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What is EdModo ?

Edmodo is a website that provides on online forum through which teachers and students can communicate with one another. Most commonly compared to or called “Facebook for teachers and students”, this tool “brings your classroom online.” Teachers, students, parents and administrators can use Edmodo to post and complete assignments, to create and score quizzes, to check student progress, and to discover and share a variety of information.

What are the benefits of EdModo?

As we know, it is absolutely critical that students gain online comprehension skills as well as obtain proficiency in using technological tools to learn, collaborate, communicate, gain and share information, work, play, and accomplish a number of other tasks. Edmodo allows students to do all of these things.

Here are some additional benefits of the tool:

1) Because Edmodo looks like Facebook and is essentially “social media” for the classroom, students are engaged to use it and already are familiar with its structure 2) Teachers can save time by using the software to create quizzes, which Edmodo grades for them and creates useful data with the results 3) Parents can access student information via teacher notifications, uploaded photos, assignments and grades, comments between teacher and child, etc. 4) Students build their skills of becoming independent and self-monitoring by logging in to view and submit assignments, something they will most likely do in college and in their career 5) Teacher can grade assignments online (and add comments), which also creates a digital portfolio of student work over time 6) The online use of quizzes and assignments help to create a “paperless” classroom for teachers who are interested in preserving resources 7) The website also allows for collaboration and discussion between classmates with the “group”, “wall”, and “poll” features

Here is an Example of a EdModo we created.

When you create an EdModo account, it becomes private between you and your students. Therefore, in order to view our sample account, you will need to create your own account (directions below) and type in the “join URL” for my class as if you are one of my students. The “join URL” for my Edmodo page is: edmo.do/j/32zn8t

When you have an account, you can also access it at http://edmodo.com/msknoxsclass

EdModo Activity

1) Visit [|www.edmodo.com] . Click “sign up now” to create an account. 2) Enter your name, and have the program search for your school. If your school is not listed, add it to the list. 3) Select the content that you teach or with which you affiliate. 4) This will lead to your homepage, which looks just like a Facebook “wall.” You may choose to do one of the following three options: 5) Check out this comprehensive [|student guide.] 6) View these [|quick guides] to roll out Edmodo in your grade level/subject area.
 * Create a group. Once you enter the basic info for your class, it gives you a code that you can give to the students. When a student goes into the edmodo homepage, they can click “I’m a student” and then type in the code. This will lead them to your page!
 * Create a quiz. On Edmodo you are able to create Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, or Short Answer quizzes. Students can log in, take the quiz, and the website will grade it for you!
 * Explore your content community. When you initially signed up, you affiliated yourself with a “group” that represents the content you teach. You can use this community forum to explore how other teachers in your content area are using EdModo, or just to pose questions about basic content-related issues, whether or not they are related to EdModo.

How can I use EdModo in my classroom? **Student Examples** Students can do a number of activities while on EdModo: 1) View their grades and access progress 2) Personalize their profile 3) Organize files 4) Receive alerts about classroom assignments or other announcements 5) Take quizzes 6) Answer poll questions 7) Earn “badges” for their progress 8) Discuss classroom topics with teammates via a “wall” or forum 9) Create and join “groups” to engage in collaborative learning and projects

[|These students] used role playing to put themselves in a historical fiction character’s shoes [|This student] used Edmodo and Evernote to peer edit: [|These 4th grade students] connected with other students around the globe via Edmodo who had also read the same book

 **Teacher Examples** With Edmodo, teachers can: 1) Create poll questions 2) Create/give quizzes and celebrate progress with the entire class 3) Load/grade assignments and analyze the data for trends 4) Download/buy apps 5) Upload photos 6) Communicate with parents (send alerts via texts, allow parents to check grades, view classroom updates and photos) 7) Award students badges 8) Join communities to network with other professionals

Check out the way this [|math teacher] is using Edmodo to track data in her 7th grade math classroom: Watch [|this video] of how a teacher uploads her assignments to Edmodo in her Reading classroom: This teacher uses [|role playing] to teach her students about historical figures:

Here are some additional content-specific ideas: 1) English/ Grammar: go in and pull up postings that students have made. As a class, edit the material for grammar, capitalization, and punctuation. This is a great way to build grammatical skills with the “practice material” readily available to you. [|Source] 2) Social Studies: Hold a “cultural exchange.” Have students create groups in which they “showcase” a particular aspect of say, Greek culture. Students can do a gallery walk of each others’ group pages to learn about that culture. [|Source] 3 ) Science: Create a “Science Fair” group and send everyone in the school, including students, parents, and teachers, to view the students’ science projects (Power Point Presentations, Glogsters, etc.) [|Source] 4 ) Elementary: -Upload audio files of students reading. Have them self-critique or critique each others’ fluency levels. -Create a “playground” area where students can have a forum to post “just for fun” and talk about whatever they want (within school appropriateness, of course.) [|Source]

*Edmodo “Teacher Manual”: [|https://support.edmodo.com/home#teacher] *Edmodo “Student Manual”: [|https://support.edmodo.com/home#student] *Edmodo “Parent Manual”: [|https://support.edmodo.com/home#parent] *Tutorial Videos: [|https://support.edmodo.com/home#entries/22006035-webinars]
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