Monday, February 16, 2009

How to communicate with students

Myspace, facebook, twitter, teacher web pages... All ways to communicate electronically with students.  There seems to be a debate over which one is best.  To be honest I stink at keeping up with my web page.  MySpace is all too much for me.  Facebook is more for my own pleasure than for my students.  And Twitter is unfamiliar to me.

Students and parents e-mail and call me often to communicate and ask questions, but even that seems so old school.  It would be more user friendly to have a place for students to go that they go to anyway- like MySpace.  But I have already eliminated that option.

I am looking for someone with advice on what they do that wouldn't take up too much time, but is beneficial to all parties.

1 comment:

Karen said...

So far, Ning.com is the best social networking option that combines the MySpace/Facebook element plus blogging, etc. I don't known if it is still blocked by the district, and there is a good chance that there are education-focused ones that I haven't discovered yet.

Otherwise, the MediaWiki the district offers may be a good option. You have to put in a help ticket to get it set up, and I've heard mixed reviews about it, but you may want to ask Jean or Diane about it.