Secured Email Learning for New York Public Schools

With the advance of our daily technology, emails have been used as a primary communication for business, and personal purposes. An email is a method of exchanging digital messages across the internet and other computer networks. Email has outwitted the traditional communication methods such as; post-mail, telephone and fax due to its reliability. With the advent of electronic mail (e-mail), education institutions have embraced such technology as an aid for their educational programs

Recently, ePals Inc announced to provide reliable email solutions to New York public schools. ePals –a leader in K-12 education, won the bid of the New York City Department of Education permitting them to provide its SchoolMail® product to New York City for five years beginning in the school year 2010-2011.

The email service will be made available to approximately 2 million students and parents. This will enable online communities for teachers, parents and students alike and a mutual access to ePals Global Community™ allowing them to open portals to diverse schools worldwide. The program will provide security and privacy for children at the same time parents can monitor their children’s performance with the schools newsletter made possible by ePals. The program will also run through and integrate technology from Microsoft Live@edu facilitating a software, hardware, and server free deployment.

With the joint effort, students will benefit with the free access of education resources connection with students online allowing them collaboration regarding their studies. The program will also provide student link to National Geographic and expert mentors permitted by their teachers. Public Schools can provide secured and legally complied electronic communication services to their students and other stakeholders.

Principals are aided in posting upcoming events to parents through newsletters. Online journaling and writing projects will have a wide range of resources with the ePal Global Community which bonds 600, 000 educators around the globe. The SchoolMail also features an instant translation with 58 languages enabling project sharing, cross-cultural exchanges, and language learning practice.