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2013 End of Year Best Practices
As the end of the school year draws near, here are some steps to take as you get ready for summer break: Archive Your Groups At the end of the school year we recommend that you archive your groups. Archiving a group saves all of the work and grades for the semester, and the group [...]
This is a guest post from Melissa Butler, a 6th grade Language Arts teacher from South Orange, New Jersey. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Edmodo can transform the traditional chalkboard and a “turn-in-basket-classroom” into a digital, paperless atmosphere. Making the Decision to go Paperless I currently teach 6th-grade Language Arts [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Creating a Paperless Classroom With Edmodo Quizzes & Assignments
This is a guest post by Kelley Taylor, a 6th grade teacher at Christ the King School in Lexington, KY. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Connect with Kelley on Edmodo or follow her @kelley1221 Background I teach sixth grade language arts and religion at a Catholic school in Lexington, [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Edmodo Teachers Can Save 160 Million Pieces of Paper This Earth Week
Last month we polled teachers on Edmodo to find out how much paper you think you and your students go through per week and found that about half of teachers who use Edmodo still say they use at least 100 sheets of paper per week. If 1.6 million Edmodo teachers who on average use at least 100 sheets [...]
5 Effective Conversation Starters for Online Discussions
This is a guest post by Jill Rooney, Ph.D, a history professor at MassBay Community College. Jill also authors The Open Academic, a blog focused on student learning, online education, and higher education policy. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Connect with Jill on Edmodo or follow her on Twitter @JillRooney2 There’s [...]
6 Activities to Celebrate National Poetry Month
Next week marks the beginning of National Poetry Month and we’ve searched the Edmodo Communities for fun activities you can try in your classroom to celebrate. Try one of the ideas shared below during the month of April, or leave a comment below telling us about your favorite poetry-related activity. Poetry Jam - Shared by Mrs. Speck I have [...]
Celebrate Women’s History Month With These 4 Teaching Resources
March is Women’s History Month. To celebrate, we’ve pulled together a few resources shared by Edmodo educators that you can use to help engage students around the important contributions of women in our history. If you have any resources or apps you’d like to share, post a comment below, or share in one of the Edmodo [...]
Using Google Hangouts and Edmodo to Engage Students
This is a guest post by Justin Talmadge, Technology Integration Specialist at Snoqualmie Valley School District. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Connect with Justin on Edmodo, follow him at @mrtalmadge or visit his blog. As an Instructional Technology Specialist working primarily with teachers, I am always looking at new [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Using StoryWorks and Edmodo for Debate and Persuasive Writing
This is a guest post from Lindsey Fuller, a 6th grade Elementary School Teacher in Decatur, Illinois. The full version of her post can be found on her blog at 6thgradetales.com. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Connect with Lindsey on Edmodo or follow her @linlin8! My students really resist writing. Any kind [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Elissa Malespina Created a “Compliments Group” to Boost Student Self-Esteem
This is a guest post by Elissa Malespina, a Librarian at South Orange Middle School in South Orange, New Jersey. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Connect with Elisssa on Edmodo or follow her at @SOMSlibrary Middle School is a time when kids feel vulnerable and are trying [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Creating an International Book Club With Edmodo
This is a guest post from Sandy Brand, Library Media Specialist at Sparkman Middle School in Toney, Alabama. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Connect with Sandy on Edmodo or follow her at @SandyJBrand! Connecting Students in Alabama and France One of the things I love to do is to [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Flip Your Classroom With the Edmodo Scavenger Hunt
This is a guest post from Melissa Butler, a 6th grade Language Arts teacher from South Orange, New Jersey. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. I currently teach in a “brand new” 1:1 learning environment and Edmodo has undoubtedly enhanced both the teaching and learning experiences in my classroom. Flip [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Edmodo How-to: Managing Notifications
Notifications are a great way to keep a pulse on conversations happening in your Edmodo Groups. Here’s a quick guide on how to enable (or disable) notifications: Managing Notifications by Type (Posts, Replies, Direct Messages, Alerts) Select the “Account” drop-down arrow on your Edmodo toolbar. Click the “Settings” option in the drop-down menu. Select the “Email and Text Updates” [...]
