* 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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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!

Are we okay with this?

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.

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.

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.

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