Interviews With People At Epals

Interviews with People at ePals, 2007-2009 1. Tim DiScipio, founder, interview at NMSA: with Intel Classmate PC computers Demo of searching for a classroom match. http://www.schooltube.com/video/14228/E-Pals-at-the-NMSA-Conference 5:19 minutes 2. Tim DiScipio interview, part 2 at NMSA: Tim interviewed about how ePals got started, how teachers use it, translation features, parental communication, some projects used. http://www.schooltube.com/video/15088/E-Pals-Tim-Discipio-Welcome-Message 5:06 minutes 3. Tim DiScipio interviewed by Kevin Honeycutt at ePals conference 2008. Tim talks about how ePals started, as a pioneer with a social learning network inside a walled garden. He talks about the ability for local control by individual teachers with ePals features. “The electronic pen and paper” need to be used at school in a safe and protected manner, he asserts, leading to powerful collaborations across the globe. http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? video_id=43178&title=ePals_Conference___Tim_DiScipio_Interview 8:24 minutes 4. Rita Oates, VP of Education Markets, provides an "ePals commercial" about SchoolMail and SchoolBlog at the CoSN conference, March 2009: http://www.schooltube.com/video/26834/ePals 1:48 minutes 5. Larry Roth at NECC, June 29, 2009: two announcements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOC0eTvpYT4 Larry Roth, executive vice president of marketing and business development for ePals, Inc. discusses ePals new partnerships with the International Baccalaureate (IB) and the Gabriel Piedrahita-Uribe Foundation announced at NECC 2009. 1:35 minutes 6. Nina Zolt, the Co-Founder and Chief Program Architect of ePals, Inc., discusses at the ePals conference 2008 the need for passion about books to engage learners. She is the Founder of in2books and shares an amazing passion for helping kids develop personal libraries. She discusses the value of building relationships around books. She also shares the possibilities of connecting kids to the larger world in authentic and meaningful ways. http://web.me.com/khoneycuttessdack/Kevin/Driving_Questions_Podcast/Entries/200 8/12/3_Passion_for_student_reading_and_so_much_more!.html 8 minutes

7. President Ed Fish, interviewed by Kevin Honeycutt at ePals conference 2008, reflects on connecting with American schools with students in Kenya and other underlying notions of authentic learning with ePals, tools for collaborative learning. http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? video_id=43177&title=ePals_Conference___Ed_Fish_Interview 8:22 minutes