ePALS

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ePALS
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ePALS

• Communicating with other students around the
  world through email

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Key Features

• Monitored mail accounts with filters
• controlled environment..authorized users only
• multilingual profanity and unacceptable language
  filter lists
• instant language translation
• create discussion boards with private chat rooms
  for everyone or a specific audience.

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How?

• Each 6th Grade Student has an email account
  at the school
• Log onto the Internet
• Sign On to ePALS

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Why?

• 60 Of The Multiple Choice Questions Deal
  with Telecommunications
• Students Learn About Ethical Issues
• Integrates Into Curriculum

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What Do I Need To Do To Participate?

1. Decide by Team how you will monitor.
2. Determine A Subject Area Of Integration
3. See your Media Specialist or Technology
   Facilitator For Username and Password
4. Learn How To Use Your ePALS Account
5. Find A Classroom to communicate with
6. Print out your Student usernames
7. Password tempass

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What Must My Students Know Before Using Epals?

1. Parents Must Sign AUP For ePALS
2. Obey The Code Of Conduct
3. Have A Clear Understanding of Consequences
4. School Use Only
5. Email That Is Questionable Will Be Sent To
   Teacher Before Being Sent

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What Must I Know As A Teacher?

1. You Are The Monitor
2. Check Epal Email Regularly
3. Questionable Emails Should Be Reported
4. Have A Lesson Plan For Epal Usage and A Lesson
   Plan For Students Who Are Not Allowed To
   Participate With Epals

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Filter Levels

• Help you determine whether a message is likely to
  contain questionable content.
• Does it need to be approved by you before
  reaching its destination?

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Filter Levels

• Level 1 - Every message sent and received must be
  approved by the monitor.
• Level 2 - Monitor receives a copy of every
  message but you must approve only those which
  contain profanity.
• Level 3 - You will only receive messages that
  contain profanity.
• Level 4 - All content filters are off.

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Your email address...

• teacher user names are the same as for your
  exchange mail (username)_at_(school).guilford.epals.c
  omi.e. varsamd_at_kiser.guilford.epals.com
• student user names are first name last initial
  i.e. marye_at_kiser.guilford.epals.com

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Organization

• District Administrator Michael Parrish
  370-8000parrism_at_guilford.k12.nc.us
• Sub Administrators Karen Williams, Mary Evans,
  and Maude Caudle
• add/delete students and teachers/reset passwords,
  create filters.

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• Teachers
• monitor flagged email
• check personal email
• participate in teacher talk, discussions and chat
  rooms
• integrate ePALS into your curriculum area.
• Students
• send and receive email with attachments

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Principals

• Support teachers and sub-administrators by
  setting consequences for students who misuse this
  student email resource.

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How do I Log On to ePALS?

• On this page, click on Resources
• Then click on ePALS. he Following Is The Screen
  You Will See

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To Log On

• Scroll down
• Enter
• Username
• Password
• tempass
• Click Login

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First time you log on..

• You will be prompted to change your password. I
• Your Choice The Screen You Will See

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When You Log Onto ePALS