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ePALS Classroom Exchange, the largest online classroom
ePALS Classroom Exchange, the largest online classroom community and leading provider of school-safe email solutions, with LearningStation.com, Inc., the leading Application Service Provider (ASP) to the educational market, today announced a strategic partnership establishing ePALS SchoolMail™ as a preferred email system to be integrated into LearningStation’s Education DesktopSM throughout the nation.
The strategic relationship launches with ePALS SchoolMail being selected as a primary email system to be used in 1,250 schools throughout the State of Arizona. As part of the K-12 educational platform for the State, “The Arizona ASP Project,” ePALS has been contracted by LearningStation to license English and Spanish versions of its school-safe email, SchoolMail, to be used by up to 650,000 users in Arizona Schools.
This is the starting point of a relationship that will expand the ePALS SchoolMail offering to LearningStation subscribers across the United States. “Our partnership with ePALS will enable LearningStation to expand our product offering to include one of the nation’s most highly respected e-mail solutions currently available today. ePALS’ deep commitment to the education industry has led the company to develop a fully-filtered and secure e-mail environment for education users—both English and Spanish speaking users,” said Durral Gilbert, Vice President, Corporate Development at LearningStation. He goes on to say, “The addition of ePALS to our Education DesktopSM will enhance the safe and productive communicating capabilities of the thousands of students and teachers throughout the nation that use LearningStation everyday.”
“We are very pleased to begin our partnership with the LearningStation a component of the ‘Arizona Project’ and LearningStation’s Education DesktopSM,” said John Irving, CEO and Co-Founder of ePALS Classroom Exchange. “ePALS SchoolMail provides both the security and multilingual features mandated by the Arizona School Facilities Board. By integrating our leading ASP email solution with the LearningStation’s Education Desktop platform, students across the nation wide will benefit from safe communication and collaborative tools that are essential for curricular success in the 21st century.”
About LearningStation
LearningStation, a leading provider of customized portal solutions, focuses on helping schools authentically engage students in learning through innovative applications and web-based learning tools. LearningStation has been honored as a 2005 and 2006 SIIA Codie Award finalist, a 2003 Media & Methods Magazine Awards Portfolio recipient and a recipient of the EdNET 2002 Pioneer Award for significant contributions to the growth of education technology.
About ePALS Classroom Exchange
Founded in 1996, ePALS (http://www.epals.com) is the recognized leader in safe K-12 email and collaborative classroom solutions connecting 4 million students and educators in 191 countries. ePALS SchoolMail is an ASP-based safe email solution with educator monitoring, wide-ranging administrative controls and multilingual features promoting controlled online communications. ePALS is the first company worldwide to provide email with built-in instant language translation (64 pairs) and now licensing SchoolMail™, a safe, affordable and customizable email solution to schools and school districts. The ePALS site also offers cross-cultural exchanges enabling classrooms to learn about other countries and cultures or to establish teacher-moderated international classroom friendships. The site provides, safe moderated discussion boards, secure chat rooms, lesson plans and other interactive educational content and resources. For more information, visit ePALS Classroom Exchange at www.epals.com.