The merger of ePals with In2Books that was announced today should be of interest to educators seeking ways to integrate reading and technology in the classroom. ePals, an early entrant into student safe email and blogging that I’ve worked with at Scholastic and as a business development consultant, had been penetrating the US school market slowly and this may help them pick up the pace. In2Books CEO Ed Fish commented, “Our product strategy is focused on the use of the Internet as a safe learning environment to enable new forms of learning experiences in and out of the classroom. ePALS brings powerful collaboration and social networking tools to millions of connected teachers and students around the world. Once we complete product integration, we will be able to introduce In2Books’ full line of products and services to the schools and families in the ePALS community and create a unique online learning community engaged in ambitious, research proven literacy-based subject matter curricula.” Story continues here…