ePALS Classroom Exchange to Connect Chinese and English-Speaking Students to
Exchange Culture and Practice Language Skills

NEW YORK, ePALS Classroom Exchange, the Internet's
largest collaborative classroom network, will launch a Chinese-English
Language and Learning Portal in September enabling its 103,000 global
classrooms to connect with Chinese schools in a teacher-supervised online
environment.
"Internet based cultural and language exchanges between classrooms is a
clear trend in global education technology," says Tim DiScipio.6 million students and teachers in 191 countries.corp. With the company's Listen + View(TM) technology, students actually
hear the teacher's voice and see the teacher's handwriting as they illustrate
math concepts and solve problems. The
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Initially, the focus will be on matching 60,000 English-speaking
primary and secondary / K-12 schools in the U. Schools within the following major U.

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These
exchanges have great potential in promoting cross-cultural understanding and
language learning for American and Chinese students alike.
Teachers and students use the ePALS network for cross-cultural project
sharing, foreign language practice and international classroom-to-classroom
exchanges. Approximately 1,500-2,000 teachers register with the ePALS Global
Network each month in order to connect with foreign classrooms. NutshellMath is available at http://www.
"This is a significant leap forward in the way students, parents and
teachers work together to help improve math skills," said Johannes Larcher,
president and CEO of Academy123.

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Email: sstrickland@epals . Teachers can play games from the disc that
challenges students and test their understanding.

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"ePALS is introducing
many Chinese students to common-use English and will help teachers in China
use web-based language teaching more effectively., Academy123(TM), an
innovative provider of multimedia homework help and self-study guides, today
announced the launch of NutshellMath(TM), a groundbreaking math homework
instructional service. Teachers will find they can adopt the SUPER SIZE ME
EDUCATIONALLY ENHANCED(R) curriculum as a core portion of their lesson
plans over several weeks, or use it to reinforce the lessons they
already teach.

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ePALS has the right image, momentum and technology to serve as a major
platform for exchanges between Chinese and U.S. The
company supports over 2 million K-12 email and eMentor accounts and 15 million
page views to its site every month.

ESL is the learning and teaching of the English language to people who are not native speakers of English , that is, that do not have English as their mother tongue.

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Our trusted
brand combined with the interaction of our loyal teacher base contributes to
learning across the global curriculum spectrum, building literacy and language
skills, and preparing students for global challenges.

Contact:
Sheila Strickland
ePALS Classroom Exchange, Inc.
Tel. It is aligned, page-for -page, with leading Pre-Algebra, Algebra I,
Algebra II, and Geometry textbooks used by middle and high school math
students. NutshellMath also offers interactive
quizzes to check for mastery of subjects.

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(English as a Foreign Language) in China."
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The ePALS Chinese-English Language and Learning Portal will enable
teachers and students to communicate in a safe, supervised, and multilingual
electronic messaging environment. school
districts have already begun or agreed to participate in online exchanges with
Chinese schools: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Dallas (Texas) East Hartford
(Connecticut) ,New York, Houston (Texas) Miami (Florida), Newark (New Jersey)
and San Antonio (Texas).
Founded in 1996, ePALS Classroom Exchange (http://www. The online service provides users with nearly
40 ,000 interactive math explanations and multimedia demonstrations of math
concepts. One
is to allow a series of pop-up screens to appear that provide
additional facts and figures related to scenes in the movie.

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ePALS is the
pioneer and leader in school-safe email, eMentoring and web-browsing
technology for the global K-12 / primary and secondary education market.

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Comchoice, the
company hired to author the DVD in conjunction with MCREL worked
meticulously to ensure that all the materials, activities and lessons
are linked to major national standards required in literacy, health,
physical science, life skills and other subjects.

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World's Largest Online Classroom Network Set to Launch Major Chinese-English Language and Learning Portal

, Australia,
New Zealand and Ireland with schools in China, enabling Chinese teachers and
students to practice English language skills while English-speaking schools
learn Chinese history , culture and language.6 million educators and students in
191 countries and receives 1,500 to 2,000 new school registrations each month
from teachers seeking to connect their students with foreign classrooms. The lessons offered by NutshellMath's teachers deliver customized
and timely homework help into the home.

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S., Director, US-China Center for Research on Educational
Excellence at the College of Education, Michigan State University.

About ePALS Classroom Exchange, Inc.
Director Morgan Spurlock has re-edited the film and removed
certain language and scenes to create a new PG version of the movie
which viewers can watch from start to finish in a family or
educational environment , or they can choose from a series of menu
options to incorporate learning tools in their viewing experience. A list of these
standards and how they are addressed by each lesson is included on the
disc.

