January 20, 2004

By: Ross Mak
Website: http://www.1st-in-toys.com

ePALS Classroom Exchange Partners with SmarterKids.com to Provide Teachers, Students and Parents With Educational Products

ePALS Classroom Exchange, LLC the world's largest online collaborative classroom network today announced its affiliation with SmarterKids.com, the leading online educational toystore. SmarterKids.com is the exclusive provider of quality educational books, software, games, hands-on-activities, and services for ePALS network of more than 1.5 million students and teachers in 108 countries. SmarterKids.com products are available through ePALS online store, Shop@ePALS. Over 21,000 classrooms worldwide use ePALS to collaborate with their peers on projects, learn about other countries and cultures and form lasting friendships.

Partnering with SmarterKids.com was a strategic decision to provide parents, teachers and students with the information, advice and tools they need to find the best educational products and services. SmarterKids.com uses a sophisticated, patent-pending product evaluation and recommendation process, SmartPicks to link assessment and learning and all products are extensively evaluated by the Company's team of teachers for the skill area and learning style addressed, as well as the educational approach and play value of each item.

ePALS in turn, will provide SmarterKids.com customers access to the world's largest collaborative classroom community, educational content resources and interactive communication tools.

Our affiliation with SmarterKids.com enhances ePALS current educational tools and resource arsenal by offering teachers, students and their parents access to a range of information and quality educational products that complement student learning, said Tim DiScipio, CEO and Co-Founder of ePALS.

ePALS is recognized as the world's largest and most invaluable online resource linking students and teachers from different nations on joint projects pertaining to curriculum, said David Blohm, president and CEO of SmarterKids.com. This unique relationship allows us to combine ePALS extensive educational content and teacher relationships with SmarterKids.com's superb selection of educational books, software, toys and games.

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