1. Welcome Wisconsin www.wisconsinconnects.net

2. Partnership between the Office of the Lieutenant Governor and ePals

3. Web 2.0 Tools and Social Networking for Global Collaborative Learning Are your students connected?

4. What is ePals? ePals Global Network ePals Global Network – Internet’s largest social learning network reaching 13 million teachers and students in 200 countries for teacher-supervised, cross-cultural penpal exchanges, project- sharing and project-based learning, literacy and foreign language skill practice ePals SchoolMail ePals SchoolMail – Safe, protected, multilingual email designed for school safety. “Walled Garden” with only K12 students inside ePals SchoolBlog ePals SchoolBlog - Safe, protected blog predetermining who can participate, access and post. Great for writing journals, events, projects. Parents can have full/partial access. In2Books In2Books + Projects – Literacy skill resource, National Geographic, IBM eMentoring, Intel Classmate PC/World Ahead projectProjects

5. Are you a web 0.0 or web 1.0 or web 2.0 teacher? Web 0.0: read textbooks, books only Web 1.0: email, webquests, look up information online Web 2.0: Refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications; such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, and blogs.

6. When asked which skills are important for students to be successful in the 21 st century, 69% of students in the U.S. responded: The ability to work with people from all over the world!

7. What collaborations do you have now? Within school? Within district? Within state? Outside U.S. borders? How do you find partners? How do you communicate? Any ePals users here?

8. Goals Teaching with global connections Stories of collaboration and projects for learning Using free tools to find and connect: ePals –Wisconsin Connects! www.wisconsinconnects.net –Global Community (classroom matching) –SchoolMail TM –Teacher and student forums What are my first steps? How do I add global collaborative learning to my classroom? More resources

9. ePals Exchanges The grade 2 students had so much fun reading emails from their new friends. They learned many ways they were alike as well as different. The student groups wrote about different aspects of their schools and videoed themselves to create a "documentary" about their school and community. We then exchanged "culture parcels" with the other class. Louisiana and United Kingdom

10. Partner class Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

11. Project Overview Friendly letters with email Compared cultures Completed “documentary”

12. First…Practice! On paper With each other

15. Friendly Letters

17. Collaboration across the Digital Divide: New York Students and their ePals in Botswana A story of global connections that transcend socio- economic status, culture and place.

18. Students from the Guangxi School, China A story that embraces shared language and cultural awareness.

19. Collaborating with Their California ePals………

20. http://sites.epals.com/cpauchnick/

21. http://sites.epals.com/pauchnickc/

22. Welcome Wisconsin www.wisconsinconnects.net

29. Collaboration

40. Goals Teaching with global connections Stories of collaboration and projects for learning Using free tools to find and connect: ePals –Wisconsin Connects! www.wisconsinconnects.netwww.wisconsinconnects.net –Global Community (classroom matching) –SchoolMail TM –SchoolBlog TM –Teacher and student forums What are my first steps? How do I add global collaborative learning to my classroom? More resources

41. Connecting classrooms in 200 countries & territories Reaching 13 million students & teachers 2,000 new schools/month Policy managed & Teacher supervised Trusted pipeline to the world’s classrooms

42. Welcome Wisconsin www.wisconsinconnects.net

44. Your Teacher Homepage

45. Unique Features of SchoolMail 1.Language Translation: ePals SchoolMail is the first email with built-in Language Translation. 2.Safe and Secure: Options for monitoring student work (SchoolMail was made for school use with qualities that teachers asked for!) 3.World’s Largest Online Learning Community: Use ePals SchoolMail to communicate with students, parents, peer educators, and members of the global community.

46. First Email with Built-in Language Translation

52. Safe and Protected Student Email: Safely integrate student email in appropriate, educational ways. Preview students’ incoming and outgoing email messages. Ensure that messages are appropriate to age, setting and context.

53. Level 1All messages must be approved by the monitor, whether they contain profanity or not. Level 2Messages containing profanity must be approved by the monitor, but unflagged messages will reach their recipients automatically. The monitor will also receive a copy of every unflagged message. Level 3Messages containing profanity must be approved by the monitor, but unflagged messages will reach their recipients automatically. The monitor will not see unflagged messages. Level 4All profanity filters are off. Filter Levels

54. ePals SchoolMail

55. This is a close-up of what you’ll see in the middle of your screen when you log in to monitor student email. Note: Click “flagged student messages.”

