http://www.classdojo.com ClassDojo makes it easy to keep my students alert and on-task. You can use it to: Improve Behavior...Improve specific student behaviors and engagement by awarding and recording real-time feedback. Share Data...Print or email beautiful behavior reports to easily engage parents and staff. Save Time...by recording behaviors and accomplishments right in class, with one click. parents can also get reports of progress.  In class, the teacher awards points to students or ... records a negative behavior. these positive and negative buttons can be customized by the teacher based on what it needed for each class. The points are recorded on the chart for each student in the class. The teacher can also choose to put the class list on the interactive white board so students can see live when they earn points.  Or it can be kept private and the student can log in to see their own private information.  One of my favorite tools is to us...

https://workflowy.com I don't know about you, but I am a list-maker. I have so many lists and posit notes that I have lists of my lists. A tool I've started using recently is Workflowy.com. It allows you to make lists with sub-lists and cross them off but it stores them in case you ever need to refer back to that list in the future. I have made workflow.com my home page so anytime I turn on my computer my to do list is right there in front of me. This is a screen shot of Workflowy in action: This post originally featured on ballinwithballing.blogspot.com 

One tool I like to use to communicate with students and parents is Remind101.com. With Remind101 you can easily send a text message or email message to a class of students or to all of your students and parents. I especially like that I can set the time that the message will get set. Often I will set it to send the message out at 2:10pm because our last period ends at 2:15pm and my students will get the reminder just before they reach their lockers to go home. My advice.. make up a separate class for each class period that you meet with.  This way you can send a text and/or email message to every student in one class or every student in all classes.