Title: How to communicate with students through technology
Headings: How to communicate with students through technology
How to communicate with students through technology
Go Paperless
Voice & Video
Interactive Tech
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Michael Hoon

Content: Google Docs can also be a great way to communicate to students engaged in group work and allow easy communication among multiple users. Going paperless can be more easily facilitated when your school uses LMS (Learning Management Systems) like Canvas or D2L, but there are a number of Google products like Google Sites that can allow teachers seeking out a user-friendly platform to provide online syllabi, updates, and assignments that students can access quickly. Voice & Video
We so often gear the classroom towards reaching auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners to reinforce the multiple ways students receive messages, but some teachers rarely mix it up in their feedback—which is often written. Providing feedback on documents using voice annotations features that exist in programs like Microsoft Word or creating voiceovers on video-recorded presentations with programs like Screenflow can be a great way to reach students who are auditory learners. It’s also a way to engage students who get to hear the real voice of the teacher and read impressions and detect enthusiasm that can get lost in written feedback. The great thing about tech is that it allows more types of communication and creative ways to engage students—but it also is a two-way street. Various apps that allow you or your students to develop video with some flair like Filmora or Animoto can be a dynamic way to engage class material for everyone. Interactive Tech
In the classroom, communicating course content can be made more interactive by creating lessons where technology use is required through platforms like Blendspace (which can incorporate a YouTube video, Power Points, images and documents). You can engage students with interactive games like Kahoot —a quick multiple-choice quiz game the entire class plays on their phones or computer. Or you can engage student feedback through interactive polls like Poll Everywhere or Micropoll.