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edmodoA social learning network
Faye BerlageSayre Language Academy
TechTalk – January 27, 2012 2:15pm – 3:00pmTwitter: #cpstt
Do your students use these?
If so, then edmodo will …
•Engage your students by looking familiar
•Enable you to improve communication with your students
•Allow you to reduce the amount of paper you use in the classroom
What is edmodo?•Free social learning network for teachers, students, schools, and districts
•Provides a safe and easy way to:▫Connect▫Exchange ideas▫Share content▫Access homework, grades, and school
notices
No worries about security
•Use cps.edmodo.com instead of www.edmodo.com
•Closed environment•No private info required from students•Students join by invitation from teacher
only•Teacher has full management control•Students cannot directly message each
other•All messages and communications are
archived
How to begin?
Store contentreuse & sharing Post
assignments, notes, quizzes,
and polls
Grade work
Teacher View
Create groups
First Step – Create a group
•Organize by: content areas, homerooms, grade levels
•Receive a Group Code
•Give code to your students when they are creating their student accounts
Student View Can only post to teacher or whole class
Receive notification of grades, alerts, and comments
Can only join groups – cannot
create them
Parent code to create parent
account
Create groups for
classes, subjects,
clubs, and small groups
Managem
ent
Teacher and student
profiles – profile image,
learning style, etc.
Keep group secure – lock it
once all students have
joined
Manage students –
remove, set to read only, reset
password
Notifications - see new activity,
assignments turned in, & comments
Managem
ent
Award badges
Organizing your groups
•One group for each classroom•After school class group•Groups for PD and
collaboration with other teachers
Best Practices in Safety
•Once all students have joined your group, lock the group code
•Teach online etiquette•Have students agree to a list of rules and
policies up front•Edit or delete posts that are inappropriate•Set students to “Read-Only” status as
needed▫Read-Only students can turn-in
assignments and post messages to teacher but not group
Edmodo in the classroom• Polls
• Using the edmodo wall▫Classroom discussion questions▫Writing prompts
• Assignments▫Assignment descriptions, due date, relevant links
and documents can be posted with the assignment▫Documents and projects can be uploaded and
turned in▫Video clips can be embedded and students can
respond to a posted question about the video
GradesExport grades
to CSV file
Calculates average grade
Communication & Grading
Student can submit multiple
versions of assignment
Teacher and student can
communicate about
assignment
Quizzes
Assign due dateAdd to
gradebook automatically
Create Badges for your students
Libraries• When planning, save documents, links, and videos in
a folder to later attach to an assignment• Organize information by content areas or classrooms• My Folders or Shared with me
How I use it – tech ed
•Assignments▫Electronic copy of assignment directions▫Ability to turn in completed work▫No flash drive? “Turn in” work that isn’t
finished in order to save it and work on it later
Directions can be attached to the assignment
Some of my assignments•Have students take a poll & make a graph
in Excel of results•Embed flashcards from Quizlet of
technology terms•Post link to free typing test website and
have students reply to post with their WPM (words per minute)
•Have students make an avatar to be their profile picture
•Embed glogs
Differentiation
•Can send different assignments to individual students
•Can create a small group (sub-group) within a class for students with special needs or modification requirements
Some ideas from edmodo
Visit: help.edmodo.com/edmodo-mini-lessons
Language Arts• Writing prompt on wall about last night’s reading
assignment• Use edmodo as a replacement for in class
journaling• Video clip of movie posted to wall
▫Students reply and compare/contrast movie scene with same scene in the book
• Students can “turn in” (upload)▫Book report▫Writing response paper▫Power point presentations▫Really anything!
Social Studies – Living History Lessons• Posting on wall
▫ Role playing▫ Writing prompt
• Provide links to articles, video clips, about a topic. Students have to:▫ choose which side of the argument they want to support▫ write at least one paragraph explaining why they chose their
position▫ use information from the text/video provided and/or from
classroom discussions to support their statement• Help students track current events
▫ Create a new group (where all students are read-only) called News
▫ Subscribe group to RSS feed from local news provider (BBC Newsround in the UK has child friendly news)
▫ That’s it! The students will see the news articles in their timelines on a daily basis.
Science•Embed a video of a science experiment
(schooltube) and students reply with hypothesis
•Project a video on the big screen and pause the video at important points, giving the students a chance to take notes in their Edmodo group▫After video, project up the Edmodo wall with the
notes and discuss▫Create an online quiz in Edmodo with the class,
having each student contribute a question (and answer)
▫Have students take the quiz.
Mathematics
•Puzzles and brain benders posted on the wall and students reply with their answers
•Embed digital interactives▫Play games directly in edmodo
•Post daily math notes after class
How to get more ideas …
•Follow different content area communities
•Find connections through your profile
Browse CommunitiesClick on your profile and Browse Communities on the right side bar
Edmodo Training and Support• Join weekly Edmodo Webinars
▫blog.edmodo.com/category/webinar• Use Help Center to answer questions
▫help.edmodo.com• Visit the support community
▫edmodo.com/community/support• Get more ideas
▫help.edmodo.com/ideas▫blog.edmodo.com
• Follow Edmodo updates▫Facebook (facebook.com/edmodo)▫Twitter (#edmodo)
Join the 20 Ways to Use Edmodo Group
Group Code: 61ulgl
Questions?