For the 2013-14 school year, I will continue my tradition of utilizing the remarkably advances Remind 101 texting service. The service is free and an invaluable way to communicate between student, parents, and teachers.
As a way to further incorporate technology into my classroom, I've created a schoology.com website. On this site, the students can not only work on their in-class/homework assignments but take tests and hand-in written papers hopefully saving a few trees along the way. Here are unique access codes for each class:
Student sign-up: LINK HERE
Parent sign-up: LINK HERE
Edublogs is an educational community build on WordPress-powered blogs. For the 2013-14 school year, I will use this site to blog, and embed video, podcasts. The link is below:
Class Dojo is an interactive classroom environment website geared toward allowing parents and teachers to track a student's classroom behavior in real time. For use during the 2013-14 school year. Here's the link:
Another website devoted to building a collaborative website with interactive group forums, currently this site is under construction. Coming during the 2013-14 school year!