Classroom Dojo, you may have heard of this program or you may have not. Chances are you will. This is a nifty little program that keeps parents connected with everything you do in your classroom. I personally like it because it's only accessible to them and no one else. What you do is you first enroll in the program and establish yourself a classroom presence. After that you add all of your students. When you add students, Classroom Dojo assigns them a little monster avatar, then you have your class set.
It's nice because you can click on each kid and you can give them "praise," such as helping others, participating, persistence and other good things. If you wanted to you could also put them in groups for various reasons, perhaps project work or other things such as this. I personally love being able to upload pictures of things we are doing in class and parents can see instantly what their children learned that day or how an activity turned out. It keeps track of all of your photos and in a way it's a timeline of every thing you did that year which could make for a great video for both you and your parents. Since kinder is such a pivotal year parents have access to photos from school that they can look back on for year to come.
This is the first year I have used it and I have been extremely happy with it. I foresee using it from now on. The only problem I have had with it is that not all parents have joined up. The only thing you can do is send out printed invitations (which Classroom Dojo generates for you) every so often in the hopes that they will join. What's even cooler is they can generate invitations in other languages in case your parents speak something other than English.
It's a wonderful site. I totally recommend it. You can find it at this site: Classroom Dojo
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