Email is the most commonly used communication tool by our teachers, staff, and administrators. Newsletters and school updates are also emailed to the whole community, including parents. Rarely, though, is email used on the student-faculty level. Most communication at this level takes place through our virtual classroom environment.

Between students, talking and texting on cell phones, and social networking, such as at Facebook, have become dominant forms of communication. Students also "interact" with websites such as YouTube. The video below from YouTube gives a history of the rise of YouTube.




More on texting

Text messaging has been a very common (and inexpensive) mode of wireless communication abroad. In recent years, it has experienced dramatic growth in popularity in the U.S. Follow this link to an article on cnet that talks about this growth: U.S. text usage . . .