Using Edmodo Quizzes for Personalized Learning
This is a guest post from Sharon Casadei, a 7th grade teacher in North Wales, Pennsylvania. The full version of her post can be found on her blog at Pact10Flip.wordpress.com. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. I am not a fan of the “math maintenance” in the traditional, “count as a [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Celebrate Digital Learning Day! 3 Ways to Participate with Edmodo
Digital Learning Day is dedicated to celebrating teachers and shining a spotlight on technology use in classrooms across the country. Mark your calendars, this year it’s being celebrated on February 6, 2013. As an Edmodo educator, you’re doing great things with technology. Digital Learning Day is a great occasion to have that work recognized by sharing [...]
Activities & Tips • News & Events
Making Global Connections: The Edmodo Pen Pal Project
This is a guest post from Tina Schmidt, a 3rd grade teacher at St. Ignatius of Antioch in Yardley, Pennsylvania. This post can also be found on her blog at tschmidt.edublogs.org. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Edmodo is an excellent platform for creating connections between classrooms in different parts [...]
Differentiating Homework Using Edmodo
This is a guest post from Jimmy Sapia, a 4th grade teacher at Springdale Elementary School in Stamford, Connecticut. The full version of his post can be found on his blog at mrsapia.wordpress.com. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Edmodo is a tool that transformed how my classroom operates. While I use [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Edmodo Apps for MLK Day and Black History Month
On Monday, many classrooms around the U.S. will be commemorating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. We’ve pulled together a great list of Edmodo Apps to help engage students around the influential Dr. King, as well as apps you can use for Black History Month. If you have any resources or apps you’d like to share, [...]
Activities & Tips • Edmodo Apps
Edmodo How-to: Scheduling Posts
With the latest version of Edmodo we rolled out a new feature that you may not have seen – the ability to schedule a post! This highly requested feature enables you to create assignments, quizzes, polls, alerts or notes ahead of time, and select a specific time when you want them posted to your group. [...]
Top 20 Shared Resources and Tools of 2012
Edmodo Communities are a great place to connect with other educators to share resources and best practices. Leveraging your network on Edmodo enables you to surface the best resources to meet the needs of your classroom. With the year coming to an end, we took at look at the top 20 tools and resources that [...]
Activities & Tips • Communities
Share Your Holiday Activities and Resources
The holidays are just around the corner and the Edmodo Communities are buzzing with activities and resources! Check out some of the great ideas we found and visit the communities to see more: Holiday Storyboard Project - Students make a storyboard of a classic children’s picture book on poster (could also use technology instead of poster [...]
Students as Screencasters: Flipping the Professional Development Model
This is a guest post from Rob Zdrojewski, Technology Education Teacher and Director of the Amherst Tech TV Program at Amherst Middle School. The post was originally published on his blog at robztraining.com. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, send an email to ideas@edmodo.com. I love solving real-life technology problems with my students. There’s nothing [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
How to Share a Field Trip With Edmodo
This is a guest post by Nancy Carroll, grade 4 teacher at Boyden School in Walpole, Massachusetts. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, send an email to ideas@edmodo.com. While on Twitter one evening I mentioned to a fellow fourth grade teacher that my class was traveling to Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, MA to learn [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Share Your Thanksgiving Activities and Resources
Next week is Thanksgiving in the U.S. and many educators are looking for resources and activities to engage students. We wanted to share a few great Thanksgiving activities and resources we found in the Edmodo Communities: Lisa Siegfried, 7th & 8th Grade Language Arts teacher, shared the following activity: “We do a Thanksgiving project where [...]
Activities & Tips • Communities
Share Your Digital Citizenship Story, Get a Free Poster!
UPDATE: This promotion ended on 12/4/12. Posters are no longer available. Last month, in partnership with Common Sense Media, we announced a new resource for educators, the “Digital Citizenship Starter Kit.” The kit included a series of activities and lessons designed to introduce digital citizenship concepts right in Edmodo and are based on Common Sense Media’s free [...]
