8 Digital Resources To Stay Connected to Families This Summer

I had the opportunity to speak to parent coordinators (those who are the liaison between families and schools) about great tools to stay connected to families this summer.  The focus was on free social media tools that parents can access via their cell phone. About half of the resources could be accessed on basic, text enabled phones which is great for communities where not all parents have consistent data plans or internet access.

I shared examples of each of the following tools. The goal for participants was to come away with one tool they would use this summer to stay connected with families.

Here are the resources I shared:

	Tool	Number	URL
1	Cel.ly	23559	http://cel.ly
2	Facebook	N/A	https://www.facebook.com
3	iPadio	866-605-0336	http://www.ipadio.com
4	Remind	81010	http://www.remind.com
5	Twitter Fast Follow	40404	https://twitter.com
6	UStream	N/A	http://www.ustream.tv
7	Vimeo	N/A	https://vimeo.com
8	YouTube	N/A	https://www.youtube.com

Here is the presentation I delivered to show how each resource is used:

Which of these resources have you used?  What has worked well? Have examples?  Share in the comments.