58. Class/MonitorStudents are limited to mailing other students who have the same monitor. Choose this access level if you want students to use email only for internal exercises within the classroom. SchoolStudents are limited to mailing students and teachers in the same school. Choose this access level if you want students to use email only for school-based projects and communication. DistrictThis option, available only if your ePALS SchoolMail™ system includes multiple schools, limits students to mailing students and teachers at schools created within your system. Choose this access level if you want students to use email only for district- and school-based projects and communication.. and……. Six Access Levels (if set up as a district account)

59. ePals SchoolMail™ This restricts student communication to other students with an ePals SchoolMail account regardless of school / district ePals Global Allows students to communicate with other students Communitywith active accounts in the ePals Global Community. InternetThis option allows your students to email anyone with an email address, whether they are inside your district, part of ePALS or using the Internet through other means. Choose this access level to allow students to email anyone, anywhere. Six Access Levels

60. Goals Teaching with global connections Stories of collaboration and projects for learning Using free tools to find and connect: ePals –Wisconsin Connects! www.ltgov.wisconsin.govwww.ltgov.wisconsin.gov –Global Community (classroom matching) –SchoolMail TM –SchoolBlog TM –Teacher and student forums What are my first steps? How do I add global collaborative learning to my classroom? More resources

61. Start with ePals in 3 easy steps: Step 1: Come up with a GREAT idea! Step 2: Find Partners Step 3: Create a Plan

62. Step 1: Come up with a GREAT idea! Check out The Way We Are Classroom Project to start a popular project http://content.epals.com/projects/info.asp x?DivID=TheWayWeAre_overview http://content.epals.com/projects/info.asp x?DivID=TheWayWeAre_overview Compare how you celebrate a holiday (Mardi Gras) in your area with how it is celebrated in other classrooms across your state or across the world!

63. Project Search

65. Step 2: Find Partners Submit your ePals Classroom Profile to share your project idea Wait for profile approval Reach out to other classrooms through Classroom Match

66. Search by Location 1 st - Select a Continent

67. 2nd - Select a Country

68. 3rd - Select a classroom from the list of profiles

69. Eliminate language barriers with translation tool!

70. English version of the Spanish profile

74. Active Participation in the Community Starts with a Classroom Profile Creating a Classroom Profile is an important first step in active participation in the global community. Teachers can’t contact other classrooms without having a profile submitted and approved.

75. ePals Global Community Classroom Match – Create Your Classroom Profile

77. A Successful Profile Includes: 1.Age-range of class 2.Language(s) the students speak 3.Location of the classroom 4.Location of desired partner

78. A Successful Profile Includes: 5.Collaboration tools (email, postal mail, blogs, video conferences) 6.Length of desired collaboration 7.Frequency of desired collaboration (weekly, monthly, at holidays) 8.Topic of desired collaboration (You can update this when you have a new project in mind!)

79. ePals Global Community Classroom Match – Submit Your Classroom Profile

80. Step 3: Create a Plan Create a Project Outline Introductory Lessons –Introducing Internet Safety to Students –Written Communication: Letter Writing vs. Email vs. Texting, etc. –Set Expectations (email rubric)

81. Step 3: Create a Plan Create a Project Outline Look at state standards Introductory Lessons Email within your OWN classroom –Round robin story writing –Current event response –Vocabulary integration –Data collection and analysis Go global with ePals

82. Step 3: Create a Plan Create a Project Outline Look at state standards Introductory Lessons Email within your OWN classroom Go global with ePals –Yearlong ePals –Project-based ePals

83. Goals Teaching with global connections Stories of collaboration and projects for learning Using free tools to find and connect: ePals –Wisconsin Connects! www.ltgov.wisconsin.govwww.ltgov.wisconsin.gov –Global Community (classroom matching) –SchoolMail TM –SchoolBlog TM –Teacher and student forums What are my first steps? How do I add global collaborative learning to my classroom? More resources

84. Training and Resource Blog http://sites.epals.com/ePalsTraining Training resources Reaching the NETS with ePals Integration ideas Video resources Classroom resources Sample parent and student permission forms

85. Join the Conversation Do you have any questions about ePals?

86. ePals SchoolM@il – Customer Fulfillment ePals has a team of Activation Specialists that will assist you every step of the way: –Provide assistance in uploading accounts for your teachers and students –Provide online training materials for you and your teachers –Schedule “Getting Started” webinars –Offer “After-School” webinar sessions for you and your teachers To contact our team or schedule a Webinar session please send an email to: sales@corp.epals.com 86

87. ePals SchoolM@il – Online Tools SchoolM@il Login Location: www.epals.com SchoolM@il Administrator’s Guide can be found at: http://www.epals.com/schoolmail/admin/support/manual/SM_Admin _v26.pdf SchoolM@il Teacher’s Guide can be found at: http://www.epals.com/schoolmail/documentation/SM_Teacher_v20. pdf “How to Get the Most Out of ePals” http://www.epals.com/help/#s07 87

88. ePals Customer Fulfillment Team Victoria McEachern, Vice President, Customer Fulfillment and Management vmceachern@corp.epals.com Rita Oates, Ph.D., Vice President, Education Markets roates@corp.epals.com Jacky Little, Account Activation jlittle@corp.epals.com Julie Martin, Sales Administrator jmartin@corp.epals.com ePals Customer Fulfillment Team (General Delivery Mailbox) sales@corp.epals.com ePals Support Team (unlimited email support) smsupport@corp.epals.com 88