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Remind 101 - Safely Text Parents and Students
I want to share this service with you all that I just read about. It is called Remind 101. This is a service that allows you to text reminders and messages to your students and their parents. The best thing about it is that it is safe and secure. No numbers for you or students and parents are ever identified. Another great feature for this service is that you can schedule messages ahead of time to go out for reminders. The selling point is that we all know how anxious we are to check our texts as soon as we receive them, but not nearly in as much of a hurry to check our email. So this little text reminder might be the perfect thing to send out the night before a test or a major assignment is due.
It sounds like a pretty cool option to use and the best part is keeping your number private. I suppose that those of you that are coaches could also set up an account for your teams. Do any of you currently use this service or one similar to it?
This is GREAT! Thank you for sharing the classroom resource. Students (and parents!) are constantly on their phones. While email is great, and I use it all the time, phones are much easier to use and communicate with. A teacher's fear of using his or her personal cell phone number exists for both the teacher and student. This really helps to alleviate that!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! Unfortunately, I'm not able to use this service in my case, but I will definitely share this with my colleagues. Thanks for sharing! :)
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