Other Tools

Remind allows you to text families directly without sharing your personal phone number. I use it regularly for a variety of uses. I have used it for reminders about:

• Field Trips

• Special Events

• Homework

• Dinner table conversation

• Questions to specific families

• And more!

• Remind Overview

• Parent Letter

Seesaw is an app (or website) that makes creating student driven digital portfolios super easy to create and utilize. My students and I use it daily. All posts are shared with parents in real time. We have used it for collecting and sharing:

• Classroom pictures

• Videos of science activities

• Audio of student explanations

• Labeled science diagrams

• And more!

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Apple Classroom is a basic app that is a must have for any 1-1 iPad classrooms. With this app, you can use your teacher iPad or Mac to manage students while they are working on iPads.

The app allows you to:

• View students' screens

• Navigate (and lock) students to a particular website or app.

• Push a student's screen to Airplay.

• Lock student screens.

• Check out this tutorial video!

Google Classroom is the blended learning tool that can serve as your "virtual" classroom space. Classroom has several of the same features as Edmodo, Schoology, and other LMSs (Learning Management Systems).

Features include the ability to:

• Email students

• Post materials

• Make announcements

• Share resources

• Create assignments

• Collect assignments

• Give feedback

Google Forms are for creating surveys/forms and collecting/organizing the results.

We have used it for:

• Parent/Student surveys

• Tests and quizzes

• Student SPED point sheets

• Student "check-ins"

• Book logging

Google Sheets are for creating spreadsheets. Sheets can be populated by using a Google Form, or you can input your own information.

Some school uses include:

• Creating schedules

• Creating sign up sheets

• Storing lists

• Sharing form data

• And more!