App of the Week for December 3rd: Remind101
Price: Free
Personal communication in the last few years has drastically transformed - from phone calls, to email, to texting. The question has become: "How can we leverage this transition for the benefit of our classrooms?"
This week's App of the Week, Remind101, revolutionizes school/home communication. It gives teachers a unique phone number that can be distributed to students and parents. Students and parents send a text containing a unique phrase of the teacher's choice to Remind101, which will then text back a confirmation as it simultaneously adds student/parent contact information to its database. One of the advantages to this method of communication is that the teacher never sees student or parent phone numbers, neither is the teacher's phone number displayed. You can use this to send out daily agendas or class notices to students and parents. Remind101 allows the teacher to easily schedule notices days or weeks ahead of time.
Remind101 is an app every teacher should have in their teacher toolbox.
Personal communication in the last few years has drastically transformed - from phone calls, to email, to texting. The question has become: "How can we leverage this transition for the benefit of our classrooms?"
This week's App of the Week, Remind101, revolutionizes school/home communication. It gives teachers a unique phone number that can be distributed to students and parents. Students and parents send a text containing a unique phrase of the teacher's choice to Remind101, which will then text back a confirmation as it simultaneously adds student/parent contact information to its database. One of the advantages to this method of communication is that the teacher never sees student or parent phone numbers, neither is the teacher's phone number displayed. You can use this to send out daily agendas or class notices to students and parents. Remind101 allows the teacher to easily schedule notices days or weeks ahead of time.
Remind101 is an app every teacher should have in their teacher toolbox.
