Learning+through+Edmodo

EDMODO



è WHY YOU MIGHT USE IT
 * What it allows people to do:
 * Absent students
 * Send messages and reminders to students
 * Set up student discussion in real-time – can use in and outside of classroom
 * Post a questions and have students answer
 * Students post their own work – reports, poetry, ideas, etc.
 * Students read and comment on other people’s groups
 * Set up student mini-groups within the class group so they can communicate with the whole group easily online.
 * In a bigger school – communicate with the whole year – all of year 11 advanced for example – saves individual teachers work
 * Find and share resources for all subjects online – download worksheets.
 * Talk with other teachers – connect with other classes in the country or globally
 * Share ideas with teachers and ask others’ for ideas on teaching activities
 * Make ‘friends’ like facebook – called a connection – with other teachers
 * Easy communication between students and teachers
 * Easy to post documents, assignments and activities for students to download any time
 * Student engagement
 * Student confidence
 * Quick and easy immediate feedback on work and ideas
 * Digital citizenship – using social networking in a purposeful, responsible way
 * Meeting kids in their world
 * Less photocopying