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ePals Corporation (TSX VENTURE: SLN), an education media company and the world's
leading safe social learning network, today announced the launch of the all-new
ePals, significantly enhancing its online collaborative capabilities. ePals
provides a one-stop learning solution, combining access to local, national and
international classroom matching, standards-aligned projects, and private
customizable group workspaces. ePals connects more than 800,000 classrooms
across 200 countries and reaches over 27 million students, teachers and parents
for engaging and rigorous authentic learning experiences. Projects feature
top-quality content that address 21st century skills, collaboration, digital
literacy, critical thinking and writing aligned to state, national and
international standards, including the Common Core ELA State Standards.


At the core of the all-new ePals is its intelligent matching and project
creation capabilities. Built to capture a classroom's profile and learning
objectives, contextualize the information, and use it to anticipate
compatibility across an international network of project-based learning
communities, ePals not only maximizes the likelihood of finding the right
classroom partners, it helps teachers drive student engagement and get the most
out of each collaborative learning opportunity.


New Additions and Enhancements to ePals include:

A Better Way to Match with Classrooms -- It's easier than ever for ePals
educators to find and connect with other classrooms for project-based learning
focused on literacy, culture, science and other standards-aligned topics.



MatchSense(TM) - automatically recommends classroom partners and projects based
on member profiles, goals and interests, and displays a dynamic list of
recommended partners on the member's homepage 



Dynamic Search - allows educators to find classrooms based on their choice of
specific interests (e.g. poetry, water conservation), language, geographic
location, age/skill levels, and number of students, collaboration goals and
project duration



Collaboration Tables - ePals members can find or create a project for teaching a
subject of their choosing, and invite others to join, within their own
classroom, with parents, across a grade, with a partner classroom or including
whole groups of classrooms





Upgraded Suite of Collaborative Tools -- provide educators with safe, private,
customizable Web 2.0 workspaces for each of their projects.


Each workspace includes a blog, media gallery and discussion forum -- accessible
only to the educators and students invited to be part of that group. As a
complement to ePals' policy managed email service, SchoolMail(R), the
collaboration tables provide a safe way for students in different classrooms,
locally or across the world, to share their experiences, ideas, and resources.


Expanded, Easy-To-Browse Project Library -- where ePals members can search,
discover and create new projects.



The Project Library, continually enhanced by teacher-contributed projects,
showcases outstanding projects from leading content partners and members 

Projects are classroom-ready, and uniquely designed for online collaboration
including instructional plans, culminating activities, and related resources 

A unique template-driven structure lets teachers easily adopt projects and
customize them for their own uses, or create their own from scratch 

Featured projects include National Geographic's "The Way We Are," "Poetic Social
Mission," presented by ONE DROP and "Avoiding the Path to Panem," ePals' newest
featured project presented by Educurious, and based on the popular Hunger Games
trilogy



Rich, Multi-Disciplinary Student-Centric Learning Centers -- ePals' new Learning
Centers are designed to encourage independent student learning and feature
standards-aligned content, activities, multimedia, and teacher resources.


Featured Learning Centers currently include:


Smithsonian on ePals - Featured exhibits and learning activities from one of the
world's most respected museum and research complexes 

The Creative Writing Center - Tips, galleries and prompts to inspire creative
writing 

We Are ePals Center - Where members share and celebrate their unique cultures 
Global Citizens - Member stories about how kids helps others in their
communities and across the world 

The Science Center - Where students and teachers can find experiments, articles
and activities 

In2Books (R) Book Club - A place for students to chat about books, publish book
reviews and explore genres 



Learning Centers include interdisciplinary explorations of a shared topic or
theme. The first featured exploration is "The Perfect Storm: An Adventure
Through the World of Wild Weather" showcasing a variety of weather-related
projects, articles, and activities from National Geographic, the Smithsonian,
and Cobblestone & Cricket, two of ePals' award winning children's magazines.
For a limited time, ePals members can download "The Perfect Storm," a free
digital compilation of six award-winning Cobblestone & Cricket magazines, to
explore weather, natural hazards and more.


Game Center -- ePals' Game Room provides a safe place for students around the
world to match and learn together through, multi-player games that build
strategy and logic skills, with an initial offering that includes games such as
Cobblestone & Cricket's Build a Machine and Spider Match, Scientists at
Work, Chess, and Sudoku.


"Despite the advance of new media technologies, teachers everywhere remain
limited in their ability to access the tools that most effectively foster
21st-century learning skills. ePals offers a new kind of social discovery
network where teachers, students and mentors connect and collaborate in a safe
and secure environment that motivates students and engages them in the world
beyond traditional classroom boundaries. This newest version of our service
reflects deep support for teachers and students as they explore how to make
social media an integral part of their day-to-day learning, while promoting
cross-cultural exchange, language learning and global awareness," says ePals
Chairman and CEO Miles Gilburne. "We know that collaborative learning motivates
students and develops many of the critical thinking, writing and problem solving
skills demanded by the 21st century workplace. At a time when innovation in
education is more important than ever, our new offering sets a new standard for
safe meaningful collaborative learning both during and after school hours."


For more information about the ePals Global Learning Network, visit www.epals.com.

About ePals Corporation
ePals Corporation (TSX VENTURE: SLN) is an education media company and the
leading provider of safe social learning networks (SLN). Focused on the K-12
market, ePals offers elementary and secondary school administrators, teachers,
students and parents worldwide a safe and secure platform for building
educational communities, providing quality digital content and facilitating
collaboration for effective 21st century learning. ePals' award-winning products
include: the ePals Global Learning Network; SchoolMail(R)365; LearningSpace(R);
In2Books(R), a common core eMentoring program that builds reading, writing and
critical thinking skills; and popular children's educational publishing brands
including Cricket(R) and Cobblestone(R). ePals customers and partners include
the International Baccalaureate, Microsoft Corporation, Dell Inc., IBM Corp.,
National Geographic and leading school districts across the United States and
globally. ePals serves approximately 800,000 classrooms and reaches millions of
teachers, students and parents in approximately 200 countries and territories.
Visit www.epals.com. For In2Books, visit www.In2Books.com.

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