Communicating with Students/Families

Are you struggling with how it would look to communicate with students/families in distance learning? Take a look at these resources and videos below. This may help give you an idea for how to get started.

Questions?

Ask Theren Hayes at hayest@tukwila.wednet.edu or 206-901-8085

Using Google Voice to Call Families.mp4

Calling students/families from your computer.

Using Google Voice, you are able to reach out to your families. It will feel odd to talk at your computer screen, but the tool works. Take a look.

Texting families from Google Voice

You can use Google Voice to text reminders and such to families too.

Set up a Families Contact Group in Contacts.Google.Com

The following video shares how to use a family contacts group in Gmail that can be used in Google Voice, Google Calendar, and Google Meet. Take look.

Need more help with the tools?

Emailing All Students From Google Classroom

Note: This only works for our High School and Middle School teachers. No email for elementary students.

Document Camera - Capturing lessons with your doc cam

Document Camera applications

Use the Google Slide deck to the left of this text box to see descriptions, images, and short video clips for how to support students with icons/shapes, color, images, and making short instructional videos.

Your document camera is a portable tool that can be checked out and used at home. Use this Google Form to inform the technology department that you HAVE your document camera with you.

LINK to Google Form Here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdul0ZMtGQhCPkgbXL7v1tFN4qcGDHwysq80D6hGtjwZfpKxg/viewform

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