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I use Remind with my students and I love it.
Remind creates a whole new communication stream with my students that transcends the 90 minutes we have face-to-face with each other every other day. When I send them a text message I know that they received it on their phone instantly.
I use it sparingly, however. I want my students to be responsible to check our class Assignment Calendar (a Google Calendar linked from our class Blackboard site) on their own initiative. For that reason I use Remind only to announce that I've posted a new assignment, or have made changes to previously-posted assignment deadlines.
The consequence of my policy is completely foreseeable: Students forget (or neglect) to check the Calendar, and consequently forget that they have a project due at the end of the week or a quiz tomorrow.
The ideal solution would be to push to the students the obligation of monitoring their due dates using a more efficient and effective platform. The WhatsDue app just might be that ideal solution.
WhatsDue is a free app for students (and their parents). WhatsDue lets teachers create a to-do list of upcoming due dates that students can access from their devices.
Teachers register with WhatsDue and share a join-code for each class with their students and parents. From the teacher dashboard, they then record each assignment and when it is due.
Registered users then get push notifications of upcoming due dates that are added to a clear display on their devices. This picture shows an example of how that looks:
In this example, the student has six assignments due. One (the Homework to "Do Assignment 3") is marked in red because it is due tomorrow. The other assignments are listed in the order in which they are due.
I'll keep using Remind to alert my students to schedule changes. But WhatsApp seems to go further in helping my students manage their assignments than simply using Remind alone, so I'm going to roll this out on the first day back from winter break. Even better: Could you imagine how cool it would be if all teachers throughout your building used WhatsDue? I'll work on promoting that as well.
- Embedding Remind Texts In Blackboard
So in my school district a lot of people like using the "Announcement" tab in Blackboard. The problem with that is if you change it to just a text (which is possible) then all teachers have to be limited to a text. So, of course, many people who...
- Remind Your Students Using Texts
Today I found an article on the Washington Post that goes with along with what some of my students are doing for homework. So, today I sent them the link to the article and was able to do it because all of my students voluntarily sign up for Remind.com because...
- Remind Now Allows You To Record Homework Reminders
This is a pretty cool addition for those of you who have Remind on your smartphone (iTunes, Android). You can, as the video shows, record your student assignments for your kids to hear rather than read. You can also attach assignments if...
- Remind To Text Your Students
I have been using Remind (used to be called Remind101) for the past three years (in fact their CEO even wrote a nice blurb for my book which is coming out in a few months). Students today do not use email very often, but cannot text enough to save...
- Remind Your Students To Do Homework During Summer School
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World History
A free app that nicely complements Remind.com
I use Remind with my students and I love it.
Remind creates a whole new communication stream with my students that transcends the 90 minutes we have face-to-face with each other every other day. When I send them a text message I know that they received it on their phone instantly.
I use it sparingly, however. I want my students to be responsible to check our class Assignment Calendar (a Google Calendar linked from our class Blackboard site) on their own initiative. For that reason I use Remind only to announce that I've posted a new assignment, or have made changes to previously-posted assignment deadlines.
The consequence of my policy is completely foreseeable: Students forget (or neglect) to check the Calendar, and consequently forget that they have a project due at the end of the week or a quiz tomorrow.
The ideal solution would be to push to the students the obligation of monitoring their due dates using a more efficient and effective platform. The WhatsDue app just might be that ideal solution.
WhatsDue is a free app for students (and their parents). WhatsDue lets teachers create a to-do list of upcoming due dates that students can access from their devices.
Teachers register with WhatsDue and share a join-code for each class with their students and parents. From the teacher dashboard, they then record each assignment and when it is due.
Registered users then get push notifications of upcoming due dates that are added to a clear display on their devices. This picture shows an example of how that looks:
I'll keep using Remind to alert my students to schedule changes. But WhatsApp seems to go further in helping my students manage their assignments than simply using Remind alone, so I'm going to roll this out on the first day back from winter break. Even better: Could you imagine how cool it would be if all teachers throughout your building used WhatsDue? I'll work on promoting that as well.
- Embedding Remind Texts In Blackboard
So in my school district a lot of people like using the "Announcement" tab in Blackboard. The problem with that is if you change it to just a text (which is possible) then all teachers have to be limited to a text. So, of course, many people who...
- Remind Your Students Using Texts
Today I found an article on the Washington Post that goes with along with what some of my students are doing for homework. So, today I sent them the link to the article and was able to do it because all of my students voluntarily sign up for Remind.com because...
- Remind Now Allows You To Record Homework Reminders
This is a pretty cool addition for those of you who have Remind on your smartphone (iTunes, Android). You can, as the video shows, record your student assignments for your kids to hear rather than read. You can also attach assignments if...
- Remind To Text Your Students
I have been using Remind (used to be called Remind101) for the past three years (in fact their CEO even wrote a nice blurb for my book which is coming out in a few months). Students today do not use email very often, but cannot text enough to save...
- Remind Your Students To Do Homework During Summer School
With summer school starting shortly I wanted to tell you about one of the reasons why my students turned in their work at a higher level than ever before. I love it when a student e-mails me and asks the next day if I received the message. My answer...