BOSTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- ePals to provide Kenyan classrooms with the largest social network for
meaningful learning

The Kenyan Ministry of Education will provide the opportunity for their
students and educators to safely connect with schools around the world
through ePals (http://www.epals.com), the largest and fastest growing global
network for meaningful learning. Leveraging the safe, protected and
collaborative learning and e-mentoring tools available through ePals, Kenyan
students and educators can connect with classrooms in 200 countries and
territories, conducting cross-cultural exchanges, language learning practice,
and project-based collaboration to build the 21st century skills necessary to
succeed in a global economy.

"We've watched the impact some of our schools are having using ePals and
feel it is critical we empower all our educators and students to collaborate
with peers around the world," said Barnabas Sang, Head of ICT for the Kenyan
Ministry of Education. "ePals offers a large and diverse online learning
community, a safe environment and a set of collaborative learning activities
and projects that are grounded in best practices for building 21st century
skills. This enables our classrooms to make meaningful learning connections
with other schools worldwide."

Through thousands of ePals exchanges in Africa and ongoing pilots in
Nakuru, Kenya, the company's continued efforts provide African students and
educators with the ability to create free cross-cultural pen pal and
project-based collaborative programs in a safe, protected context using
ePals.com and its rich set of leading school communication tools. ePals also
has partnered with National Geographic to bring rich digital content to the
ePals site, providing in-depth projects and enhancing global perspective. In
addition, ePals' safe learning community, connectivity tools and digital
literacy curricula give educators the opportunity to help their students'
build 21st century digital literacy and learning skills. The company also
recently partnered with Intel to offer access to its safe and connected
Global Learning Community to users of the Intel-powered classmate PC
worldwide, including schools throughout Africa.

"The Kenyan Ministry of Education is dedicated to preparing their
students to become global citizens, and ePals will enable that collaborative
connection to help Kenyan schools embrace those learning opportunities," said
Tim DiScipio, Co-Founder of ePals. "ePals provides educators worldwide the
opportunity to bring safe social learning networks into the classroom and
begin collaborative project sharing that enables 21st century learning
regardless of geography, cultural background or economic status. This helps
students become important contributors to the global experience, and
ultimately, benefit the global workplace."

To support educators in transforming learning, ePals is providing
professional development opportunities to educators interested in
incorporating social networking tools for meaningful project-based learning.
Barnabas Sang will be speaking during a special ePals pre-conference event
during Alan November's Building Learning Communities 2008 Conference hosted
by ePals. The one-day event, held today in Boston, Mass., also will feature
ePals executives, educators and instructional technology directors. Speakers
will address language learning, digital literacy, cross-cultural pen pal
projects, district-wide implementation, how to post podcasts on blogs, and
how to connect families with teachers through blogs to help support learning
outside of the classroom. For more information about the ePals 
Globally-Connected Classroom Conference, visit 
http://www.epals.com/conference.

For more information about ePals and activities within the global
community, please visit http://www.epalscorp.com.

About ePals, Inc.

Founded in 1996 and merged with In2Books in 2006, ePals offers K-12
students and teachers around the world a safe environment for building and
exchanging knowledge based on protected connectivity tools, evidence-based
curricula and authentic, collaborative learning experiences. The ePals Global
Learning Community(TM) (http://www.epals.com) is the largest online community
of K-12 learners, enabling half a million educators across 200 countries and
territories to safely connect, exchange ideas, and work together. The
company's mission is to support lifelong learning through collaborative
experiences that empower and inspire. ePals is especially committed to
enabling academically rigorous educational opportunities in economically
disadvantaged environments worldwide through the ePals Foundation -- provider
of In2Books, the company's flagship literacy e-mentoring program.

Web site: http://www.epals.com
              http://www.epalscorp.com
              http://www.epals.com/conference