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Promoting Student
Collaboration with Edmodo
A Social Network with a Purpose
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What is a Social Network?
A social networking service is an online
service, platform, or site that focuses
on building and reflecting of socialnetworks or social relations among
people, who, for example, share
interests and/or activities.
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Are you familiar with any of
these Social Networks?
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Why use a Social Network?
You can connect withfriends, classmates,teachers and co-workers
You can have live,
remote discussions Provides a platform for
working togetherwithout being together
Provides a platform for
sharing information andknowledge (both writtenand visual images)
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Questions to think about
Could a social network platform
alleviate lack of student involvement?
Can a social network encourage moreparticipation?
Can students transfer the use of social
websites from use in a social practiceto that of an educational practice in a
positive manner?
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Problem-based Scenario
Many students live in situations thatprohibit them from having access to fellow
classmates outside the classroom setting.
This prevents collaboration on classprojects and other assignments.
To prevent a faction of students frombeing excluded, the teacher may eliminate
the assignment completely
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Isolated but Connected
While most students are isolated
(rurally), 80% of the students polled do
have online access via the Internet or aSmart phone
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What does the research say?
Social platforms gave the students a life-
like curriculum (Beane 2006, p. 10)
Learners have turned to online distance
learning as a reliable alternative to face-to-
face education (Brady, Holcomb, & Smith,
2010).
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What does research say?
Social networking sites (SNS) have the
potential to facilitate interaction,
communication, collaboration, and as a
result have been prominently featured in
discussions centering on the use of
technology to support and amplify
educational endeavors (Greenhow,Robelia, & Hughes, 2009; Veletsianos, in
press).
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If students use social networks fluently,
why not bring it into the classroom?
Facebook has 400+ million active users
Twitter has 24+ million unique visitors per month,with 500 million tweets per day.
The global average time spent per person on socialnetworking sites is now nearly five and half hoursper month
Edmodo has 6.4 million registered teachers andstudents
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Can Edmodo be a learning tool?
If students apply the social
networking skills that they have
acquired on Facebook, Twitter, andMySpace to Edmodo for educational
purposes and communication, the
answer is YES!
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Getting Started Open a new browser window, type in address
www.edmodo.com and hit enter
After the link to the Edmodo site appears, click on it, this is the
next screen you will see.
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Click on Im a Teacher
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Account Creation
Enter information and click sign up
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The next screen will welcome you to
Edmodo
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You may now edit your profile
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Ways you may edit your profile
Adding a personal picture
Writing a brief description of yourself
Selecting the school where you work
Join a community based on yoursubject area
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Why should you create a group?
Organize students by class period orsubject matter
Easier to access and view created assignmentsfor a particular subject or class
Easier to do a grade book if students are grouped
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Create a Group
After creating your account, you will want to
create a group
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Group Code Issued
After group code is given, you will give code
to all students that you want to join that
particular group
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By clicking on a particular group, you may
view only those students who have joined
that group
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By clicking on a particular group,
you may
View only those students in that
group
You can do a grade book for that
particular group
You can send messages just for thatgroup
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Nextstudents must create accounts
In order to keep abreast of classroom
assignments and activities, they must have their
own account
To communicate with each other and the
teacher, students must have their own account
To collaborate with each other and the teacher,
students must have their own account
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Student Account Creation
Click on Im a Student
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After clicking Im a Student, the Student
Sign Up box will appear
Students must have a group code from one of their
teachers to initially join-their teacher will supply the
code
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Joining a teachers group
Students will enter the group code of the particularteachers group (the teacher must give the code to the
student). Then, a username and password must be
entered. An email address is optional.
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After students have joined, what now?
You can create an assignment to post on thegroup page for them to complete
You can assign one that is in the Edmodo library
You can upload a video for them to watch andcritique or comment on the content
You can refer them to Digital Resources forpractice on a concept
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Assignment Creation
Click on Assignment and enter the appropriate
information
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Uploading Images and VideosClick on Library and then select the image or video from your
personal material and upload
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After uploading, share the image or
video with a group
They may use it as a reference tool
They may use it as a discussion starter
It may just be something that you findinteresting that you want to share with
them
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Digital Content Available
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How to use digital content?
Content is available for all subject areas(teacher and student resources)
You may link it to your personal library foreasy accessibility
Students may access digital content to playgames or do practice exercises for subjectmatter
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Example of Digital Content for
Biology
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After clicking on Khan, you may choose
content-below is an instructional video
clip of Mitosis
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After locating the video, you may
Save it in your library for future use
Upload it to a group page for them to view
at a later time and ask questions about or
answer questions about
Post it for students to use as a reference
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Online Communities are available for
each subject area
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Why connect to a community?
Build a professional learning communitythrough networking
Build relationships outside of yourbuilding to increase professionalawareness
Share content knowledge with otherprofessionals
After clicking on Language Arts on the
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After clicking on Language Arts on the
online community page, it will take
you to this page
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On the Language Arts page, you
can
Share a resource
Ask questions of fellow professionals
Reply to fellow professionals
On Edmodo help is always available
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On Edmodo, help is always available
The three areas I used most are Support
Community, Mini-Lessons and Webinars
f h
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Features of the Support
Community
Offers support 24 hours a day
Allows you to post any questionrelating to Edmodo here
Should answer you within an hour
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Features of the Mini-Lessons page
A link to a library full of short lessons that
can be used as is or altered to fit your
needs
Can be used as unit activators
A short activity to engage your students in
a topic
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Samples of Mini-Lessons
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WebinarsYou may register for free upcoming webinars or view
archived webinars with a click of your mouse
Th t f lid ill t t
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The next four slides illustrate an
assignment I created
This assignment was designed to:
Incorporate student collaboration
Incorporate student communication
Promote critical/deeper thinking
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Objectives
Create a student Edmodo account
Explain in writing a test taking strategy that has been
successful for you to your fellow classmates and discuss
why it helps you
Initiate dialogue with fellow classmates by making
comments on the strategies that they have posted
NETS Standards
Students use digital media and environments to
communicate and work collaboratively
Students understand and use technology systems
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Test Taking Strategy Assignment
S d l b li ki l
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Students reply by clicking on reply
or turn in
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Benefits of Edmodo to Teachers
Allows for open communication with students
Encourages questioning and dialogue between
students and teacher
Allows for students to ask questions who would
normally be apprehensive in an open classroom
to ask questions
Allows for classrooms across the world to link
together based on subject area
S d d h h 2 h
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Students and teachers have 24 hour
access with Internet and Smart phones
bl h
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Possible Teacher Questions
How might you use Edmodo in your classroom?
May I assist you in designing some ways to use
Edmodo in your class?
Do you think that dialogue between the students and
teacher can contribute to deeper, critical thinking?
Would the use of this Edmodo alleviate some of thealienation that some students feel by often being left
out of group work that takes place outside the
classroom?
I am connected to most all colleagues
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I am connected to most all colleagues
in my buildingare you connected to
yours by a network other than email?
Will you let Edmodo connect you to
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Will you let Edmodo connect you toyour students, colleagues and the
World?
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References
Casey, G., Evans, T. (2011). Designing for learning: Online social
networks as a classroom environment. International
Review of Research in Open & Distance Learning, 12 (7),
1-26.
Greenhow, C. (2011). Online social networks and learning. On
The Horizon, 19 (1), 4-12.
Veletsianso, G., Navarrete, C.C., (2012). Online social networksas formal learning environments: Learner experiences
and activities. The International Review of Research in
Open and Distance Learning, 13 (1), 144-166.
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