What is slack?
Slack is a team communication tool created by Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, and Serguei Mourachov. Slack combines communication and team collaboration in one place, increasing classroom productivity, make progress the projects, gathering the students, conversations, tools and information you need.
You can use Slack to:
- Communicate with your students and organize your conversations by topic, project or by anything else that matters in the way you develop your classes.
- Send a message or make a call to any person or group.
- Share and edit documents and collaborate with your students.
- Automatically archive the conversations and files on your computer or your cellphone.
How can we get Slack?
We can get this app in google play. You can download it on your cell phone or use it online.
How can we Slack in the classroom or with our students?
The teacher can create a group in Slack with their students to communicate with them in a group or individual way, to give them instructions, to inform them about something or simply to congratulate them for their work.
For an activity in classes the teacher can make a forum, he proposes a topic that he considers interesting for the students and they make their comments on the topic, they write what they think and feel.
I have used this app before anf for me it's practical because you can share any type of file that you want. What makes it different from WhatsApp or any app related to chating, sahring documents etc, is that this one can be considered more secure because you are protecting your identity if you are the kind of person that is reserved on that. Also if you are a professor that gives lessons in more than one instutution, you can turn the groups into a "class" or classroom" if you will.
ResponderBorrarGreat app, I really like it, and I think I will use this app in the future. The idea to use another app different to WhatsApp is perfect, and save personal information like the telephone number, excellent.
ResponderBorrarExcellent one for learning English. I think if one student download it, he or she would improve a lot.
ResponderBorrarI think this app could be a good tool of communication.Also it is a good way to improve our different skills depende on the activities that we develop.
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