We are excited to announce a new feature here at EnglishSpark called Kala.  Kala is our new points system.  You can earn Kala in a variety of different ways by posting an article, commenting on an article, posting a review, creating a listing, or by reading the latest article.  In the future, you will be able to redeem Kala for special features, raffles or drawings.

We created this system to encourage greater participation at our website.  We know we have a lot of users that can contribute a lot of great stuff to the site.  If you'd like to add to a Teacher Stumpers article or a Finding Students 101 article, please feel free to add and help each other out.  You can also add worksheets or websites to the material directory.  We'd like to build a community that can benefit everyone.

We will giving out prizes and awards to top earners.  So don't get left out.  Be sure to contribute and help our community grow.

Here's a complete list of the rules:

1) Registering on EnglishSpark.com - 10 points to any new user for signing up on our website.

2) Logging in (1/day) - 1 point

3) Inviting users to join EnglishSpark - 30 points for every person you invite, and 100 points for every person you invite that signs up.  We hope that you enjoy our blog and other free resources and hope you will invite others to join us.  We would like to reward you for that.  To invite people to 1) Login in 2) Click on My EnglishSpark 3) Click on invite.  You can import emails from yahoo, gmail, American Online, Plaxo, or Outlook.

4) Referral points - you receive 1% of all points earned by the person you invited, so the more people you invite that sign up, the more points you earn.

5) Reading an article (while logged in) - 2 points

6) Post a comment - 10 points for every accepted comment. Be sure to login in so you can get your points.

7) Submitting a listing (private teacher, worksheet, lesson plan, or website) - 50 points for every accepted listing. For a private teacher listing, while logged in click 'create a listing' under the teachers tab.  For worksheets and lesson plans please click 'a material' under the teachers tab.  For websites please click 'a link' under the teachers tab.

8) Review an item - 20 points for every review submitted about a worksheet, lesson plan, private teacher, or website.  You can sort through and find hundreds of resources in our material directory.

We will also be rewarding points for any great ideas you might have about what to do for the site.  We really want to create a website for teachers by teachers.  Help us make that happen.

Neal and Jason

And now for some legalese: