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Mike/Email Images of Edmodo notification

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Mike/Email Images of Edmodo notification

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So I have taken a screen shot of what the email looks like in Gmail when Derek sent us the notice of the quizzes. Elonia, I am placing here, so you can pull the image. That is what some of these other boards are for as well. Just a way to get you images.

Derek, I saw the snapsot you created. This is great, a quizz and matching exercise. Is that what Snapshot does?

Finally, I was part of a live seminar this morning on Reinventing Writing by Vicki Davis, and she mentioned something called Twister, which is a walled version of Twitter which integrates with Edmoto. I am going to look at what this does and if we want to show it.

I think we should avoid being a strict "how" to like the presentation Jack showed us, and highlight the tools. Present the 3 different views: Teacher, Student and Parent. And then things like Snapshot and this "Twister", if i can figure out how it works. (I have not mastered Twitter so this doesn't bode well.

Also, I found a site that illustrates a school district using Edmodo, and it seems pretty seamless. Check it out, we could also present a real world example of what could be done with Edmodo in this way even though we do not have access.

http://hmstwister.weebly.com/what-is-edmodo.html

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Not sure if this costs anything, but if we can learn more about it, we maybe can launch this little video? I think only the teacher can create a Snapshot.

We need to figure out how we are going to differentiate our presentation from the one Jack already showed. I am still pouring through this thing, but it really doesn't seem like as a student, I can do much. The video clip is very vague, but enough "flash" for a presentation maybe.

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Create a Snapshot in a minute with our Common Core item bank and see what your students know (and what they don't) in no time.

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So Edmodo works with 3rd party apps. Not exactly sure what that could mean for our purposes, as I never grant authority to anything on my phone or computer. :-) Maybe you guys could think of an example of how this might be handy for teaching? Perhaps the Edmodo accounts could link directly to a blogging (Blogspot or Tumblr) account to do writing.

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So I have logged in as a student and sent you a message Derek. I see Elonia as a classmate but I cannot message her. This is perhaps by design. I created a folder I will use for my ELA journal work, and was able to connect to my Google Drive - which has all my EdU516 stuff in it! Pretty cool.

Does anyone know if we can chat with Derek if he is the teacher, real time? i can see messaging. Maybe we should arrange a time/date for all of us to be connected to see what this looks like in realtime?

Also - When I logged in i saw this:

Wonder what a parent sign on looks like? They are offering a code to give to a parent.

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Hi Derek. I have logged in using the group code. Not sure if I need to be accepted as well, according to Elonia. I see no indication that my account needs approval, but then it doesn't look like I can do much. I guess you are driving the bus, Derek!

Great plan Elonia - Once I can get in I will play around and send you some ideas. Then you can send back PDFs of the site.

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Derek, I just attempted to join your class as a student. Please accept it so that we can check it out some more! So this is what we decided in class: You guys give me some of your key points about the benefits, drawbacks, etc about edmodo.com so I can start putting together the presentation on smart notebook. After Derek adds me to his class for our little trial, I'll take some screen shots and let you know some of my key points. Derek can send some screenshots from the teacher account? I am excited to do this project! I'm so glad to have productive partners... Can't say the same for my summer school job I'm working on right now.... After you start giving me some material, I'll keep you guys updated on what the presentation looks like so far.

Are we okay with this?

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If we want to take a look at this site...it's sort of a classroom meets facebook. Very interesting possibilities. If you want to join my classroom as a student... use code 4922r5 (I'm putting it here so I don't forget) but I will sign on to the site later to show you more. Lot's of choices here...

https://edmo.do/j/yrhz8d

AND... it shares assignments...views, and suggestions between teachers all over the country. Looking at one set of suggestions for a teacher that asked for suggestions on visualizing how sound waves travel. There were 5 responses in the last few hours alone!

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Apologies for not writing sooner...power has been out for the last two days, and everything I've been looking at has been via phone.

I had a chance this morning to look at learni.st "Learnist"... thought the site was pretty great. It really does have a ton of categories, loads of articles, and has a fairly intuitive set up. I looked at a couple different projects in the home decor series...step by step instructions, and each instruction has sub-instructions and articles, in case you need help with that particular step.

There is also a huge selection to choose from...society, games, how to cook, etc... and yes...education!

Definitely looking into a little closer...

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Mike/What I am Looking for in Educator Network                                           (PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!)

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Mike/What I am Looking for in Educator Network                                           (PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR!)

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* Access to real teachers via chat or community

* Communities by topic

* Active communities-recent activity to show vibrant network

* Diverse: I want to see a range of subjects, grades and locations.

* Video tutorials

* Access to online training

* Not any or not a lot of advertising. Must be free!

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I am looking for a place where I can post my lessons and people will check it out and post lessons that they have used that have worked, too. I would like to be able to ask advice about how to handle different situations (classroom management). It would be nice to be able to have something to use with the students, too. I am considering padlet right now for that... From Mike/Great! From what I can tell Elonia, these networks I have posted don;t seem to offer lessons per se, but sites like Read, Write, Think.Org do or Edutopia might, Bbut I did see some out there that do this.

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1) Specific to teaching ELA

2) Has communities all dedicated to teaching various aspects of ELA

3) Large collection of videos regarding various ELA topics

4) Every so often links fail.

5) Academic Exchange call for papers - allows teachers to publish work and have peer reviewed!

6) Learning Library for resources to teach writing

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1) Communities like Ed.Web

2) No webinars

3) Seems fairly active with content

4) Blogs

5) Twitter feed

6) Videos in various language on net use and security on Web.

7) Various forums

8) Education Summit conference videos from around the world.

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1) Webinar schedules and access

2) Blogs

3) Communities with ability to save and find favorite communities.

4) Uses Photobucket (requires registration) to view and share videos). This might be a little more cumbersome.

5) Ability to store contact information and organize using Ed.Web document folder. This can be uploaded from CSV file.

6) Ability to create photo albums

7) Twitter feed.

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edWeb: A professional online community for educators

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edWeb is a free online community for professional educators, offering networking, resource sharing, collaboration, and professional development webinars.

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So I actually downloaded this to my iphone long before this class because it looked interesting. This is NOT a site one would use expressly for the purpose of making contact with other teachers. As an open ended forum, members simply put their material onto boards. The term that is used is CURATED CONTENT.

Think of this as an electronic museum of infinite interests - not necessarily academic - but general in nature. As a network designed to organize and store student information - like an electronic portfolio - this might be really useful in a classroom.

I tried to start a board about what I know and find on the internet about the poetry form Oulipo (found poetry that uses bizarre constraints to limit poetry in an effort to find a found creativity.)

This could be really a good tool for allowing students to help organize a term paper.

I realize this is not the type of social network I was at first considering, something like this would be fun to explore for the purposes of classroom applications. I am sure for Chemistry or ELA we can come up with some other applications. Currently, I am having problems adding boards, but I will figure it out soon.

There is some networking with others, but not necessarily teachers. But this may be a good thing because you might be connecting with artists, scientists etc.

What do you guys think? it could be an alternative to the other sort of "one-stop-shopping" networks.