EDMODO

Edmodo is a free and simple web 2.0 tool. I have decided to write my contribution on it because I first heard of it during my first practicum as my tutor uses it to comunicate with the students and it is also really useful to do online exercises and to ask or share doubts both with the teacher and classmates/students at any time.

Edmodo was founded by Nicolas Borg and Jeff O'Hara, technologists working at separate schools in the Chicago area, as a secure microblogging medium for students and teachers. In 2010 Edmodo launched, "subject" and "publisher" communities, a digital media library, a help center, and a parent accounts for communicating with teachers, parents, and students.

Edmodo is a private micro-blogging platform built for use by teachers and students for use in the classroom.

The problem with traditional web 2.0 tools in a k-12 classroom environment is concerns over privacy of the students. Edmodo has been built with the privacy of students in mind.

Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers also have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students. Edmodo also has a public component built by allowing at the teachers discretion to post any item to a public timeline at the teacher’s discretion.

Edmodo's user interface has been described as similar to Facebook. Using Edmodo, teachers can post grades and assign homework to students. Students can then submit the homework and view their grade. The transmission is fast and paper-less. Teachers eliminate crossposting through the creation of sub-groups within a course. After each course period is completed the teacher closes out the network and creates a new one for the next course.

I hope you find it useful and just in case you find diffucult to use it, there you have the link of a tutorial!!

Jennifer Tirado