A Couple of Useful Apps for You

The particular article review that I analyzed was “30 Useful Communication Apps for your School” by Karel Jansen. In this blog post Jansen indulges in the notion that although it shouldn’t be, communication is one of the areas that could go immensely wrong; especially within schools. Thus, this blog post is extremely informative as it touches upon communication between teachers and students, teachers and parents, and school administration with fellow teachers.

The app that I found to be most productive and useful within the classroom for communication between teachers and students was “Remind.” This particular app is a classroom-friendly tool that simply sends reminders personally or to groups, without exposing any student’s personal information. Thus, whenever an educator wishes to remind their students of any upcoming events or assignments, it simply sends them a quick reminder.

                     

[Furthermore], an app that I found to be extremely intriguing for communication between educators and parents is "ParentSquare". This particular app is ideal to communicate school happenings, or events with student’s parents; ultimately opening the lines for a constant communication basis. This app was quite interesting to analyze as it has multiple other functions such as asking parents to help with school events, sending them notifications or pictures of classroom work, letting them fill out forms for fundraisers, or pay fees for supplies and school trips. Due to this app covering multiple classroom functionalities, it essentially allows the educator to communicate with parents immediately; diminishing all paper forums or classical communication methods.

Thus, as an aspiring educator it is extremely important to familiarize ourselves with these apps simply because they bring a great use to our classrooms, while essentially opening the lines for communication.

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Feb 25 at 2:08pm

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