Sunday, July 23, 2017

Groupme, an app for communication

Hello all!

I just wanted to tell you all about an app I use to talk with my marching band students at Florida High. It is much like other communication apps. The nice part about it is, you do not need someone's phone number to connect, and it doesn't show your phone number when you connect. This makes it perfect for teacher student interactions.

One of the things I really like about it, is that it is that it has a lot of other useful functionalities. You can set up calendar events to remind people of things. Once you set up a calendar event, there is a place where you click yes or no. So for volunteer activities it's great. You can also start a poll. So, when deciding where to eat, instead of hand raising, you can just start a poll in group me that everyone can quickly answer.

The app also stores a gallery, so when kids share photos from football games they are all there and easy to access, you did not have to scroll through the entire chat. This is the same with large documents too. Instead of sending an image of a permission form, you can send the actual word document or pdf that can be printed. Overall, it is a great app and I suggest that you use it if you have a team that you need to communicate with.

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