1. Exploring Online Applications for
Education
By Sean Nartiff

2. Application #1:
Edmodo

4. What is Edmodo?
“Edmodo provides teachers and students a
secure place to connect and
collaborate, share content and educational
applications, and access
homework, grades, class discussions and
notifications. Our goal is to help educators
harness the power of social media to
customize the classroom for each and every
learner.”
Video: Edmodo for Language Arts

5. Feature #1 Assignments

7. Assignments
 Post description of assignment
 Due date
 Attach files, links, and items in teacher’s
digital library

8. Feature #2 Quizzes

10. Quizzes
 Create multiple choice, true/false, short
answer, and fill in the blank questions
 Set time limits
 Option for students to automatically see
results
 Load previously created questions

11. Feature #3 Groups

13. Groups
 Restricted groups require access code
(separate them for subject, class, or faculty
purposes)
 Option to moderate all posts.
◦ Prevent spamming & inappropriate posts
 Award badges
 Archive groups from previous semester/year
◦ Provides access to all posts but disables new
discussion

14. Application #2:
Delicious

16. What is Delicious?
“Delicious is the place to collect and
showcase your passions from across the
web. Save what you like -
videos, pictures, tweets, blog posts, or
articles - on topics you enjoy and search
through others’ collections of links to
discover cool stuff!”

17. Feature #1 Social Search

19. Social Search
 Search results based on user’s query and the
number of times the page has been saved
◦ Find the most interesting & relevant information
first
 Share button allows you to email page or
send it to another username
 Tags make it easy to predict what content will
be on the page

20. Feature #2 Follow

22. Follow
 See who saved a page and their
comments
 View user profiles and find what they find
interesting
◦ Teachers will definitely have relevant links you
want to see!

23. Feature #3 Tag Bundles

25. Tag Bundles
 Organize the pages you have previously
saved
 Customize tags so that all pages with the
same tags are bundled into a single group
◦ A perfect way to organize online content for
students by subject, lesson, etc.

26. Application #3:
YouTube Education

28. What is YouTube Education?
“YouTube EDU brings learners and
educators together in a global video
classroom. On YouTube EDU, you have
access to a broad set of educational
videos that range from academic lectures
to inspirational speeches and everything
in between”

29. Feature #1 Learn

31. Learn
 Find videos that explain concepts well to
students
 Discover new ways to teach a lesson
 Videos are divided by subject
◦ Languages, History, Science, Math

33. Create
 Consider creating your own YouTube
channel
◦ A different way to reach your students outside
of class.
◦ Expand reach to a global audience
 Have channel be nominated to become
part of the YouTube’s EDU library

34. Feature #3 Appropriate Content

35. Why use YouTube in school?
Video:http://youtu.be/NegRGfGYOwQ

36. Appropriate Content
 Administration and teachers can log-in
and watch any video but students can’t
log in
 Well-known organizations like
PBS, TED, and Standford

37. Thank You for Viewing!