3.7 Communication & Collaboration
Candidates utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. (PSC 3.7/ISTE 3g)
Artifact 1: International Baccalaureate Magnet Program Stakeholders e-Newsletter
Artifact 2: Mr. Brown's Class Webpage
Reflection:
Communication with stakeholders is an important aspect of teaching and running school programs. I utilize several technology tools in order to communicate with my students, their parents, and other stakeholders.
As the International Baccalaureate Program Coordinator, I implemented a parent newsletter to send out monthly to parents and students. When I entered the role, many parents communicated with me that they often wish they knew more about deadlines the students had and, in general, what was going on in the program. I wanted to create an eNewsletter to communicate effectively with all stakeholders. I used a Google form to create a sign-up for the eNewsletter. Links and QR codes were posted in all IB classrooms during open house and on course syllabi. After some researching, I chose to use MailChimp to send out the mass emails to the list of those registered.
I used my class webpage to post notes and additional resources for my students to use for my classes. The most common tool I use is Remind to communicate announcements, reminders, and answer keys to my students. With the additional of the chat feature, students could text me questions they had concerning my class or assignments.
These artifacts demonstrate my use of technology to communicate and collaborate with stakeholders, parents, and my students. Through these resources parents and stakeholders were able to stay current on happenings in our IB program and my classroom. Additionally, through these resources, students could communicate with me and collaborate with their peers using technology.
Many of the skills I learned revolved around technical skills – creating webpages, using mail merge and Excel to make files that could properly be imported into MailChimp, and overall design so that the newsletters and webpages were easy to read. I do wish for the newsletter we had reach a larger audience and had more contributors other than myself, perhaps even having students contribute articles or pieces for the newsletter.
As the coordinator and an IB teacher, I utilized digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. After the first few months, I received much positive feedback about the newsletter – and we saw an increase in participation in our IB parent council. Additionally, for the rising ninth grade class, we saw an 12% increase in applications to join the magnet program.
Communication with stakeholders is an important aspect of teaching and running school programs. I utilize several technology tools in order to communicate with my students, their parents, and other stakeholders.
As the International Baccalaureate Program Coordinator, I implemented a parent newsletter to send out monthly to parents and students. When I entered the role, many parents communicated with me that they often wish they knew more about deadlines the students had and, in general, what was going on in the program. I wanted to create an eNewsletter to communicate effectively with all stakeholders. I used a Google form to create a sign-up for the eNewsletter. Links and QR codes were posted in all IB classrooms during open house and on course syllabi. After some researching, I chose to use MailChimp to send out the mass emails to the list of those registered.
I used my class webpage to post notes and additional resources for my students to use for my classes. The most common tool I use is Remind to communicate announcements, reminders, and answer keys to my students. With the additional of the chat feature, students could text me questions they had concerning my class or assignments.
These artifacts demonstrate my use of technology to communicate and collaborate with stakeholders, parents, and my students. Through these resources parents and stakeholders were able to stay current on happenings in our IB program and my classroom. Additionally, through these resources, students could communicate with me and collaborate with their peers using technology.
Many of the skills I learned revolved around technical skills – creating webpages, using mail merge and Excel to make files that could properly be imported into MailChimp, and overall design so that the newsletters and webpages were easy to read. I do wish for the newsletter we had reach a larger audience and had more contributors other than myself, perhaps even having students contribute articles or pieces for the newsletter.
As the coordinator and an IB teacher, I utilized digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. After the first few months, I received much positive feedback about the newsletter – and we saw an increase in participation in our IB parent council. Additionally, for the rising ninth grade class, we saw an 12% increase in applications to join the magnet program.