Our county has an in-service in August for which I have organized ten groups to do presentations. If you come to this site in August I will be putting all of those in-services and their "handouts" on this blog. One of the sites we will discuss is Remind101 which has been one of my favorites for years. I use it to communicate with students and parents about what they should be doing at home. This year I have also used it on days when I cannot be in class. So recently I was grading AP exams and I pre-set a message to my class so they would know their assignment. Since you can use Tinyurl to shorten the link address and then you can send it to your students in class when you are not there.
- 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...
- 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...
- Another Digital Essential For Your Teacher Backpack
If you search this site for Remind101 you will see that I am fairly obsessed with it as kids today do not use e-mail so this is the way to reach them. You can create a section for each class and for as many classes as you have you will get...
- Tiny Url
From time to time I need to shorten my url. For example if I am sending out a message using Remind101 to my students, then my Google Docs url is too short so I get a truncated one. For example, here is the entire url for a webquest my...
- Texting Students
Last year one of my fellow teachers starting Tweeting students their homework. Not surprisingly almost everyone of her pupils signed up. I've also written about how to set up an e-mail to your students' phones. But here is a...