Collaboration is enhanced through
the wireless ACTIVslate which permits instructional mobility in the classroom
while enhancing student engagement and reducing disciplinary issues."
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."
On May 25th, US Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Senator Lamar
Alexander of Tennessee introduced a bill that would appropriate $1.

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Initially, the focus will be on matching 60,000 English-speaking
primary and secondary / K-12 schools in the U.
"ePALS has extensive experience with developing tools for online
communities and managing online exchanges across different cultures," said
Yong Zhao, Ph. educators and students . Schools within the following major U.

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

S., 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. The
China Portal is an extension of the company's existing global network and the
first ePALS countrywide version. "ePALS is introducing
many Chinese students to common-use English and will help teachers in China
use web-based language teaching more effectively."
The ePALS Chinese-English Language and Learning Portal will enable
teachers and students to communicate in a safe, supervised, and multilingual
electronic messaging environment.
In preparation for the September launch, ePALS is accepting registrations
for its China Portal from educators and administrators around the world at
http://www.

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Promethean and Academic Benchmarks Align Teacher Lesson Plans to State Education Standards

The thousands of
standards -based flipchart lessons will be available to all Promethean users in
a searchable database that can be queried by state, subject area, grade level
and keyword.K. 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.6 million students and teachers in 191 countries.corp.

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"Having our lesson plans aligned to state education standards will not
only help ensure teachers are instructing based on what states have mandated,
but also save them time by providing quality, turn-key tools for instruction,"
said Mark Elliott , president of Promethean, Inc. 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.S."
"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.

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Promethean ACTIVclassroom solutions are helping educators teach and
students learn worldwide.
"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. "We'd like our schools to share Texas history,
science, environmental issues, language, reading, writing and art with schools
in China.
Founded in 1996, ePALS Classroom Exchange (http://www.: 1 (888) 770-3333 or 613 562-9847 x151
Email: sstrickland@epals.

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please visit http://www.

About Academic Benchmarks
Academic Benchmarks ( http://www.
Teachers and students use the ePALS network for cross-cultural project
sharing, foreign language practice and international classroom-to-classroom
exchanges.
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Standards-aligned flipchart lessons will be available spring 2006 for all
Promethean users.epals .

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Created for use with the Promethean interactive whiteboard, the ready-made
flipchart lessons are available in a range of K-12 subject areas including
core curriculum and other areas such as technology, visual arts, and health
education.
Teachers and educators around the world developed the flipchart lessons
for the interactive whiteboard to include text, video, web, and digital
content using Promethean's award-winning ACTIVprimary and ACTIVstudio lesson
development software. Used in conjunction with ACTIVotes, Promethean's formative
assessment devices, teachers have access to a complete learning solution tied
to state education standards.
Academic Benchmarks organizes standards in a consistent yet flexible format,
maintaining the integrity of the original documents and delivering timely
standards to its clients, which include Houghton Mifflin, Scantron
Corporation , Compass Learning, ETS Pulliam, and netTrekker. 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).

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Beyond the
classroom, Promethean offers comprehensive training and support services to
ensure maximum results and realization on investment.
The group is headquartered in Blackburn, UK, and has overseas offices in
the USA (Atlanta, Ga.
"Internet based cultural and language exchanges between classrooms is a
clear trend in global education technology," says Tim DiScipio.

About ePALS Classroom Exchange, Inc.

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Their flexible, extensible, web-based alignment tools offer
a unique and configurable blend of automated and manual alignments resulting
in a cost-effective, efficient, sustainable, and reliable system for
maintaining up-to-date standards and alignments., Director, US-China Center for Research on Educational
Excellence at the College of Education, Michigan State University.com/china .

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"Our alignment tools ensure that Promethean lessons now
address the needs of students and meet state education standards.

About the Academic Benchmark Standards
Academic Benchmarks is the largest and fastest-growing aggregator of K-12
education standards, providing continuously updated databases of standards, as
well as other education -based services, with turnkey delivery systems. Schools from the United Kingdom have also agreed to
participate. 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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To
further increase class interactivity and formatively assess individual student
or group progress, students can use the wireless ACTIVote device. Approximately 1,500-2,000 teachers register with the ePALS Global
Network each month in order to connect with foreign classrooms.

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ATLANTA, Promethean, a global leader in interactive
learning technology, announced today the alignment of its flipchart lessons
and resources for teachers to state education standards.
Developed by and for educators, Promethean's curriculum delivery and
assessment technologies enable teachers to create, customize and integrate
texts , Web, video and audio content to interactively capture students'
attention and accommodate their different learning styles. By closely
collaborating with educators worldwide in the development of new pedagogy-
based technologies, Promethean supports local curriculum standards while
providing tools to formatively assess student performance instantly and ensure
their success.), France, Germany and China. They provide the most comprehensive,
accurate, technically sound, and up-to-date collection of state, district,
local, national, and international standards to all segments of the K-12
education market.D.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.

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"Promethean's license to our collection of state, district, and national
education standards provides teachers access to engaging materials that
reliably support a standards-based curriculum," said Kelly Peet, president of
Academic Benchmarks.

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Teachers can take the lessons and implement them in the
classroom as they are, or edit and customize the lessons to meet their special
needs.com/n-america . These
exchanges have great potential in promoting cross-cultural understanding and
language learning for American and Chinese students alike.com

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Promethean's integrated ACTIVclassroom empowers teachers to deliver rich,
animated and sound-enabled content to enliven classroom experiences and
learning.com ) is the
definitive source for standards and alignment tools, and has been developing
educational technologies since 1989. It will revolutionize EFL
(English as a Foreign Language ) in China. 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.

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"I believe
ePALS has the right image, momentum and technology to serve as a major
platform for exchanges between Chinese and U. 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. "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.

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About Promethean
Promethean is a global leader in interactive learning technology helping
to empower teachers to engage, educate, assess and motivate students ., Canada, the U.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 .

Contact:
Sheila Strickland
ePALS Classroom Exchange, Inc.

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ePALS currently connects 4. ePALS is working closely with partners and
education ministries worldwide to customize the matching process for each
participating country.S.S.epalscorp.

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-- Chinese cross-cultural exchanges (online and face-to-face and
Chinese language study in US schools.

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By partnering with Academic Benchmarks, the leading provider of K-12
academic curriculum standards and alignment tools for education, Promethean
has access to the state standards data, including both core- and non-core
subjects to align with its lesson plans. From ACTIVstudio and ACTIVprimary software that
helps teachers prepare lessons from multiple media sources and interactively
present on ACTIVboard, the industry's most durable interactive whiteboard,
Promethean's solutions are class-leading. 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.

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3 billion
for U. The
company supports over 2 million K-12 email and eMentor accounts and 15 million
page views to its site every month.