The start of the school year is the perfect time to start connecting with parents and families. When families come in to enroll their children, here are some numbers you can give them to stay connected, have a voice, and have some fun all year long.
Anyone (in the U.S.) can receive tweets on their phone even if they haven’t signed up for Twitter. This is a simple way for people to get information they care about in real time. For example, let’s say you want to get tweets from New York City Schools (@NYCSchools). Just text ‘follow NYCSchools’ to 40404. It doesn’t have to stop with following your school district. Schools, principals and even teachers can set up Twitter accounts to keep parents connected to the latest information. Locke Elementary School in Chicago uses it to great effect.
For schools with multi-lingual populations you can set up language-specific accounts.
Help families keep themselves and their students sharp all year long with @QuizU. This app sends quiz questions to phones for free. Users submit the answer. They will find out if they are correct or incorrect instantly by having the correct answer sent to their phone. Scores are tracked and there are prizes for those who answer 500 correct questions.
Just text 898932 with any of the following messages:
@quizu.history for History
@quizu.geo for Geography
@quizu.gs for GeneralScience
@quizu.current for current affairs quiz
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