Features such as Epails SchoolM@il allow teachers to share information with their students and parents to promote safe and efficient communication.
Learningspace is a tool similar to Googledocs, however more focused towards the use by elementary and secondary students. It allows teachers to facilitate learning through group projects and shared learning experiences through a multitude of variables (global collaboration, school clubs, etc.). Through this tool, students are able to share documents, read from wikis and blogs, and submit work to a teacher.
Lastly, through Epals Global Community, users are able to search from global classrooms similar to their own to get ideas for projects, or learning styles. Also, a forum from National Geographic shares project ideas for all users facilitated through monitored emails.
Epals and the tools it provides for users can be used to show and share students how the learning of topics that they are familiar with is done throughout the world. The use of the National Geographic forum and forums from other teachers gives all types of users and interactive and technological viewpoint towards new information. I enjoy that students are not only able to receive new information from this site, but also to share projects with group or club members, their teachers and parents all while being monitored in a safe and efficient manner.
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I also like the fact that the students themselves are sharing their work and their insights.
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