YackPack

YackPack can quickly improve educational communication. Motivate students, give quality feedback with ease and communicate clearly with students, parents and administrators.

YackPack's simple and convenient interface allows students and teachers to focus on content and not be distracted by the underlying technology. With this being said its format can be used for all content areas. Are you finding it hard to implement technology in Math, Social Studies, Spanish or another area? This platform can be used across the curriculum!

YackPack messaging is done at your convenience. You log in when you want, you listen, and you yack. All the messages are stored for future reference.

Most important, YackPack captures and conveys the expressiveness of voice putting emotion into virtual learning environments and enhancing traditional classroom interactions outside of class time.

YackPack gives you a private and secure space that's safe from outsiders.
Once you create a YackPack for each class, you can:

Grade student work, giving quality feedback and saving yourself time. See how you can do this!
Give assignments for oral practice in foreign language learning as well as speaking and presentation skills.
Offer encouragement on assignments.
Discuss topics as a class, as staff, as a district, and with other educators.
Answer questions from students. Watch a short movie showing teacher-student interactions in YackPack.
Collaborate with other classrooms.
Invite guests to join in from around the world.
You can talk in real time - just push and talk. Everyone logged in can hear you.

Here is a video on how a professor uses YackPack with her Chinese foreign language learners.