Activities & Tips • Communities
Election 2012: 12 Questions to Engage Students in the Debate
The final presidential debate takes place on Monday and today we’ve got 12 sample questions you can ask your students before the debate! Choose one or more of the following questions and post them in your Edmodo group for students to respond to. If you have additional ideas to share, or you want to access more [...]
Activities & Tips • Communities • Students
Election 2012: Debate Activities for all Subject Areas
The presidential debates start this Wednesday, October 3, and we’ve pulled together activities for each subject area to help you engage students. All activities and resources are listed in our Election Insights Community, with a few samples highlighted below. Join the community and view the “Collection” area for additional resources. Please share your favorites as well. [...]
Activities & Tips • Communities • Students
5 Tips for Parents Getting Started with Edmodo
Parent accounts are a great way for parents to observe and stay up to date with their child’s Edmodo activities. With more and more parents signing up for Edmodo, we wanted to provide additional information and tips on how to get started, as well as our most frequently asked questions from parents. 5 Tips to Help [...]
Election 2012: 3 Ways to Engage Students through Edmodo
Edmodo is a great platform to engage your students in this year’s electoral process. Take advantage of the following features to help you integrate election-related activities: 1. Polls Use the Edmodo polling feature to gauge your students on select topics. Sample polling questions include: Which issue do you think is the most important for this [...]
Activities & Tips • Communities • Students
Download the Digital Citizenship Starter Kit from Edmodo & Common Sense Media
Today, Edmodo is excited to announce a partnership with Common Sense Media, a national non-profit dedicated to helping kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology. As part of our partnership, we have created a new resource for educators, the “Digital Citizenship Starter Kit,” which includes a series of activities and lessons designed to [...]
Activities & Tips • Communities
5 Edmodo Activities for the First Day of School
As you head back to school and get your students set up on Edmodo, consider trying one of the following activities your first day of class: One Thing I Want to Learn This Year: On the first day of school, post a question on Edmodo as homework. Ask them to respond to the whole class with [...]
August is back to school month here in the U.S. and to help you prepare, we’ve put together a checklist of all the resources you’ll need to get your classroom started with Edmodo: If you’re new to Edmodo, sign up for one of our Intro to Edmodo webinars or watch a recorded version on your own [...]
Back-to-School Subdomain Best Practices
Edmodo subdomains are a great way to create a community for all the educators in a school or district, as well as provide additional management and analytics features for administrators. If you have a subdomain already in place, now is a great time to make sure you are following best practices for back-to-school: Identify and [...]
Activities & Tips • Schools & Districts
Digital Citizenship Poster Now Available in 6 Languages
Last month we posted a free digital citizenship poster for our educator community to download. The response we received after posting it was incredible – more than 20,000 downloads in the first week! After publishing the post, many international educators requested a version of the poster in their native language and today we’re please to announce that [...]
8 Ways to Use Edmodo Over the Summer
As the school year ends, many educators are sharing the great ways they plan to use Edmodo over the summer. If you’re looking to stay connected with colleagues and engage students over the summer, here are eight ideas to help you get started, as shared by members of the Edmodo community: 1. Edmodo Summer Camp [...]
How to Organize Your Edmodo Library
The Edmodo Library is a great place to collect resources to use in your classroom. These can be files (of any format), links, videos, images, etc. To help you make the most of your Edmodo Library, here are four tips for organizing your library: Create Folders Folders are an excellent way to organize resources in [...]
3 End of Year Tips and Best Practices
As the school year winds down, we would like to provide you with some tips to help you maintain your account and stay engaged over the summer. Archive groups – Classroom teachers should archive their groups if their students will be moving on to other grades or teachers. This effectively locks the communication stream while maintaining access [...]
Incentivize Students with Badges
Last summer we released student badges, a feature that allows you to incentivize your students and provide recognition for their achievements. Since the release, millions of badges have been awarded in Edmodo! With Spring testing happening in many schools across the U.S., we’ve seen an increase in the number of badges being awarded so we [...]
Shared This Week: Earth Day 2012
Sunday, April 22nd is Earth Day! To help you educate your students about Earth Day and the importance of our planet, we’ve pulled some of the top content shared in Edmodo this past week. Save the World in 60 Seconds! Engage your students with this SAM Animation competition where students are encouraged to create a 60 [...]
