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We will be receiving a group of email accounts from EPals for the coming school year.  We will have enough for any classroom / student that wants an account.  Many of you are familiar with Epals as being a very safe source for email accounts in schools.  Their SchoolMail product that we are getting is safety focused and easily managed.  There will be no advertisements or commercials.  I am hoping to put a Willard school extension on the name – something like bob@willardr2.net but we are still working on logistics.  I am hoping we will be able to upload names from our sis database, but that has yet to be worked out.  On the management side, there are many teacher controls.  it can be set to have the teacher approve all outgoing mail, or can be completely open for the older students.  You can restrict who students can email and it includes customizable homepages, discussion boards, and file sharing.  I believe this will be a valuable tool to teach students about email.  Students are using email already at a very young age.  We need to jump on board and supply them with a safe alternative to yahoo and hotmail accounts.  For more information, go to http://schoolmail.epals.com