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"We'd like our schools to share Texas history,
science, environmental issues, language, reading, writing and art with schools
in China. "We are using
our large global classroom network and safe, multi-lingual technology to build
the backbone of educational communication, collaboration , language practice
and content delivery between China and the world's classrooms.3 billion
for U.

About Academy123
Academy123 is a leading provider of homework help and self-study guides
for quantitative subjects throughout middle and high school.

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, Canada, the U."
The portal was pre-announced in April during a keynote address by Tim
DiScipio, Chairman and Co-founder of ePALS Classroom Exchange, in Xi'an, China
at The Third National Contest of Innovation and Practices of Information
Technologies for K-12 Education conference sponsored by the Chinese Ministry
of Education .
In preparation for the September launch, ePALS is accepting registrations
for its China Portal from educators and administrators around the world at
http://www.
In addition to content aligned to leading textbooks, NutshellMath also
offers browsable and searchable lessons, explanations, problems , solutions and
quizzes for all conceivable math subjects.

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ePALS currently connects 4. Students first locate their textbook on the
NutshellMath site, then search by page number for help with specific homework
problems or to see lesson overviews. Academy123 products are used for homework help,
classroom support, test preparation and educational enrichment.

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com, and is currently
offering a two-week free trial.

Regarding terminology, 'ESL' is the term commonly used in the USA, in Canada it is also known as English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), and in the rest of the world it is known as English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

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ePALS is working closely with partners and
education ministries worldwide to customize the matching process for each
participating country. Looking at the
accelerated growth of electronic linkage between classrooms and its impact on
21st century learning, we project that within 2 years, three to four million
Chinese students will be using ePALS ' portal to participate in English
language and cross-cultural studies.com.

The SUPER SIZE ME EDUCATIONALLY ENHANCED(R)
edition incorporates unique educational content into the original
documentary film and will be released February 28, 2005 on DVD.

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"ePALS has extensive experience with developing tools for online
communities and managing online exchanges across different cultures ," said
Yong Zhao, Ph. "By providing this affordable online tool to
their children, parents provide real homework help for their kids struggling
with math."
NutshellMath is easy to use. Another
option is to turn directly to 24 standardized lessons in health
education, life skills and language arts, integrated with math,
science and social studies.
After the film was a blockbuster in the US and throughout the
world, Spurlock took it upon himself to ensure that young people got
his message and scheduled a tour of schools across the country.

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-- Chinese cross-cultural exchanges (online and face-to-face and
Chinese language study in US schools.com/china .nutshellmath.academy123 .

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The
China Portal is an extension of the company's existing global network and the
first ePALS countrywide version.
"We want to use Chinese culture as our theme for the year", said Becky
Ernsberger , a school technology coordinator within the Dallas, Texas
Independent School District.com ) is
the largest and fastest-growing online collaborative classroom network,
connecting more than 103,000 registered primary and secondary (K-12) schools
and classrooms, comprising 4. Watch a
demonstration at http://www.

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D.epalscorp. Combining
instruction by certified teachers with its proprietary Listen and View(TM)
technology, Academy123 delivers rich and expressive multimedia content in a
wide variety of subjects.
This action-packed SUPER SIZE ME EDUCATIONALLY ENHANCED(R) will
not only captivate students - but lead them to learning key skills and
knowledge as required by state and national standards.

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The company will integrate basic
Chinese and English language learning tools into the portal as well as the
company's proprietary school-safe, multi-lingual email and eMentoring tools to
power the collaboration between classrooms. The conference was hosted by Net Time and co -sponsored by the
National Association of Innovations, the Government of Shan'xi Province, and
the Department of Education of Shan'xi Province, The conference drew 1,200
attendees from 26 provinces and cities in China, including principals from 600
large and innovative schools, who met to discuss the use of IT in schools.epals.com

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Real teachers provide supplemental instruction , lesson overviews, and help
for every homework problem found in 32 of the most commonly used math
textbooks.

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- Aligned Page-By-Page With Leading Math Textbooks -

- Explains Nearly 40,000 Math Problems -

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. Once they've selected a specific problem
from their textbook, they then view an interactive explanation of how to solve
a very similar problem to the one found in their textbook. Each SUPER SIZE ME EDUCATIONALLY
ENHANCED (R) DVD comes with a teacher's guide, printable lesson plans,
student handouts, and links to other resources and web sites.

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"ePALS helps my students learn English," said Yaodong Chen, an English
teacher at a school in Liuzhou, China, who has used ePALS to connect 500 of
his Chinese students with English speaking students. Schools from the United Kingdom have also agreed to
participate .