Recently, we had our first family grand reunion in the Philippines. It was last June 12, 2011, but the planning started since a year a go. It was a challenge to keep every members of the family informed about any updates of our said reunion due to some members of the family are residing in various parts of the world such as Hong Kong, Italy, Dubai, Guam, parts of the mainland USA as well as various areas in the Philippines. We owe the success of our first family reunion to the Facebook. With the help of such technology, we were able to plan the event and kept connected with our families all over the world. Even up to now, we still use the social network to check on each other which we seldom do before due to communication challenges because of the high cost of phone calls, long wait for mails to come in the mailbox to name some of the challenges we had.
I hoped though that I knew much of the google docs at that time which I could had used to update our family listing/family tree without going to the hassle of emailing everyone and asking them to update their list. We could had work with the listing together as how we did the M&M Activity in class today.
Thank you technology for keeping me connected to my family.
I have to agree, Technology and Communication are a match-made-in-heaven!!
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Your going to see a lot of resources in the next two days that have different sharing options. Like our M&M spreadsheet was only shared with the class or your solo spreadsheet is just for you to see. This is an important feature to look for when you're picking a tool for children to use.
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