Hopefully by now you’ve heard the great news: you can now share content to your Remind groups within Wakelet (web version only for now). We now have a communication platform connected to an information platform. Cue the…
And now that these two (ed)tech giants are connected, it’s time to figure out all the ways Remind users can integrate with Wakelet. But, before we begin, let’s talk about what Wakelet is. Found interesting on the web? Add it to a Wakelet collection. Need to organize this content? Rearrange items in a Wakelet collection. Interested in letting others know about your content? Share your Wakelet collections on social media or embed them on your blog or website.
3 Ways to Integrate Wakelet and Remind
Publish and Share Weekly Newsletters
Do you send out weekly newsletters? Do you send them via email? According to mobile marketing research, SMS messages have a 98% open rate compared to 20% with email. With Wakelet, Remind users can create a collection newsletter, make it public or unlisted, and share it with their school community at some point during the week.
Messages sent on Remind — “Check out this week’s newsletter in our Wakelet Collection” — will be opened at a significantly greater rate than if you send them in an email blast. Another benefit of using Remind to share Wakelet collection is analytics. With Remind’s analytics you can see who’s opened and interacted with your content and who’s left a reaction. These reactions can open up further conversations with your families.
Share Pictures and Videos
I often use Instagram to help tell the daily stories of our classrooms. IFTTT applets also share these posts to Twitter and Facebook. But even through this cross-posting, I’m missing all the families not using these social platforms. Add in the news feed algorithms and who knows who’s interacting with my content? Also, consider that some teachers, schools and districts have strict guidelines about sharing students and their work on social media. Wakelet’s ‘Share to Remind’ integration can help solve this problem.
Instead of telling stories one picture or video at a time, Remind users can create a Wakelet collection — public or unlisted — and add content from their mobile or desktop of students working on projects. Users can then share this collection to their Remind groups every day, or perhaps at the end of the week. Assuming all of your families are part of your class’ Remind group, you’ve ensured everyone receives your content.
Sharing Student Portfolios
Are you using Google Classroom or Office365 to curate and organize student portfolios? Are you using SeeSaw? Are you using student blogs? Do you ever wonder if parents are looking at their children’s portfolios? Sure you can send invites, but what do you know about their engagement? With Wakelet’s “Share to Remind” integration, you’ll be able to better target your audience.
You could create a Wakelet collection for each student and share it with parents weekly. And depending on the age of your students, you could have them be contributors to their collection — it is their learning after all. If this doesn’t seem feasible, perhaps sharing a Collection of the whole class’s work involving a particular project works better — just be mindful of FERPA.
If your students use blogs as portfolios, you might create a Wakelet collection that includes links to the individual blogs. Once again, just be aware of student privacy.
These are just a few of the ways Remind users might use Wakelet. How are you using Wakelet’s “Share to Remind” integration? Please comment with your ideas. Also, check out my Wakelet profile. Let’s connect and collaborate.
