Communicate 3.2.1 The Newsletter

Newsletters should be brief and engaging.  They need to be eye catching enough to be noticeable but not so busy as to be distracting.  The purpose is to convey important information like upcoming due dates, social events, and school related items.  For my three artifacts I tried all new (to me) highly effective modes of communication.  The first one shown in this post was created on thinglink.com, email, and I then used smore.com to create a newsletter.

I used thinglink.com to create this newsletter with important upcoming assignment due dates.  This was my first attempt with this and I definitely think that I could use more time to play around with it but I love the aspect of adding various types of media (images and video) to one single newsletter.  Hover over the image and click on the white and black circles to view the news item.



Here is an example of a weekly email I may send out to stakeholders:

Buenos días!
We have a busy month coming up so I wanted to highlight a few items so that you can plan ahead.
Final Exams:  Will be the week of 5/22.  You have one exam each day so check with your individual course teachers to find out the specific dates.  Spanish will be 5/23!Prom: Prom is on Saturday 5/3 this year.  Ticket are on sale now.  The cost is $50 per person or $80 per couple.  You must be a junior or senior to purchase tickets.
Summer Courses: Registration for summer courses is currently available.  Not all courses are offered.  There is a 4 week or 6 week option.  Contact your advisor with any questions.
Gracias!!!
Sra. Inglese

Here is a Smore.com newsletter that I created for a previous quest: