Parents have the last word in their kids education and only through their participation will the students feel more motivated and positive about their school work.
Sometimes the business of life or the social/economic issues make parents work extended hours outside the home. This factor causes less parental involment with kids in school. By creating some type of easy commication between parents and techers everybody will benefit.
The parents can be informed about their kids learning targets, activities, and responsibilites without having to spend a lot of time. The teachers can be informed about the student's family environment and this type of communication will encourage students to learn and keep up with the expectations of both their parents and teachers.
Teachers can communicate with parents through email, phone, mail newsletters, or by school websites. There is new communication software like Letter Pop, Wikis, or Scrapblogs that are fun to use.
For this assignment I choose the Letter Pop software because I wanted to become familiar with the program and I also liked the colorful templates that makes it less intimidating for parents to read. It was very easy to use, but I did discover that it wasn't the tool that I need it for the type of newsletter I had in mind. See my newsletter link below to check it out.
http://letterpop.com/people/KirstensParentNewsletter/
This time I wanted to discover what Letter Pop was about. Next time I would used different software that will allow me to insert and communicate more information. I would use a Wiki because it is a better tool when you want to send infomation about many things that are happening during a unit. I like the idea of having a side bar where readers can easily distinguish between more than one category. To me it is easier to separate a newletter by categories than writing one long letter. I learn that Letter Pop is good if you have one thing to communicate in a limited space.
Sometimes the business of life or the social/economic issues make parents work extended hours outside the home. This factor causes less parental involment with kids in school. By creating some type of easy commication between parents and techers everybody will benefit.
The parents can be informed about their kids learning targets, activities, and responsibilites without having to spend a lot of time. The teachers can be informed about the student's family environment and this type of communication will encourage students to learn and keep up with the expectations of both their parents and teachers.
Teachers can communicate with parents through email, phone, mail newsletters, or by school websites. There is new communication software like Letter Pop, Wikis, or Scrapblogs that are fun to use.
For this assignment I choose the Letter Pop software because I wanted to become familiar with the program and I also liked the colorful templates that makes it less intimidating for parents to read. It was very easy to use, but I did discover that it wasn't the tool that I need it for the type of newsletter I had in mind. See my newsletter link below to check it out.
http://letterpop.com/people/KirstensParentNewsletter/
This time I wanted to discover what Letter Pop was about. Next time I would used different software that will allow me to insert and communicate more information. I would use a Wiki because it is a better tool when you want to send infomation about many things that are happening during a unit. I like the idea of having a side bar where readers can easily distinguish between more than one category. To me it is easier to separate a newletter by categories than writing one long letter. I learn that Letter Pop is good if you have one thing to communicate in a limited space.
1 comment:
It was comforting to see that I was not the only person who felt that way about the letterpop--everyone was raving about it, but I thought while it was really easy to use, it was too restrictive. I was so frustrated when I found out I couldn't move things around--I can sort of tell from your entry you felt the same way.
On the other hand, I LOVE your blog--you did such an awesome job with color and videos--I am inspired to add to my own now!
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