Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Emailing Students
I feel that I wouldn't really email students. Mainly because so many of what is written online gets misconceived all of the time. It is very hard to get across tone, feelings, and opinions online. I would prefer to talk to my students in person after class. I would use the email to let students know if I wanted to talk to them. Besides that I would use email as a way to distribute things to all of my students at once. This would come in handy because it would no longer take class time up to hand out an important document. Another reason that I would use email is to send out websites that I want all of my students to use or look at. This will provide an easy way for the students to just click on the address and be right where I want them to be.
I agree with this issue in emailing. Perceived tone is often a problem. There is also the issue of wondering if the other party received the message. Email is definitely not something to solely rely on.
ReplyDeleteI, too, agree that email is not the end all be all of parent contact! I am always putting in my emails please email me back so I know you received this message. Sometimes I hear back and other times I don't. Then I often wonder if it was my parents who emailed back or my kids. Hard to tell when its typed (unless of course it's written in the IM language :0) )
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