Edmodo Name of the Website/Tool: Edmodo The Tags you used to narrow your search: I typed "Ed," as I was going type "Education," and Edmodo came up. The purpose of the tool: My purpose for using Edmodo is to have a centralized location on the internet where I can post videos of myself teaching new lessons. Your experience using it and how it could be useful: This site has been a huge part of my implementation of a successful flipped classroom. This site is an excellent place to post videos for students to watch outside of the classroom. In my flipped classroom, I swap instructional lecture time and homework time. I video tape myself teaching a new lesson and post the video instruction to Edmodo. Students go home at night and watch the new material being taught. When students come in the next day, they are responsible for having watched the video and taken notes. In the classroom, students work on what would have traditionally been assigned as homework. The advantage to this system is that when students get stuck as they are working on their problems I am right there to help. Many students either have parents who do not know how to help or are not around to help. Edmodo is the catalyst that allows the flipped classroom to work. Anything a user would need to know when signing up for the tool:Signup is extremely easy. Just go to Edmodo.com and identify yourself as a teacher. You will have to create a username, password, and group. Once you create a group, you are given a group code. Your students simply sign up by going to Edmodo.com and identifying themselves as students. They then create a username and password and enter the group code of the group you want them to join. Once in the group they will have access to any video or other media that is posted in their group. There is a discussion board, but I do not allow the students to post anything because I am unable to monitor the discussion board at all times and would not want something inappropriate to be posted.
Name of the Website/Tool: Edmodo
The Tags you used to narrow your search: I typed "Ed," as I was going type "Education," and Edmodo came up.
The purpose of the tool: My purpose for using Edmodo is to have a centralized location on the internet where I can post videos of myself teaching new lessons.
Your experience using it and how it could be useful: This site has been a huge part of my implementation of a successful flipped classroom. This site is an excellent place to post videos for students to watch outside of the classroom. In my flipped classroom, I swap instructional lecture time and homework time. I video tape myself teaching a new lesson and post the video instruction to Edmodo. Students go home at night and watch the new material being taught. When students come in the next day, they are responsible for having watched the video and taken notes. In the classroom, students work on what would have traditionally been assigned as homework. The advantage to this system is that when students get stuck as they are working on their problems I am right there to help. Many students either have parents who do not know how to help or are not around to help. Edmodo is the catalyst that allows the flipped classroom to work.
Anything a user would need to know when signing up for the tool: Signup is extremely easy. Just go to Edmodo.com and identify yourself as a teacher. You will have to create a username, password, and group. Once you create a group, you are given a group code. Your students simply sign up by going to Edmodo.com and identifying themselves as students. They then create a username and password and enter the group code of the group you want them to join. Once in the group they will have access to any video or other media that is posted in their group. There is a discussion board, but I do not allow the students to post anything because I am unable to monitor the discussion board at all times and would not want something inappropriate to be posted.