How to Use Edmodo Small Groups
Creating “small groups” within your main Edmodo group is a great way to help manage and organize your classroom activities. There are two ways that small groups can be used in Edmodo. We’ve outlined both below and highlighted some example uses for each. We’ve also included a few images in a slideshow at the end [...]
8+ Ideas to Celebrate National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate we’ve gathered some of the poetry projects and ideas being shared by educators in Edmodo. Feel free to share your own ideas in the comments, or post in the Language Arts community. Poet-Tree: Make a bulletin board that has poets and lines of poetry on leaves with a large tree. The heading [...]
Shared This Week: ‘The Hunger Games’ Edition
For the thousands of Edmodo educators who are teaching The Hunger Games in school (and, from the looks of it, standing in line at the theater) we thought we’d share a few of the top Hunger Games resources that have been shared in Edmodo in the past week. Feel free to suggest your own ideas [...]
Join Your School or District Edmodo Community
Did you know your school or district may have its own Edmodo community? Joining your community by logging in through your school or district subdomain (e.g. yourdistrictname.edmodo.com) is a critical best practice for using Edmodo in the classroom and will allow you to easily collaborate with other teachers in your school or district. In addition, [...]
Activities & Tips • Communities
How to Organize Group Posts with Tags
Did you know you can create your own set of personalized tags to organize and sort all of your posts? This is especially useful for regular activities or projects that you want to be able to easily access as the year or semester progresses. For example, if your students posted their “science project” to the entire group, [...]
Black History Month: Shared Content from the Communities
In observance of Black History Month, many of our publishing partners have been sharing free content in their communities that you can integrate into your classroom activities. Following is some of the top shared content we’ve come across this week. If you have any great resources to share, please post in the Edmodo communities or leave [...]
During holiday break we put out a call asking educators to share one Edmodo mini-lesson with the community. These mini-lessons were meant to be a great way for teachers to engage students and help them get started with Edmodo. Today we’re pleased to showcase our first batch of submissions! You can view them on the [...]
Project Based Learning with Edmodo
A few weeks ago, Dayna Laur from the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) conducted an excellent webinar about using Edmodo to facilitate project based learning. Last week she shared her experiences in a blog post that teachers can use as a blueprint for creating their own PBL lessons. In the post, Dayna describes how she used [...]
A Fun Little Project for Your Holiday: Edmodo Mini-lesson Challenge
Last week, we posted a quick Edmodo mini-lesson that focused on reflecting on 2011 and planning for the year to come. The response from the educator community to these lessons was amazing – teachers all over the world created “Best and Worst of 2011″ and “2012 Resolutions” groups and had a great time discussing the results [...]
Holiday Checklist Day 5: Relax & Reflect
For many of you, today is the last day of school before holiday break, and it’s the final day of our holiday checklist. So what’s left to do before the new year begins? Relax and reflect on all your accomplishments! We know you’ve worked hard, and we’ve enjoyed reading tweets and stories shared in our communities about all the wonderful [...]
Holiday Checklist Day 4: Edmodo Mini-Lessons
Now that your students are signed up, day 4 of our holiday checklist is all about engaging your students in Edmodo. As you’re wrapping up for the holidays, consider using one of these simple Edmodo mini-lessons to help students reflect on what they’ve learned and prepare for the year ahead. Best and Worst of 2011 [...]
Holiday Checklist Day 3: Getting Students Signed Up
Day 3 of our 2012 holiday checklist walks you through how to get your students signed up for Edmodo. Once you’ve organized your groups and resources, follow these steps to get your students on Edmodo: Introduce students to Edmodo by showing them the Edmodo at a Glance video. Help students understand how they can sign [...]
Holiday Checklist Day 2: Organizing Groups and Resources
Day two of our 2012 holiday checklist is all about organizing your new groups and resources. Follow these easy steps to get started: Once you’ve acquainted yourself with Edmodo, you’ll want to get all your groups created. How you decide to name and organize your groups is up to you. Many teachers choose to do [...]
