Edmodo is a social networking website for teachers, students, and parents. It allows users to check grades, assignments, and communicate posts. Teachers can assign and grade homework, while students can submit homework and view grades and teacher comments. Edmodo uses an interface similar to Facebook that engages students. It encourages sharing of work and feedback between students and teachers both during and after school. Edmodo provides new learning opportunities by giving students equal access to resources and teacher help from home via computer or smartphone apps.

1. Assessment Task ONE:
EDUC 1715
Digital Artefact: Edmodo
www.edmodo.com
By Nathan Lee & Nick Jorgensen

2. What is Edmodo?
Edmodo is a social networking website for
the use of teachers, students and parents.
Users can check grades, assignments,
and write posts to classmates, teachers,
and parents. Teachers can also post
grades and assign homework to students.
Students can then submit the homework
and view their grade as well as any
comments the teacher may have posted
about their assignment.

3. Edmodo uses an interface that is similar to
the popular social networking site
“facebook” which positively engages
students to use this artefact as most
students already are familiar with how to
use facebook and can log into edmodo
and almost instantly begin to use it in a
productive manner whether they are
posting homework or reading notes that
the teacher has left for them.

4. The positives of edmodo are the easy to use
interface that can be taught quickly by the teacher
to the students and parents, also this artefact
encourages the sharing of work between students
and teachers as things can be posted back and
forth between the two parties. This is an exciting
and new system to be available to students now
as before they would only be able to get feedback
on work at school where using edmodo the
students can get feedback after school hours and
in some cases even during school holidays to
further develop students skills.

5. Edmodo is relevant to the curriculum as it
is a good way students can share work
that they have found useful to other
students and it also gives the teachers are
good way to assess how the students are
travelling in a given subject as they can
view progress made by a student through
the work that they submit, edmodo can be
used effectively to see the consistency of
the students work that they are submitting.

6. New learning oppurtunities are presented
by the use of edmodo as it gives students
an equal chance to get available
resources and help from the teacher even
when they are not at school as they can
access edmodo from there personal
computers at home and even some smart
phones can support an edmodo
application which once again appeals to
many students.

7. In modern day classrooms students level of
concentration is much lower than that of
previous generations. Interactive and
computer based learning has shown to
increase a students ability to concentrate, if
restricted from access to other sites than the
task at hand. Edmodo is a program which
enables students to grasp the belief that
they are being given freedom to a social
network which at the same time primarily
focuses on student learning.

8. Although there are limitations in this
artefact and the most obvious one would
be that edmodo is rendered useless to
students without access to internet which
may seem uncommon but for students
living in rural areas this can be a reality.
Another limitation is that it needs
cooperation from students and parents to
function to its full potential therefore in
some cases edmodo can not be used
correctly.

9. Pedagogy can easily be implemented into
an edmodo based lesson. The teacher
could post pieces of work on their own
profile and instruct the students to log on
and view the task at hand. The positives to
this process include; saving printing off a
sheet of paper for each child. It also allows
the students to interact between each other
and share ideas and their own opinions. The
use of edmodo gives the teacher total
control over the lesson and stops students
from sidetracking.

10. Edomodo’s familiar web layout is no accident, it has been made very similar to
popular social networking site facebook to appeal to the students as most are
already familiar with the layout and design of this social networking website.

11. Edmodo allows the same process of posting updates, pictures, and videos the
same as Facebook does. However the difference being edmodo only allows
education based topics, generally supervised by the teacher to avoid students
from going off on a tangent of their own.

12. Edmodo at a Glance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-KBwriCO-Q
This youtube video gives a 1 minute glance at the style and some of
edmodos important features that make it and a brief overview on how it is
used.

13. After watching the tutorial video and brief
overview on edmodo it is easy to see how
an educational cross social networking site
can be extremely beneficial to not only
students but also teachers and parents as a
way of tracking the students progress with
assigned classwork and tasks.