This document provides an overview of resources for creating an online educational community using Edmodo. It discusses setting up accounts on Edmodo for teachers and students, features of Edmodo like groups, calendar, file sharing, and microblogging. It also provides guidance on how to introduce Edmodo to students and parents, including sharing the purpose and acceptable use policies. Specific ideas are given for using Edmodo in classes for social studies, science, literature and other subjects.

1. Secure Online Interactive Educational Community

2. Accessibility Archived Presentation at… www.recessduty.wordpress.com

3. Backchanneling Today’s Meet: ewitc http://todaysmeet.com Twitter #edmodo (# = hashtag – way of categorizing, finding)

4. Valuable "Teachers must become comfortable as co-learners with their students and with colleagues around the world. Today it is less about staying ahead and more about moving ahead as members of dynamic learning communities. The digital-age teaching professional must demonstrate a vision of technology infusion and develop the technology skills of others. These are the hallmarks of the new education leader." —Don Knezek, ISTE CEO, 2008

5. Specific Teacher Learning Skills NETS for Teachers 2008 Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessment Model Digital-Age Work and Learning Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

6. Valuable "What students should know and be able to do to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital world …”

7. Specific Student Learning Skills Creativity and Innovation Communication and Collaboration Research and Information Fluency Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Digital Citizenship Technology Operations and Concepts

8. “ Educate our students not for our past, but for their future!” – Daniel Pink Creative Informative Innovative Communication Problem Solving Digital 1.3 Million Views CNN Southwest Airlines – Famous – No Money Spent on Ads

9. Resources International Society for Technology in Education http://www.iste.org/ http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007_Standards.pdf

10. IMPORTANT! What are the students saying? I didn’t pay them anything!

11. Content First - General Social Studies Science Literature, Language Mathematics Spanish

12. Content First – Specific Social Studies Current Events – uploading by teacher, reading by students, discussion by class Backchanneling – discussion of video content while video is being viewed Platform for created commercials to summarize or introduce content

13. Content First – Specific Mathematics Super Scribe of the Day Completed One Entire Lesson Large Group Collaboration Delivered detailed explanations on homework with students while at a Technology Conference in Minnesota

14. Content First – Specific Science Coal vs. Nuclear Energy assignment: Due date – no turn in Completely paperless

15. Content First – Specific Literature Brainstorming ideas on a topic Predicted events in a book during group read a loud Literature Circles: Created book group specific to each group

16. Tool Second EDMODO DELIVERS! What our Edmodo looks like! http://www.edmodo.com

17. Specific Features Secure Log In Groups Instant Microblogging Among Everyone Calendar Upload Links Embedding Video

18. Introductory Letter To Parents ATTITUDE HOUSE PARENTS In an effort to teach our children 21st century skills, we introduced www.edmodo.com to the students today. It is a SECURE online community that ONLY Attitude House students and staff can access. It is an opportunity for students to think together, share together, and learn together in a controlled environment. We will be utilizing this in all of our classes as a way to enrich classroom dialogue. If you do not have INTERNET access at home, your student will be the first students allowed to use the computers in our house during team study. We also understand that a computer or internet access may not happen due to equipment failure. We will work with your son or daughter if this technology failure arises. Finally, if there is any misuse of language by an individual student as outlined by our district technology use form, which all students signed at the beginning of the year, that student will lose their privilege of remaining in our online learning community.

19. Steps To Set Up Your Edmodo Username: Password: Email: http://www.meltmail.com Title: First Name: Last Name:

20. View It! http://tinyurl.com/edmodosignup The First Name and Last Name are the pieces of information viewable by students

21. Already In… Features Three Main Sections: Left, Middle, Right Calendar, Settings, Logout Recent Alerts, Assignments, Events Show Create or Join Group JOIN group EWITCedmodo

22. Create Group Only One Unique Group Name Can Exist Throughout The Entire Edmodo Community – Choose Wisely

23. Get Code

24. Student Sign Up After group is made – get students involved! Upper right corner – sign up as student www.edmodo.com

25. Your Turn To Join The Fun Use Graduation Class Year NOT NEEDED Only Use First Name & Last Initial Only You Have The Code

26. Reflection What are your favorite features of Edmodo? Specific ideas for classroom use of Edmodo! Who are you going to share this with?

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28. Implemented Resources Powerpoint - Kick YouTube www.edmodo.com www.slideshare.net www.meltmail.com www.twitter.com www.todaysmeet.com www.zamzar.com