Introduction to Edmodo
- Sign up for free school and district features…cater to educators
- Can share all kinds of documents and can edit and share lots of lessons
- Can talk with a whole class, part of a class, or individuals so lots of diversity
- You can grade in Edmodo by making assignments available to students
- It is mobile so you can get it on your phone to follow
- Professional development groups to share resources and connect within the community of Edmodo
- Links to your community of educators are very easy to use...click on teacher’s name
- Under Edmodo Community to request friends
- Entire districts and have access to their own group
- Can connect to individual teachers and send messages
- Create a class and students have an account
- Personal Use: I have been using this with other science teachers to share resources at Westside Middle.
Wiki's in the Classroom
- Collaboration is a skill and kids need to learn it
- Can do at any time--whatever works for the individual
- Can be a final product as a result of the process
- Peer review can become important to them and get them more serious about their contribution
- One person edits at a time
- Students can’t be possessive…it is shared and they need to learn what, when, and how to edit other people's work
- Quick, collaborative, can be monitored by the teacher, ever changing products
- All users are equal contributors, asynchronous, geographical limitations lessened
- Can be used to create a reference library for students or teachers
- One computer or many…it still works
- Digital natives (students) have an easy time with it, writing skills enhanced, community developed
- Of practice, on-demand learning
- Problems: privacy/security, competition for page access, personal attachment to content
- And peer editing, unstructured in a way, content cloning, need internet connection
- Personal Use: Students in my science class that tested out of the scientific method unit did an experiment on their own, then put the lab write-up together on a Wiki space through Blackboard
Twitter in the Classroom by BrainPOP
- Microblogging tool 140 characters at a time.
- Can do as a whole group or on their own time
- Can reference individual students or talk to class in general
- Parents can get connected and follow what is going on in the class
- Stream you can follow about topics you are interested in
- Express ideas, what they are learning, builds writing fluency, helps bilingual students
- Helps with grammar practice, computer skills are important to learn and use
- Easily collaborate with other classrooms, record classroom events and share with other classrooms and the global connection
- Survey other classrooms, summarize what is being learned, post happenings (assignments), content connections, post pics and videos of learning
- You can control what is seen and shared and can give students feedback
- Personal Use: Since Twitter is blocked here at school, I did use the blog function on Blackboard to have students discuss the characteristics of living things with another teacher's students
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