Communicate with Others from the 21st Century Classroom

21st Century classroom communication looks different than the traditional weekly newsletter and note home.  It can even be more than a frequent email to parents.  How can we as teachers embrace the power of technology to communicate with parents and other stakeholders...to provide more than just one way communication and also provide communication that is mobile and easy for others to access.  Here are some resources and tools that may help us, as teachers, be better at communicating in a 21st century style.

To learn more, read these articles:

Building Parent Engagement: Telling your School (or Classroom's) Story
An example:  Who is telling your story?     I love this! 

Parent Communication: From Print to Digital

Why Have a Class Blog?

How to Promote a Family Blogging Month

Upgrading Blogs Through the Lens of SAMR

Free and Easy Ways to Communicate with Staff and Parents
A Classroom Photo Journal ~ A Real Example 

To explore tools that can help:

Class Dojo ~ class management and parent communication tool

Remind 101 ~ send reminders to parents via text and/or email

Smore ~ online newsletters

Sign Up Genius ~ great tool to manage any classroom sign up tasks

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