Families&Technology

=Supporting Family Involvement and Communication with Technology= There are countless ways to improve our relationships with families and countless ways technology can help.

•online newsletters:
[|Nelson's News] [|Hickory News] or **on paper w/photo enhancements**:

•Build a class website:
[|Ms. Jensen's Kindergarten] [|Mrs. Eckley's 4th]**
 * [|Kathy Cassidy's Grades 1 and 2 Blog]

•Use videos and audio, online or otherwise. These can be great at family conferences.
Class activites and presentations can be shared, and work samples captured Recorded reading samples can be made available- Raz-Kids, Garageband, video Recorded and, perhaps, packaged: [|Fiction Focus] for example

•Slideshows
Set up in the hall or at events, to showcase what happens in your classes.

•Links to Resources Supporting Families and Children
These resources can help us become more familiar with who we teach and how to support them.

10/30/2008 ICSDTI09 Wikis: Easy Authoring and Co-Authoring on the Web 9:00-3:00 11/18/2008 ICSDTI09 Digital Storytelling 9:00-3:00 11/3/2008 ICSDTI09 Family Conferences with Video and Photos Embedded 2:45-5:00> Not yet in MLP, Want to do it?
 * Workshops to support some of the above:**