Tech Research Article 2: SchoolMail

SchoolMail is an application from ePals that connects students from the US to almost every continent in the world, allowing them to be pen pals and communicate with each other. This provides for exchanging cultural experiences with one another and gives students an edge in cultural understanding. SchoolMail is a free school-safe email for students in grades K-12 where they can talk and collaborate with students worldwide in a protective and safe way. This program features monitored mail, instant language translation for eight different languages, virus checking, anti-spam filter, spell-checker and manuals and tutorials. It blocks all teasing and threats, racial attacks, hate messages, sexual harassment, vulgar speech and outside predators and it is free. All you need is a computer with an internet connection. Wouldn’t it be so great to have your students email another student from a country they may be learning about and ask them questions. They will learn and remember a lot more when it is coming from another student around their age. It is so great. From the moment students can type and spell until they graduate from high school, SchoolMail operates the same way. Teachers can monitor all incoming and outgoing messages and block or regulate attachments. It is just such a great way for students to learn about a different culture and get excited about learning about it. I would love to use this. I know this is not a new technology but it is a current technology and I didn’t know anything about it. It was very interesting to learn about