The Newsletter

As I go through these assignments, I try to apply them to my teaching as immediately as possible.  We are about to go on fall break at school.  So this was a perfect time to send a newsletter to my AP Physics class.  You can see an image of my newsletter to the left. A newsletter is an effective method of communicating with students and parents.

A second effective way to communicate is an old fashioned email.  Here is the text of an email that I sent to my AP Environmental Science class yesterday.

I just posted a video on Moodle on how to solve math problems for AP environmental science.  It is a bit longer than I intended, but watch it anyway.  Think about the method, and don't be intimidated by numbers!

The page with the video shows up at the end of unit one, below your tests.

Mr. Ingram

The email above is descriptive but to the point.  I think that is necessary for good email communication.  No one wants to read long emails.


A third effective method of communication is through updates to an LMS homepage.  Students see this page every day, and it can be adapted to show upcoming assignments, announcements, and other important information.  Here is a possible example that I made.

As a note, the Smore Newsletter is a bit of work to make, but it does give a nice slick presentation that is likely to get students and parents to read a longer message.