How Can You Use It with Your Students?
- Think about your content first and the technology second!
- Deliver assignments and notes
- Teach Digital Netiquette.
- Choose to receive text messages when student direct message you as the teacher. Are their questions really burning and need to be answered? Post a direct message. Can they wait until tomorrow? Post them on the wall or ask at school.
- Private microblogging (think Twitter).
- Assign students a task, and have them report findings through the link , embed, and file sharing features.
- Share assignments & rubrics
- Great for parents, students, especially absent students! No more (or less) falling behind.
- Co-teaching anything
- Create a "Recess" group for social chatter.
- Set the parameters for use with your students. Having a place for open conversation can help engage students who are otherwise not engaged. It bridges technology use for them.
- Art
- Pixton (create cartoons)
- Glogster (create image, text, audio, video posters)
- These two tools allow you to post these artifacts directly to the Edmodo library
- Social Studies
- Current Events – uploading by teacher, reading by students, discussion by class
- Backchanneling – discuss video content while video is being viewed
- Have students create “commercials” to summarize or introduce topics
- Pixton (create cartoons) for political events and share directly to Edmodo library
- Mathematics
- Answer questions outside class
- Post video tutorials – check out Khan Academy - http://www.khanacademy.org/
- Deliver detailed explanations on homework with students
- Edmodo supports LaTeX markup. Learn it with this free wikibook
- Science
- Share lab results
- Submit lab reports in a green way! No paper.
- Literature
- Brainstorming ideas on a topic
- Predict events in a book during group read a loud
- Literature Circles – create an Edmodo group for each book discussion
- Poetry Slam or Story Train
