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?