Holiday Checklist: Get Ready for 2012 with Edmodo
As many of you prepare for a holiday break, we want to provide you with helpful ways to get organized and prepared for the New Year. Each day this week we’ll be doing a new blog post that outlines tips on how you can plan for your Edmodo rollout in 2012. Today we begin day [...]
How to Annotate Assignments in Edmodo
Last week we released a new annotation feature that allows teachers to make comments and edits on student assignments. We received a number of questions about how this new feature works, so we’ve created this how-to video to help.
3 Tips for Easy Content Sharing
Over the past couple months, Edmodo has added some features that make it even easier for you to view and share your favorite content. Play View: Don’t have time to download all of the resources in a folder and just want a quick overview of the content? Use Play View to quickly scan the folder’s [...]
3 Ways to Recognize Veteran’s Day with Students as shared by the Edmodo Community
Every day, teachers share thousands of different types of digital content with their students and colleagues. For teachers who are recognizing Veteran’s Day or Remembrance Day in class today, consider integrating one of these content items into your lesson. All of these are among the most shared content in Edmodo this week. The History of [...]
Teacher rollout resources are now available in the Help Center! These new resources were created to make your Edmodo rollout easier by providing a sample template for getting your students (and parents) started with Edmodo. The content consists of materials created by the Edmodo team as well as a selection of materials created by educators [...]
Enhancements: Quiz Updates and Resources, Printable Rosters, German language
Last weekend we released our new quiz feature. Throughout the week we’ve received tons of great feedback on what you love about quizzes and how we can enhance this new feature. Today we’re pleased to announce that based on the suggestions received, we’ve implemented the following updates to quizzes: Preview quiz: Before you assign a [...]
4 Ways to Use Edmodo for Mobile Learning
Did you know that Edmodo is accessible from any mobile device with Internet capabilities? We also have free apps for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices! If your student’s have access to a mobile device, here are a few ideas for how you can integrate Edmodo into your mobile learning initiatives: 1. Bring Edmodo [...]
4 Edmodo Best Practices Every Teacher Should Follow
To ensure safe and secure usage of Edmodo in your classroom, be sure to follow these four best practices when managing your Edmodo groups: 1. Do not post group codes publicly When inviting your students to join your Edmodo group, be sure to distribute group codes in class or via a private channel. Distributing codes via [...]
Edmodo Back to School: 9 Tips For Online Safety
As you prepare for the new school year, follow these best practices to ensure safe and secure usage of Edmodo in your classroom, school and district. 1. Set up a school or district subdomain Having a subdomain allows all communication within your school or district to be viewed by administrators, providing full disclosure for teachers [...]
New to Edmodo? Share your experience! Call for Featured Bloggers
If you are a classroom teacher who is planning to get started using Edmodo in the classroom this fall and are interested in blogging about it once a week – this is your chance! We are looking for one to three bloggers, across all subjects and grades, who are willing to put themselves out there [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Back-to-School Administrator Checklist
With the new school year about to get under way, many schools and districts are just getting started with their own Edmodo subdomain. Even if your school or district has had a subdomain for some time, it is important for administrators to make sure that all their information and settings are correct, especially since we have [...]
Activities & Tips • Schools & Districts
Back to School with Edmodo: 5 Steps to Getting Started
Looking to integrate Edmodo into your classroom curriculum this year? Here are 5 steps to help you get started: 1. Sign up If you don’t already have an Edmodo account, visit Edmodo.com and sign up. Registration is free and takes less than a minute! 2. Adjust your settings and notifications Once you’ve created your account, visit [...]
Parent Accounts: A Quick Refresher
Parent accounts are a great way to keep your students’ parents informed of classroom activities, assignments, grades and school events. The registration process for parents is similar to student registration, with one additional security measure – each parent will need their own unique parent code to register. This is to ensure that parents can only [...]
Add and Share Content With The Edmodo Bookmarklet
Up until now, you had to be within Edmodo to add something to your library. This meant that you had to copy and paste the URL to a great resource into the Edmodo post bubble, or directly into your library, to share it with your students or colleagues. Not anymore. If you want to add something [...]
