Now You Can Download Your Remind 101 Messages

This week the popular text messaging service Remind 101 introduced a new option to download all or part of your message history. To downloa...

Two Things You Can Do To Increase Communication With Parents

1. Blog consistently. Every year I help teachers create new blogs and every year by the time winter holidays roll around some of those blogs...

Distributing Files With Facebook and Google Drive

A few years ago I wrote a series of posts about how I was using a Facebook page to keep students and parents informed of important things ha...

Use the Remind 101 iPhone App to Keep Students and Parents Informed

I'm about a week late on this but it's still worth sharing the news that Remind 101 has released a free iPhone app . Remind 101 is ...

7 Services for Sending Group Texts to Parents and Students

People, particularly teenagers, have an almost compulsive reaction to open text messages when their phones beep or buzz. So if you want to q...

Google+ Pages - Use Google+ to Connect With Your Community

Today, Google launched Google+ Pages. I created a Google+ Page for Free Technology for Teachers . If you're inclined to, I'd love t...

Convofy - A Private Social Network for Your Organization

Convofy is a new service that provides private social networks for organizations. The purpose of Convofy is to provide a centralized locati...

How to Create a Facebook Group for Your Classes

Last week I Tweeted that I had created a Facebook fan page for my course blog. (As an aside I run one general info blog for all of my cours...