May 17 2012
Will’s views on Edmodo
I Think Edmodo Will Be gr8 for Digital Leaders
By Will Wrench (LLS)
Create a group: Teachers have the ability to create groups and invite their students to become part of the group. Groups can be created for specific classes, discussions, clubs etc… You can privately invite others to your group by sharing the 6 digit code. A great extra way of creating an additional ‘group’ for the ‘group’ is to create an announcements and special events page, where you can congratulate and celebrate milestones and achievements, such as, birthdays, high marks in a test, sporting events and more.
Check for understanding: With Edmodo’s polling feature, teachers can do a quick check to see where students and DLs are in their understanding. Polls are also great for gathering feedback on topics, assignments, and ideas. Rather asking for a show of hands from the whole group of students or DLs (where we ‘reluctantly’ put up our hand), the polling system lets us do it individually where we aren’t influenced by others around us.
Ask students to attach a file to share their projects and work:
Students can post their projects to the group by attaching a file with their post. Students can share their work and comment back and forth with their teacher, classmates and other DLs. Pupils can give ways to improve the piece of work and can also use ideas from the work (if acknowledged and accepted by the creator). Teachers could pass on worksheets to pupils using this method. This is ideal for DLs when teaching a class new software. DLs can access the help sheet on the specific software so they can use it when they teach. A good example for when we could have used this system is when I created a Prezi help sheet and other DLs required it. If we had Edmodo at the time I could have shared it on that rather than Fronter.