How to Use Remind to Send Text Messages from Your Computer
Remind is a service for sending text messages to your students without having to reveal your real phone number. I’ve been recommending and using it for years. One of my favorite aspects of Remind is that I can schedule and send messages from my computer and respond to messages from my computer. In the following […]
One Code to Share It All at Open House Night
September is a popular month for schools to have open house nights or back-to-school nights for parents. Those are great opportunities for parents to see how the first weeks of school are going and what’s happening in your classroom and school. At open house night parents often end up with collection of papers that they […]
Turn Blog Posts and Newsletters Into Videos With Lumen5
For the last few weeks I’ve been posting on Twitter and on Facebook videos based on blog posts that I have written. To do that I have been using a service called Lumen5. Lumen5 is a service that will produce a video for you based upon your written work. To create a video with Lumen5 […]
More Good News for Remind Users – And a Bit of Bad News
Last night I shared the great news that Verizon has reversed their policy on the fee that they were going to start charging Remind to deliver free text messages. That means that the 7 million Remind users who were due to stop receiving texts via Remind will not experience any service disruptions. This morning in […]
Huge News! No Service Disruptions for Remind Users on Verizon Mobile Plans
Eleven days ago Remind announced that they would be discontinuing delivery of text messages to students and parents who were on Verizon wireless plans. That change was due to a change in the way that Verizon was classifying Remind messages and a huge increase in the fee that Verizon was going to charge Remind to […]
Despite Earlier Reports, Verizon Hasn’t Reversed All Fees to Remind
Yesterday EdSurge ran a story about Verizon promising to reverse course on the fees it is going to charge Remind to deliver text messages. The Twitterverse rejoiced in their victory over the corporate giant! It seems that the rejoicing might have been a bit premature. Last night Remind’s CEO published a blog post stating that […]
10 Blog Post Ideas for Your School Blog
“I don’t know what to write about” is one of reasons that many people cite for not regularly updating their school or classroom blogs. One of the ways that teachers and principals can avoid running out of blog post topics is to think about the questions that parents frequently ask during parent-teacher conferences or during […]
Promoting School Events Through Social Media
My personal Facebook and Instagram feeds are starting to be filled up with pictures from holiday concerts that my friends’ kids are performing in. Seeing those pictures reminded me of a blog post that I wrote a couple of years ago in which I outlined strategies for promoting and sharing school events through social media. […]
5 Blog Posts Your Students’ Parents Will Appreciate
Posting useful, practical tips is one of the best ways to get your students’ parents to frequently read your classroom blog. Coming up with those tips to write as blog posts can be challenging at times. Therefore, I’m offering you these five blog post topics that parents will appreciate. Consider turning any or all of […]
Remind Introduces a New Way to Coordinate Activities
Remind is one of my favorite tools for keeping parents informed about what’s happening in your school. Last week Remind released a new feature that could help you organize and keep track of registrations for school events like field trips. The new feature is called activities. Remind’s new activities feature enables you to create activity […]