Connecting to Students and Parents
Special education is always a joint effort between teachers, students, parents and related service providers. This week, I decided to take a first look at Remind, a tool designed for educators to contact parents and students securely on their phones. Many of my colleagues have mentioned its utility and ease of use, but I had not had the opportunity to use it myself. The narrated screencast I created and attached will walk you through the first steps of exploring the tool along with me.
So Will I Use It?
After speaking with two colleagues in preparation for this little app exploration and then "noodling around" with it myself, I am impressed. I already use Google Classroom quite a bit to provide students with links and resources, and while parents can be invited there it doesn't really connect with them like a text message, which is what Remind really seems to do. In short, I definitely see myself using this tool moving forward.
Thank you for the well organized, informative video. I really think that Remind could prove to be a valuable communication tool. it seems like it was designed with teachers in mind. I know that should be obvious, but we have all experienced apps for education that DON"T seem to be designed by/ for teachers. I wonder if CPS would allow us to use this. I think that the translation mode is really cool. i think that being able to send things to sub-groups also has the potential of being very powerful. Thank you for sharing. - Darren
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