Typically when people hear the term microblogging, they think of Twitter, Tumblr, or the now defunct Pownce. Edmodo has elements of all of those services along with some extra features designed with students and teachers in mind.
Edmodo is a microblogging system designed specifically for teachers and students. Using Edmodo teachers can create a microblogging network for their classes. Edmodo allows teachers to create a group specifically for their students and exclude those not invited to the group. Edmodo provides teachers with a place to post assignment reminders, build an event calendar, and post messages to the group. Just as with any good microblogging service users can share links, videos, and images.
Watch the video overview of Edmodo below.
Applications for Education
Edmodo could be used for a wide variety of tasks and lessons. Creating an Edmodo group could be a handy way to remind students of assignments and tasks they need to complete. It could also be a forum for open discussion in an online course setting. In a one-to-one computing environment you could post a story starter and have each student add a sentence or paragraph to create a collaboratively written story.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Edmodo - Microblogging for Students
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Thanks for this heads up and ideas. I signed up for edmodo last week, but I'm still not sure how we'll use it in class.
We (teacher librarian and French teacher) have been using Edmodo and loving it. I wrote a brief post about it in December. The teacher finds it a great way to quickly survey the class to see who 'gets it' and which concepts need to be reinforced. We've used twtpoll with it as well. To see my post go to
http://bookminder.blogspot.com/2009/01/ipod-experiment-class-two.html
Our seventh grade house of 80 students and three core teachers have been using Edmodo for two months.
Suggestion: Create a master administrator and then two to three "fake students" and play with Edmodo for 2-3 weeks. We did and it really helped us decide how we were going to use Edmodo with our students.
Implementation: Our first day of Edmodo was an entire class period devoted to allowing students to "sign in" to Edmodo. In addition, we "posted" numerous questions so that students could reply by microblogging.
We allowed students to obtain their own avatar with stipulations that once they chose the picture, they could not change it. This allows us to visually track who is on Edmodo.
We also update the calendar with all of the daily assignments. This is a great way for absent students to acquire the work.
Today...a student obtained his paper which he typed in Edmodo at home. He then copied it to a word document. Asked why? He stated we don't have word at home. Another great use of Edmodo.
My description and implementation...
http://recessduty.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/edmodo/
I just started using this last week with my high school business and computers classes. I have been using to post a debate topic for the week that students are expected to reply to at least twice during the week.
You can check our progress at
http://arbitrarycontemplations.wordpress.com/
Hi,
Indeed Edmodo is a very good platform.
I kindly invite you to take a look at cirip, a microblogging platform specially designed for education - for courses enhancement, or for delivering entire online courses; paper, presentation.
Facilities: * private and public groups; * embed in notes: images, audio and (live) video files, presentations, pdf, doc, xls files; * feeds monitoring; * statistics and visual representations: timeline, network, tagcloud for users and groups; tutorial.
Thanks,
Carmen
Edmodo looks like a perfect solution for a tutor working with several students to allow for interaction at times other than the face-to-face sessions.
I will be following up some ideas that I have for implementing Edmodo and have posted about it at my blog.
Using Edmodo with a closed class group would also be more secure than the teacher who is using Facebook with my grand-daughter's class for an assignment at High School.
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