Edmodo is a private communication platform designed for teachers and students to share text, links, files, and assignments. It allows teachers to create groups, assignments, polls, and calendars. Students can access homework and submit assignments through Edmodo from anywhere. While it provides paperless communication and assessment, some teachers may lack training in using educational technology.

1. Edmodo, Twitter & Yammer: Micro-Blogging in Education Monday, January 25, 2010 By: Cynthia S. Medina

2. http://www.edmodo.com A Simple Communication Platform

3. A Blend of Social Networking & Online Classes Edmodo was created to provide a private communication platform built for teachers, students, and classrooms.

4. What can you do with Edmodo? Share text links and files. Share embeds Create events Create alerts Create assignments Grade assignments Create a calendar Chat with specific students, groups, or class as a whole Access to homework away from the classroom

6. Teacher’s Home Page

7. List of Groups

8. Creating a group is extremely easy! Group Code

9. Customize and manage your groups and obtain group codes

11. Student’s Home Page

12. This is where you type your messages, alerts or assignments

13. This is the timeline where all communication happens

15. Click here to access extra functionality

16. Assignment listed on the timeline Creating an Assignment

17. Edmodo allows teachers and students to upload different file formats: doc,docx, pdf, odt, and rtf.

18. When a student has submitted their assignment, you now can grade it. Simply click, grade, write a comment and post! Clicking on the assignment allows you to see who has submitted and who has not .

19. Teacher created assignments stay on the timeline as permanent reminders .

20. You can post a link or you can insert an embed code . Timeline View Student View.

21. The calendar allows you to see at a glance the work you have set

22. You can add a poll! Short Quiz !

23. Ask your question, create some answers, and choose who to send it to!

25. What are student’s learning?

26. Benefits & Challenges Connections & hardware Learner expectations Retrieving info Teacher fear – lack of ICT training Closed, secure network Enrolment key Immediacy Shared multimedia Use for f2f and/or online classes Paperless classes

27. How Would You Use Edmodo in the Classroom?