to marketers
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Are schools mindful of their
obligations for the personaland schoolwork privacy of
students?
How will we protect studentprivacy under FERPA in the
context of commercial
market profiling of students?Is there school liability
when something goes
wrong?
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Districts indicate students are lesslikely to challenge a school-based
solution with inappropriate behavior
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ePals, Inc. Confidential
The Largest and
Fastest Growing
K-12 Social Learning Network
Leading Provider of Safe K12 Collaboration Technology
www.epals.com
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Customizing and Managing The
Digital Learning and TeachingEco-System
Moving Away From One-Off
Resources and Solutions, Each with
Unique Usernames and Passwords
Enterprise-level deployment
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Internets largest and fastest growing K-12
social learning network, reaching 25M+ teachers
and students in 200 countries and territories
Leading provider of safe, policy-managed
collaborative K12 technology and virtual
workspace tools
Leader in project-based and community-based
methodologies that produce literacy and
meaningful learning online
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> Allows students and their teachers to locate,
connect with and work collaboratively on projects
with another class down the street and around the
world.
> Gives students, parents, teachers and
administrators a secure way to communicate online,
offers instant translation in 35 languages, and allowsadministrators to establish school-safe usage
policies.
> A virtual workspace supporting collaborative
learning and projects through social media tools,
access to high-quality content, digital storage areas
and ePals SchoolMail and Global Community.
> Curriculum-based service for enhancing reading,
writing and critical thinking skills by matching
students with ementor pen pals and high quality
genre-based books & materials.
ePals Products Bring 21st Century Learning to Schools
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Global Community Membership
Teachers
Students Home School
Parents
ePals activities are developed for classrooms. Onlyeducators or parents set up collaborative partnerships.
Activities built for independent student learning and
teacher lesson plans or classroom activities.
Classroom Homeschool
ePals is a Safe Online Classroom Community
700,000
Reaching
25 million
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www.epals.com Home Page
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ePals SchoolSafe Desktop and SchoolSafe
CONNECT
COMMUNICATE
COLLABORATE
Largest social learning network globally. Collaborative
projects, community discussions, global classroom
connections in a safe environment.
ePals solutions enable policy-managed access to third party applications and services
such as Microsoft Office & Web Apps, Skype, Schoolsafe Applications
Enabling schools and classrooms to connect and collaborate with
next generation learning
Enterprise-grade communications solution for K-12.
Robust policy management and embedded instructional
value.
Social learning virtual workspace designed for project-
based learning and group collaboration -- schoolwork /
documents all reside in one place.
LEARN
Curriculum-based literacy program matches students
with e-mentors to enhance reading, writing and critical
thinking skills. First in a series of learning applications
built on the ePals platform.
ePals Solutions Create a Unified Framework
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Who belongs to the ePals Global Community?
> 700,000 educators
Millions of students
who speak 136
different languages
In 200 countries and
territories
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Safe platform for 21st Century collaboration
Connect with approved foreign and domesticclassrooms
On-task and self-directed learning
Home-to-School Connection / Rural SchoolReach
Store and share content and school documents,useWeb 2.0 tools
Enterprise-grade and robust platform built toscale
Policy-management with roles and permissionsgranted
Teacher supervised
Why Schools Use ePals
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ePals Differentiators
1. Designed specifically for K12 safety and
curricular functionality
2. Experts in project-based learning and virtualcollaboration
3. Policy-managed and configures to school
usage-safety policy
4. Expertise on large scale deployments, setupand training
5. Pioneer in social learning
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Yaodong Chens Students in Guangxi, Chinapracticing English with their ePals at PatrickHenry High School in California, USA
China California
Chinese and US High School Students use ePals
for Global Studies, learning about economy and
practicing language
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ePALS helps my students practice English.ePALS is introducing many Chinese students
to authentic English and will help teachers in
China use web-based language teaching
more effectively.- Yaodong Chen, teacher in Southern China who
has connected more than 700 of his students with
native English speakers via ePALS in the last 8 years
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Virtual Communities+
Curricular Collaboration Tools
+Curricular Content
=
Powerful Student Engagement
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A safe K-12 virtual workspace where tools and docsreside in one safe online space with authorizedclassmates, teachers and mentorsTools - email, blogs, wikis, shared portfolios and mediagalleriesSchoolwork / documents -Word, PowerPoints, filesand rich mediaContact Groups - Teachers and classmates
Shared environment with project and document access Open architecture Selected by International Baccalaureate to be their new
global collaboration and learning platform for 700,000users in 140 countries
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ePals LearningSpace in one school
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Teacher view
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My Homepage
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Teachers and students can create profiles seen only
by their virtual classroom and school community
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Classes
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Assignments
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Calendar
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Groups
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Connections
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Files
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Authenticated Homepage
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Inbox
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Moderate Mail: Teacher Task
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Address Book
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Moderation and Policy Badges
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Smart Address Book
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1st Email to Embed
Language Translation
into an Email Browser(1999)
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Educational Partners
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The class collaborates in the cloud
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- and in the classroom.
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ImagineImagine
ThisThis
M t h t ff d I f llM t h t ff d I f ll
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My tech staff and I are on a conference call.My tech staff and I are on a conference call.
Somebody asks a question about the newSomebody asks a question about the new
schoolschool--safe global collaboration platform wesafe global collaboration platform weare pilot testingare pilot testing
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and discover thatand discover that schoolschool isis in sessionin session..
ON A SNOW DAY!
So we logSo we log--in to:in to:
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Shakespeare on Snow Days
An entire classroom of students logged into their ePals
LearningSpace on an emergency snow day to completetheir Shakespeare project.
The teacher never asked them to, she never participated,
she just watched the teamwork, self-directed learning andcritical thinking all happening virtually on a snow day off!
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The amount of writing that our fourthgraders are doing in LearningSpace hasincreased 9 10 times over the last year
The quality of work has increased
because they now see and comment oneach others work.
- ePals LearningSpace Teacher in NY
anywhere and anytime they want
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anywhere and anytime they want
d h b h d h
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Digital-age learners of all ages
can benefit from using web 2.0
collaboration technology.
Mrs. Arnolds 4th Grade Classroom Blog
So do their brothers and sisters in the
elementary schools.
Classrooms can connect to collaborate in the schools
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Classrooms can connect to collaborate in the schools
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Providing a cloud-based, school-safeWeb 2.0 collaboration
platform can inspire digital native students to make
schoolwork part of their reallives outside of school. Thepower of authentic, collaborative engagement can transform a
class into a connected learning community.
Communication and Collaboration
Can Make A RealDifference
But just when we thought we were done
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Students have many talents they cant always use during the
school day. The ePals LearningSpace global collaboration
platform is 21st Century,Web 2.0, social, communicative,
collaborative, multimedia, anytime and anywhere just like
them. Technology can empower students and teachers to do
some of their best work. For some students and teachers,
that means Multimedia.
The Multimedia Started
We found students had skills and abilities we
didnt know about in their projects and
sharing!
Writing and Recording Original Music: Hamlet as a Pop Song
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Writing and Recording Original Music: Hamlet as a Pop Song
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LearningSpace Case Studies
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More LearningSpace Case Studies
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Your presenters:
Tim DiScipio, [email protected]
Rita Oates, PhD, VP, Education
@ritaoates
See case studies ofLearningSpace in K12 schools:
http://learningspace.epals.com