Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
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Social Networking Workshop for Parents
Feb 11th
Last week the Ed Tech team here at my school held a 3 hour social networking workshop for parents. The workshop was requested by parents after we made a brief presentation to the school board back in November.
Before we began we took a quick poll of the 20 parents (all mothers):
- Non had a Facebook account but a couple of them had heard about it.
- Non had been on YouTube but they all had heard about it.
- What did they want to know: How to see what their kids were doing on the computer without them knowing about it.
In the 3 hours we covered the More >
Parent Communication: From Print to Digital
Sep 3rd
Over the last couple of years I have helped numerous teachers set up blogs, wikis, and just plain old html pages to be used to communicate with parents.
As some point teachers always ask:
“So, I can just copy and paste my newsletter right here?”
You can, but you shouldn’t
Newsletters do not transfer well to the web. Well, as in the amount of information people expect and will pay attention to in digital form.
For example: Most parent newsletters are two pages long (or front and back). Parents will read a two page newsletter that comes home in the Friday folder, but they won’t More >
