Edmodo

Edmodo is a way of bring the classroom to the students' location. With Edmodo teachers can make available to students essential resources, polls for students, websites for students to look out, and assessments. Edmodo is designed to look like Facebook. Students are able to collaborate with each other and the teacher in real time.

To use Edmodo, a teacher simply has to sign up for the free service. From here, teachers can create their class. Once the class is created, students can add themselves to a class by simply typing in a code into Edmodo. Once the class is created, teachers can start adding content and assessing students.

In my personal life, I find little need for this application. For my future teaching career, this could be very beneficial. This website has been perfected as a classroom tool. I like that this allows for whole class collaboration. I would love to see my students using it as a tool for homework help. Students could use this site to work through a problem together and a teacher can monitor. All students, even the shy students, will have more of an opportunity to share their ideas with others. This could also be a great tool for assessment. Edmodo has this feature called "Snapshot". Using this tool, teachers can put in a common core standard that was covered, and Edmodo will instantly create a quiz for students for that standard. Overall, I was pleased with Edmodo and I could easily see how it could be implemented into a classroom.