Everybody gets the same picture of a student’s current workload of assignments and activities. Google CalendarĬhrist the King School (CKS), in Burlington, Vermont, uses Google Calendar to be transparent with families as to what’s due when with their students. Other items in the magazine include Google+ Photo albums.įlipboard also allows for comments and likes to be added on items, enabling families to enter the dialog with questions or support for particular artifacts of learning. In it, parents can see, at left, a teacher’s blog post about science class, a more general housekeeping announcement (top right) and catch the daily school announcements, which are flipped in from YouTube. The tech specialist at Hixon Middle School, in Webster Groves, Missouri, curates the Flipboard shown below for their school. Flipboard allows comments to be added to each item that’s flipped, so additional context can be added to each item as it enters the digital collection. each student and family collaborates on a magazine shared with the educator that focuses on a topic of high relevance to the student’s learning objectives.having team members flip their blog posts into a magazine - or better yet, have a student or family member serve as “Historian” for the team, ensuring that valuable online artifacts get stored and saved.But these magazines can be a powerful tool for communicating with families. Flipboardįlipboard, which we introduced here, allows users to curate links into mobile device-based magazines: slick n’ glossy collections of related visual artifacts. Shelburne Community School in Shelburne, Vermont, uses the Symbaloo shown above. Their nascent (and growing!) parent portal contains links to teacher blogs, the school website, the sports schedule - everything a parent could want in one place. What if you used Symbaloo to collect all the links parents and families might need to stay informed on a regular basis? Links to items like progress reports, blogs, electronic newsletters and student work itself? Symbaloo lets you collect a bunch of links and display them on one page in a grid, forming a portal to your favorite places. Technology, can make keeping families informed about 1:1 and effective transformation much simpler to implement and maintain.
How can technology help make communicating with your students’ families easier? These 4 edtech tools for family communication offer different ways to open the door to your classroom and welcome families inside.
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