Lesley Johnson's List: Apps for Education

• new classroom messaging app that goes beyond your typical mobile classroom app.
• stay instantly connected to what their children are doing and learning in the classroom. It works the other way too as teachers can hear from parents about potential problems, absences, concerns, questions, etc. After all, the more communication between all the parties involved, the better!

• ets you:

   
   
  • Create surveys for parents like end-of-year polls, solicit feedback about field trips, etc.
   
  • Build a donation or volunteer form for parents and students to take instantly. You can even set a due date!
   
  • Schedule meetings with students, parents, administrators, and anyone else in your private community. The ‘Meet With Me’ feature is great, in my opinion.
   
  • Send email and push notifications to parents and students about what should be done outside the classroom / after school.
   
   

  As you can see, the app is quite robust and quite free.
• Parent’s are always starving for more information about their child’s education and development.
• Teachers need parents to be informed, enthusiastic supporters of their
   students in order to be successful.
• It recognizes that smartphone penetration is finally high enough that teachers around the world should only have to press three or four buttons on screen to send an SMS, email or push notification to a few or all of the parents for their class. WDWDT? will save teachers an incredible amount of time and make keeping parents in sync a pleasurable activity. Parents will instantly know more about their child’s education and be able to provide targeted support knowing exactly what they need to do.
• he needs three volunteers in the class tomorrow
• Mom gets home from work and sees the Homework icon from WDWDT? lit up on her screen…she doesn’t even need to ask.

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