ePals(R) Announces World Elections Center for Students Around the Globe

ePals Corporation (TSX VENTURE: SLN), an education media company and the world's
leading safe social learning network, today announced the launch of the ePals
World Elections Center, designed to involve students in a range of interactive
activities to help them learn about election processes, candidates and issues
globally.


Interactive and Student-Centered
The ePals World Elections Center includes projects and activities for both
whole-class and independent learning and reinforce problem-solving, critical
thinking and the cultural awareness emphasized in the new Common Core Standards.
Among the multimedia offerings available for students to explore are videos on:
the recent French presidential inauguration; the campaign trail with 2012
Venezuelan presidential candidates; and the U.S. Republican and Democratic
National Conventions. Students can also tap into a variety of safe social media
features that enable collaborative projects, discussion forums around election
topics, quizzes, polls, and other interactive communication elements.


Encouraging Student Voices 
A primary area of the World Elections Center is Students Speak where students
can share their thoughts and feelings about the elections, leaders and issues in
their countries with peers around the world. Student voices are showcased
through a variety of media including writing, artwork and videos. In this area
students can create collages illustrating the candidates' platforms, videotape a
reading of an original poem about peace, or craft a persuasive essay explaining
their personal political position. Special Challenge sections ask students to
craft election slogans, campaign rules or a video-based Presidential Minute,
where they have 60 seconds to address the leader of their country with advice,
concerns and issues of importance to their families. For examples of
Presidential Minute challenge videos created by students for past elections,
visit: http://www.epals.com/worldelections/?studentsspeak


Classroom Projects and Teacher Support
Making it easy for teachers to integrate the World Elections Center into the
curriculum is a Teachers' Corner where educators from around the world can find
partners for collaborative projects on a range of election-related topics.
Sample projects include exploring primary election issues, researching
candidates' viewpoints, and looking at the U.S. presidential campaign from a
global perspective. Students can also get a kid-to-kid viewpoint on leadership
through projects where they research and share detailed information on their
country's candidates and how their current leaders came into power. Independent
investigations can also be part of projects, with students interviewing parents
and grandparents to learn about their immigration stories and how these affect
their attitudes towards candidates and issues.


International Curricular Focus
Additional elements of the World Elections Center include Fact Pages for
countries that have had or will have Presidential elections in 2012. Fact Pages
include detailed curricular material focusing on each country's political
structure including its form of government, election processes, terms of office,
voting regulations, predictions, and result implications. Countries with
elections in 2012 include the Russian Federation, the U.S., Taiwan, Mexico,
Slovenia, Gabon, South Korea, France, Sierra Leone, Venezuela, and more.


"Every teacher understands the power of the teachable moment," says Nina Zolt,
ePals Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer. "The World Elections Center
provides a terrific opportunity for students around the globe to explore,
communicate with peers and generally become involved in 2012 elections and
issues around the world that will have a direct impact on their futures."


To learn more about the ePals World Election Center, visit
http://www.epals.com/worldelections


About ePals Corporation
ePals Corporation (TSX VENTURE: SLN) is an education media company and the
leading provider of safe social learning networks (SLN). Focused on the K-12
market, ePals offers elementary and secondary school administrators, 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' award-winning products
include: the ePals Global Learning Network; SchoolMail(R)365; LearningSpace(R);
In2Books(R), a common core eMentoring program that builds reading, writing and
critical thinking skills; and popular children's educational publishing brands
including Cricket(R) and Cobblestone(R). ePals customers and partners include
the International Baccalaureate, Microsoft Corporation, Dell Inc., IBM Corp.,
National Geographic and leading school districts across the United States and
globally. ePals serves approximately 800,000 classrooms and reaches millions of
teachers, students and parents in approximately 200 countries and territories.
Visit www.epals.com. For In2Books, visit www.In2Books.com.
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