This document discusses how technology can be used as an effective communication tool for schools. It outlines several applications like digital portfolios, social media, blogs, and classroom websites that can improve communication with students, parents, and the community. These tools allow schools to share information more easily, engage parents in their child's education, and create a sense of involvement and pride in the community. The overall message is that embracing technology can enhance communication, which is key to student success.

1. Communication Through
Technology
21st
Century Goals

2. Don’t Deface… Embrace!

3. Where Is Technology Useful?
• Communication With Students
• Communication With Parents
• Communication With the Community

4. Communication is the Key to
Our Students’ Success!
Online Grade Book is Not Enough!!!

5. Applications We Can Utilize
Digital Portfolios, Social Media, Blogs
and Class Websites

6. Digital Portfolios

7. Uses Of The Digital Portfolio
• Starts Our Students on the Right Path
• Future Educational Opportunities
• Employment Opportunities
• Organization
• Workplace
Readiness
• Global Skills and
Communication

8. Social Media
“Many schools are no longer debating
whether social networking should play a
role in education. Instead, that debate has
shifted to what social networking tools
work best and how to deploy them.”
(Digital Directions, June 16, 2010)

9. Uses Of Social Media
• For The Creation of Club Hubs
• Tweeting for Homework Assignments
• Sharing Links on Facebook
• Reaching Out
to Larger
Communities
of Professionals

10. Ten Reasons For a Classroom
Website
• It’s your gateway to engagement
• It’s a two-way street
• It’s okay to show off
• Your contributions go farther than you think
• Helicopter parents have an off-site landing pad
• You have an easy answer to “What did I miss?”
• It’s getting so easy to do that it can actually save you time
• A teaching website keeps you organized and on track
• You’re creating an archive of your class – complete with the exact
materials you’ve used
• It’s an easy way to meet the needs of many students who have IEP
and 504 plans
(Taken from cleanapple.com)

11. Why Is Technology An
Effective Communication Tool
With Student Population?

12. Our Students Use Technology
on a Daily Basis
“31.1 percent of high school students
spend three hours or more on the
computer every day.”
Scott, Dylan, U.S. Youth Spend More Time on Computers, Less in Front of TV, June 11, 2012
http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-
us-youth-spend-more-time-on-computers-less-in-front-of-tv.html

13. Communicating with Parents
Technology can be used as an easier and
less time consuming way to
communicate with our students’ parents

14. Different Ways to
Communicate With Parents
Classroom Website
Blogs
Emails

15. Involved Parents Create Better
Students!

16. “Parent Involvement is one factor that has
been consistently related to a child’s
academic performance.”
Topor, D.R., Keane, S.P., Shelton,
T.L., and Calkins,S.D. (2011)
Parent Involvement and
Student Academic Performance:
A multiple mediational analysis.
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17. “Parents who have a positive attitude
towards their child’s education, school,
and teacher are able to positively
influence their child’s academic
performance…”
Topor, D.R., Keane, S.P., Shelton, T.L., and
Calkins,S.D. (2011)
Parent Involvement and
Student Academic Performance:

19. Let’s Create a Sense of Pride

20. Utilize Technology to
Communicate
Keeping Our Community Up to Date Will
Keep Our Students Involved!

21. Communication Is The Goal
If We All Work Together, We Can Create
The School, and Community That We Want
For Our Children!!!