Posted by Matt Harrell on June 8th, 2009 Almost everything in your life can be digital now. It’s quite amazing actually. As a family we rarely print pictures any more. Even the ones that we want to share get loaded onto a digital picture frame and proudly displayed in the middle of our house. I figure we’re saving a lot of trees; considering how many pictures we take of our 2 year old.
As true as this is for most folks, there are still a bunch of organizations that haven’t gone “digital”. One of them that is trying is the pre-school that my daughter is in. These teachers and coordinators pour their lives into these children. They teach them to pray before meals, teach them manners, how to act socially around other children, and there are endless games and crafts that help develop our children physically and spiritually. But they definitely go through lots of paper.
Sure craft-time causes them to use construction paper like it’s going out of style, but it’s much more than that. The entire parent directory, which changes drastically every year is printed and bound. There aren’t many days that go by that an announcement is sent home on pink or green sheet of paper. There is one teacher that even burns cd’s for each parent with pictures of the kids. The photos are named by each kid and sorted appropriately. I’m thinking pre-school programs could be quite the market for MemberHub.
Here are 5 ways that pre-schools and teachers can save money and trees by using online group communication tools:
- Allow parents to share and maintain their profile information online
- Send announcements via email and text messaging
- Upload all files, forms and parent tips into a common area; online
- Share photos online
- Encourage parents to share ideas, ask questions and generally connect online
Certainly this is just the beginning of the list. Can you think of any more? If you’re a pre-school or elementary teacher or a parent of young children in these programs I’d love for you to leave a comment and share more ideas below.
Another thought is that parents are always getting emails sent to them with specific information, attachments, and instead of having to go digging through your email to find that certain email, it can all be saved into one place on MemberHub that allows access to all of it on one interface…plus saves the time of going back through old emails looking for the info. I receive most of my emails on my phone, and check my computer email a couple of times of week…so a lot of times I forget to go back and look at those other email/attachments, and when I do…I spend time searching for them in my inbox. I recommend to go green with Memberhub as well as make your life easily organized by having information all in one place!
Great point AE! Yes, MemberHub can centralize information sharing. It's always "in the hub". Or as Curt at Church of the Apostles says, "You can call me, you can email me, but first…check the hub!". Thank you for dropping a comment ;0).
I am so excited about how MemberHub can help our preschool go green by saving paper and some money! We have already started this summer with a staff hub and it is such an easy way to get quick announcements out and discussions started. I totally agree with Anne Elizabeth that storing the parent handbook, directory, and other documents with be a time-saver! Everyone at the preschool will know where to find the infromation they seek instead of searching through their email, on a website or even through a pile of papers! Thanks so much for introducing me to MemberHub!
Very exciting indeed Beth. I think we've just discovered the tip of the iceberg here. I'm excited for you guys because I know software can help you and I think it's going to be great example for other pre-schools and teachers.
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