Denver, Colo. (Sept. 8, 2010) – eNetColorado announced today an alliance with ePals, Inc., that will benefit schools, educators and students across the state as they return to school this fall. Focusing on building collaboration and communication skills using 21st century technologies, ePals has been selected to be a preferred provider of safe, collaborative K-12 technology solutions to all Colorado schools.

ePals’ safe and protected Global Community and SchoolMail products, connecting more than 600,000 classrooms globally, are free to school districts and will uniquely assist eNetColorado in creating and delivering online tools for staff development and classroom settings that support Colorado’s statewide 21st Century Classrooms initiative in the 27 high-needs districts and 150 overall school districts served by Colorado’s 14 Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). eNetColorado is also working in partnership with the following organizations: Colorado Department of Education: Colorado Education Association (CEA), Colorado Association of School Executives (CASE), Colorado Association of School Boards (CASB), and the Colorado BOCES Association (CBA).

ePals is also making available its LearningSpace™ product at preferred prices to interested schools and school districts throughout the state. ePals LearningSpace is a web hosted solution that provides a safe virtual workspace optimized for K-12 communication and collaboration. LearningSpace is a unique solution for transforming learning using 21st century technologies in a safe online context (www.learningspace.epals.com).

“Using ePals, Colorado students will benefit from the ability to collaborate and communicate safely on their class work using 21st Century technology,” said Dan Morris from eNetColorado. “Our schools will also be able to connect with classrooms across the state of Colorado and worldwide for teacher-supervised learning and collaborative project-sharing in a way that truly engages the student in the learning process.”

“ePals provides an effective way to instruct and reach today’s technology-savvy students and teachers, who want to use the power of online experiences to transform learning,” said Tim DiScipio, Co-Founder of ePals, Inc. “By working with eNetColorado, ePals solutions -- which center on meaningful content and experiences that promote collaboration, digital literacy skills, higher-level thinking and communication – will help a larger number of Colorado’s students build critical skills needed for success in today’s world.”

More Information

Visit www.epals.com.

About ePals Inc.

A privately-held education technology company, ePals Inc., has created the world's largest K-12 learning network. ePals offers primary and secondary schools, 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 is used by more than 600,000 educators and reaches more than 25 million students and parents in 200 counties and territories. www.ePals.com. Corporate information is available at www.corp.ePals.com.

About eNetColorado

eNetColorado is a central network to collect, house, deliver, and share professional development resources and tools for collaboration across the state. eNetColorado is dedicated to enhancing learning by developing programs, aggregating resources, and identifying and using best practices that support student achievement across the state of Colorado. At eNetColorado, learning professionals access technology tools including web conferencing, online course delivery platforms, cloud-based applications, web 2.0 tools, and more. eNetColorado provides leadership to enhance learning and staff development using technology for all Colorado educators and students, and it leverages shared networking to utilize available resources effectively and efficiently. More information is available at www.enetcolorado.org.

Contacts

ePals, Inc.
Isha Yilla
703-885-3482
iyilla at corp.epals dot com
www.corp.epals.com

C. Blohm & Associates, Inc.
Emily Embury
608-839-9800
emily at cblohm dot com
www.cblohm.com

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