World History
If you follow this blog, you know I use Remind101 every day of the week to remind my students about their homework. Simply put it is has greatly improved my students ability to complete homework, but also to communicate with them, especially this year when I had to put up with eleven snow days and ten delayed openings.
Above is a video giving you the highlights and below is one teaching you how to use it. The latest addition to the service is that you can now text an attachment. Of course you can use Tinyurl or Bit.ly to shrink a link to a Google Drive document which is what I often do.
- Snow Day Reprise
In ten years of being a chair, tomorrow will be the second day I have missed a county wide meeting (so I can work with my AP Comp kids to better prepare for the AP exam). I was going to present on how to teach students on a snow day. But...
- 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 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...
- School On A Snow Day
I will admit that I can't get away with this with all of my classes, but my AP Comparative (which is AP US Government and AP Comparative in one year) is a motivated bunch. So while today is our second snow day (actually a "cold day" since it is 5...
- Three Ways To Shorten Your Urls
There are a bunch of ways to shorten a long url which you will want to consider using. If you use Google Drive, you have some very long urls that you may want to send to your students using something like Remind101 (for homework) or if you want...
World History
Remind101 Adds Attachments
If you follow this blog, you know I use Remind101 every day of the week to remind my students about their homework. Simply put it is has greatly improved my students ability to complete homework, but also to communicate with them, especially this year when I had to put up with eleven snow days and ten delayed openings.
Above is a video giving you the highlights and below is one teaching you how to use it. The latest addition to the service is that you can now text an attachment. Of course you can use Tinyurl or Bit.ly to shrink a link to a Google Drive document which is what I often do.
- Snow Day Reprise
In ten years of being a chair, tomorrow will be the second day I have missed a county wide meeting (so I can work with my AP Comp kids to better prepare for the AP exam). I was going to present on how to teach students on a snow day. But...
- 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 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...
- School On A Snow Day
I will admit that I can't get away with this with all of my classes, but my AP Comparative (which is AP US Government and AP Comparative in one year) is a motivated bunch. So while today is our second snow day (actually a "cold day" since it is 5...
- Three Ways To Shorten Your Urls
There are a bunch of ways to shorten a long url which you will want to consider using. If you use Google Drive, you have some very long urls that you may want to send to your students using something like Remind101 (for homework) or if you want...