Communication

Padlet and Linoit are examples of digital pinboards that can be used for brainstorming, exit slips, questions from students or sharing ideas. This padlet wall is for you to each add a post - How would you use one of these digital tools with students?
 * Digital Pinboards **

As well as being an excellent tool for teacher reflection, blogging is a fantastic way to improve literacy skills within your classroom. It allows your students to have an authentic audience (peers, parents, relatives and students across the globe) and a platform to share their thoughts. Blogging allows them to practice and share their writing and track improvement over time. A blog becomes a place to collect their work, express their ideas and communicate with others who share their interests. Hawkesdale P12 College School blog - several teachers and students contribute to this blog. penbentley.com - Penny's blog for documenting professional development. Technoscience - A teacher blog for students and parents to know what we are doing in the classroom. Technomaths - Another teacher blog to share classroom practice. Anne Mirtshin and I presented on the "Benefits of Blogging". Kathleen Morris writes about blogging here: "Blogging is Literacy". There are several free platforms suitable for student blogging, including Edublog, [|Wordpress], Tumblr, and Weebly.
 * Blogs **




 * Task:** Create your own blog for any of the following reasons:
 * A public class blog to share student work and to allow parents and peers to see what happens in your classroom.
 * A public teacher blog to share your ideas about professional practice.
 * A public or private blog to record your ideas, reflections, goals, poetry etc.

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Creating an Edmodo community for classes as an introduction to blogging and as a class communication tool. Edmodo can be used for teachers to communicate with each other and for teachers and students to communicate.
 * Edmodo**

Evernote makes it easy to remember, store and retrieve documents, photos, audio files etc using any of your devices.
 * Evernote**