I was on the internet couple of days ago and I found something interesting. It has to do with a student - teacher communication tool which helps to send class messages from the teacher to the students.
The tool is named classparrot.It is a nice tool where teachers can create a free account and are given a class code which will be distributed to their students.
If students or parents are interested in signing up for text messages from the teacher, they simply text that code to classsparrot.
Teachers don't see student phone numbers and the students don't see teacher phone numbers. In fact,students don't even see each other's phone numbers.Teachers can then send class updates and reminders via text message to anyone that has signed up and smart phones is not required before you can make use of this tool.
Another great thing is that teachers can remind students of upcoming exams, send homework upates,event reminders and let parents opt-in to receive texts too.
this could be a good or bad thing depending on your point of view but if it sounds like something you are interested in , you should check it out and may bring this to the attention of your lecturers or maybe if you are involved in a group assignment- this can be helpful.
Visit... http://classparrot.com/
