Edmodo is attending the ISTE conference in June. Are you?

If so, join Edmodo’s ISTE 2010 group on Edmodo to connect and communicate with other conference-goers and learn about the great giveaways and fun events we have planned. For current Edmodo members, just click Join in the groups section of your Edmodo home page and enter the group code “ISTE10″. Non-members can sign up for a free teacher account on Edmodo and then follow the same easy steps. We look forward to seeing all of you at ISTE 2010!

May 27, 2010 | Filed Under conferences, general | View Comments

Edmodo é em casa! Agora em Português

So my Portuguese is not very good =) However…

Edmodo is now available in Portuguese (our translator lives in Rio – thanks Joao!) After launching the Spanish version, we received a lot of requests for a Brazilian edition of Edmodo, so here it is. To all of our friends and cohorts South, we hope you like it! All we ask for in return is that you spread the word and help us grow Edmodo throughout Brazil. We have high hopes for Brazil, which is why you were tops on our translation list.

Also, please contact us if you are interested in helping us to support our Brazilian teachers. We would appreciate it – we’re always looking for Edmodo champions across the world to help us help others get the most out of Edmodo.

Now, *very* important: which translation is next? Pirate, Klingon, or Shakespearean? Mmm…We may have to go with French to round out the Western Hemisphere =)

As always, we love to hear from you,
The Edmodo Team

May 13, 2010 | Filed Under general | View Comments

Connect with other teachers

We’ve launched teacher connections! Now you can connect with other teachers to discover resources and share best practices. Here’s a quick guide to help you explore our new features.

Teacher Profiles

Your profile page builds upon the user page already available in the current Edmodo. We’ve added activity streams and the ability to quickly navigate to your connections and publicly available group pages (i.e. your RSS feeds from your classes). From a teacher profile page, you can:

Directly message a connected teacher
Access public group posts
Share helpful online resources
View shared connections, and request new ones
Send messages to all of your connections at once

Here’s the previous version of the user page:

… and here’s the new teacher profile:

Add Connections

Now you can connect to your peers and colleagues in multiple ways. From the home page, we suggest connections to you based on your groups and school. Soon, you will be able to search for your peers and request to be connected.

You can also invite your peers to join Edmodo right from our site via email, Facebook, or Twitter.

Using Your Connections

Now that you’re connected directly with other teachers, you can start sharing materials with each other, create groups based on common interests, and work side by side to develop best practices. You can directly message one another, collaborate on assignments and cross class projects, or intermediate in each other’s classes. You can even post a message to all of your teacher connections, all of your groups, or both!

More to Come

Stay tuned for even more exciting capabilities and opportunities to collaborate and work with one another as we continue to roll out new features designed to ease and enhance your ability to use Edmodo to make your classroom dynamic, engaging, and most importantly, successful.

As always, we love your feedback and suggestions. Please send them to the Edmodo forums.

Thanks!