Short Description: Seesaw is an educational tool that allows teachers to maintain a digital portfolio of student work, as well as deliver differentiated assignments to specific students. Additionally, the teachers can provide feedback on submitted work and students can submit their work/assignments with text or video comments (typically reflections). The tool also comes with the feature of enabling the sharing of these portfolios with parents of the students. With teacher monitoring and approval, parents can gain access to their child's work to track academic progress, view the teacher's feedback, and contribute commentary of their own to the submissions.
Examples of Uses: Teachers can use Seesaw to collect digital files throughout the school year as opposed to a pile of papers. In this sense, Seesaw is effective for both organization and communication. By sharing a student's digital portfolio with the parents, this serves as an effective way to preemptively prevent the need for parent-teacher conferences. Through Seesaw, parents are able to monitor what has been submitted and can also view what the teacher has evaluated or commented upon. In doing so, they can easily determine where their child needs improvement or support. This knowledge and method of communication can lend itself to early solutions before a deficient or underachieving academic situation develops.
Class Messenger is the only service available that enables a greater connectivity between teachers and parents, without asking for more time from either. In fact, the easy-to-use and versatile communication tools can actually reduce teacher workloads. And they keep more parents involved by requiring only the time it takes to glance at a phone or click a mouse.
This parent-teacher communication app offers the texting features of Remind.com plus classroom calendars, a meeting scheduler, volunteer tracking, and more. Parents can also communicate with one another, and can consult a mini social-media feed incorporating everything going on with the group. Upload photos, videos, or documents. Bloomz is particularly well-suited to elementary school classes. Private, secure, easy, and fun.
Viber is a free application that allows you send texts and make calls to your students and their parents and encourages students to communicate and coordinate their school work. For example, when working on group assignments, students can create their own group to decide on team roles, plan their work, and arrange any meeting times. In addition, teachers can create a class or parent group to send out notices, remind students about deadlines, and share information.
Student, Teacher and Parent AAASpell.com Accounts are Free, Safe and Easy to create. Accounts allow you to change or correct lists, remember lists and record practice results. Teachers and parents can create accounts and lists for their students and see practice results.
Edmodo is a safe, easy, and helpful space for educators to connect and collaborate with students, parents, colleagues and vice versa. Edmodo allows students to access assignments, quizzes, and collaborate with peers in a safe space regulated by the teacher. Parents are able to stay involved and communicate with the teacher.
Edmodo is a great tool for online class discussions, where even the shyest of students are active participants. Plus, there is a record of the discussion that the class can refer back to later.
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