I explain Edmodo to my students the following way: it's basically educational Facebook. It looks very similar to Facebook, but the teacher controls what's on it and what's not. The teacher can post assignments, message, alerts/reminders, or polls.
What you, as a teacher, would need to do is create a teacher account. From there you create groups, such as "English 2 Period 3" or simply "Period 3." Once you create a group (which you usually sort by class), then you'll get a group code. This is what you give to your students so they can join your group.
The students will first have to create an account. Make sure the information they use is valid. A helpful hint, I told my students to use FirstnameMiddleinitialLastname. That way, it was easy for them to remember. In any case, I have a tech card (a note card) where the students put their user names and passwords. I keep it, so if they need to look at it, I've got the information for them.
Once the students have their accounts they must "Join" a group. That's when you give them the code. These are the basic first steps to setting up Edmodo!
I have learned some about Edmodo and how a high school English teacher in my district is using it. I feel it is wonderful tool. Do you have students work on assignments at home over edmodo? If so have you ran into the problem of a student not having computer/internet acess at home? (We have high poverty rate here and think that may be an issue here)
ReplyDeleteWe tend to allow students to have enough class time to work on assignments, mostly for monitoring purposes. We have students who do not have internet access at home. If they complete a poll, for example, or a short assignment outside of school, we preach responsibility: the students can stay after, come in before school, complete the homework during study hall, go to the local library, or to a friend's house with internet access. However, the assignments we have them do outside of class, if ever, are quite short, so it won't take them much time. That's the best solution to that issue that our staff came up with. I hope that helps!!
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