Online communication with parents

Today we were discussing how to engage reluctant parents or provide digital communication to parents. The use of text message reminders and other forms of communication were discussed.

Fresh Grade might be what you are looking for.  This is an app and a website where you can capture, document and communicate with parents.

The app allows you to take a photo or video, add a comment and instantaneously push it out to the parents app (Parents who don't have smart phones can log on through the web).

This is an example of what the parents would see.

Let me know if this is something you may be interested in looking at further.

Week 1 Term 2 lessons

Welcome back to term 2 everyone,

Todays lessons were great.
Debs class are creating a slideshow of letters in "30 hands". Students are drawing the letters and recording their voice on each slide. Students are building up to be able to do this independently and the aim is to create enough slides to cover the whole alphabet.

Deb -  the App we discussed was "Chatterkids", this is a free app that allows you to add a mouth to an image. The mouth moves when the student adds their own voice to it.

Hayley's class were learning about ANZAC day, students were introduced to "Book Creator" and drew pictures depicting part of the ANZAC story. The next step was to add audio to the page and describe any information they knew about ANZAC day. 

Alison's class also used "Book Creator" today. Students took a photo of a picture they had drawn recounting their holidays and cropped the picture to exclude the writing.  Students then added a typed heading and narrated their recount. 

Sarah's class used "Pic Collage" to explore synonyms relating to emotion. Students took photos of themselves showing a specific emotion and added text. 

These were transferred into dropbox so that they can be printed and displayed around the classroom  as a writing prompt.