Oct 24, 2023: Using texting to engage with learners

PAST SESSIONS

2023 Session 3:
Using texting to engage with learners

Delivered on Tuesday, October 24, 2023

SESSION RECORDING

SESSION SLIDES AND OTHER RESOURCES

AP Virtual Showcase 2023 - Session 3 Public

MENTIONED DURING THE MEETING

Other texting tools

Text Now
Remind
Seesaw

Note: Consider teaching learners how to add a person/program to their Contacts on a mobile device (including the number your text messages will be coming from). It will ensure that learners will know who is texting them and won't treat the messages as spam.

SESSION DESCRIPTION

Since many learners have access to mobile phones and use them on a daily basis, literacy programs started using texting to engage with their clients. Join us to hear from our guests about the software they use and the benefits/changes they have noticed. We will also chat with the owner of a Canadian company providing texting software (including a custom phone number to display when sending a text) to help answer any questions you might have about texting tools.

GUEST PRESENTERS

Jane Wouda, Lead Instructor
Training & Learning Centre of Renfrew County

Jane has been the Literacy and Basic Skills Instructor at the Training & Learning Centre of Renfrew County for about 10 years.
She had a classroom in Pikwakanagan, Ontario, for about 3 years and also worked as the “travelling” instructor, taking her classroom on the road to many small towns and villages in Eastern Ontario. Since the pandemic, Jane has been the primary online instructor, teaching classes over Zoom and other video platforms.

Paul Crane, Founder
Local Text Marketers

Paul is the CEO and founder of Local Text Marketers. Launched in 2012, Local Text Marketers is an all-Canadian company offering desktop texting applications to businesses, organizations and non-profits in Canada and the USA.

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