Ideas for Using Edmodo: Add yours!
The blogis on a brief summer break this week…just popping in with a quick post:) ** Have you seen this Google Doc that Shannon Miller started a couple of weeks ago? It’s a great source of inspiration for those of you who may be getting started using Edmodo, so we thought it was worth sharing again. [...]
A Bright Idea for Staying Connected over the Summer
The penultimate post on Web 2.0 from Bret! ** I can’t believe next week will be our last week to post-time flies when you’re having fun and this has been a blast. Thanks to those of you who’ve kept up with my rambling the past weeks, I appreciate the attention, however undeserved it may be. Today [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
You Don’t Want to Miss These Three AMAZING Edmodo Resources
Voice of the Library with Shannon ** Sometimes I am amazed at how many new resources come to us over the week through our social networks, connections and other resources. Now, more than ever, we can learn each and every day through these different avenues and bring amazing ideas and resources back to our students, other [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
Ideas for Using Edmodo….Let’s Create a List Together!
Voice of the Library with Shannon Yesterday was the end of the school year for Van Meter. The seniors already graduated and are onto the next chapter in their lives. The kids at school were happy and excited as they talked about their summer plans. They took photos with their friends throughout the day, signed [...]
Activities & Tips • Teacher Stories
3 Steps to Creating Your Personal Learning Network (PLN)
Your PLN is the network of educators and colleagues you connect with online to share resources, ideas and experiences. Creating a strong PLN takes time and focus but is a critical step for professional growth. The first steps to creating a PLN on Edmodo are easy – and will get you on your way to [...]
Quick Tip: Managing Changes to Your Groups
To maintain the security of your group on Edmodo if students have left the class or your group code has been shared, be sure to change the group code for your room to prevent non-group members from joining. (Hint: When initially setting up your group, we recommend that you reset your group code immediately after [...]
In addition to sharing links, as we reviewed last week, educators are using Edmodo to share curriculum related content. This morning we took a look at the types of content that is being shared the most – thought you might be interested in our findings: 1. Mini-lessons: Most of the content that is shared [...]
Top 10 Shared Sites of the Week
Sharing of content has always been an important feature of Edmodo. From how-to YouTube videos to Glogs or Pixton comics featuring the creative talents of students, embedding media is one of the ways teachers and students use Edmodo on a daily basis to share and collaborate. The recent addition of the Engagement number on each [...]
Want to share a bunch of documents and resources quickly? Use an Edmodo group code.
One of the easiest ways to share all of the documents and resources with a group, big or small, is to use the library in Edmodo. Instead of passing around a usb drive, sharing a folder on your school server, or typing in each email address in Google Docs to share the resources that your [...]
Power search in your Edmodo Library
So you have a huge amount of files, links, videos, and resources collected in your Edmodo library. You have been collecting them from your class groups and from your connections. You have created folders and shared them with your students and your colleagues. You have even shared some of your amazing resources in the Edmodo content [...]
More Inspiration: 7 brand new ideas from teachers
We admit, this is starting to get a little crazy — every time we ask for ways you use Edmodo in the classroom, we receive new and fresh ideas — seems like you never run out of new ways to use it! Here are a few more creative ideas from some of our educators: Pen [...]
4 Ways to Stay Connected with Edmodo in 2011
Happy New Year! Welcome back – hopefully you are energized, refreshed and recharged after the holiday break. We are – and we’re looking forward a very busy and productive 2011. We have a number of new features in store, announcements to make, and a lot of interesting events and professional development opportunities on the [...]
Holiday Homework: 5 Tools for launching Edmodo in January
On behalf of our entire team, we’d like to wish everyone in the Edmodo family around the world a happy holiday season and our best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy New Year. We can’t wait to see what 2011 brings! On that note (and because I am a former teacher who absolutely [...]
I love finding examples of teachers “who get it”. The teachers who, when you learn that your child is going to be in their class next year, cause you to breathe an audible sigh of relief – because you know the year will be filled with breathless stories of new projects, great adventures, and [...]
Have you scheduled an Edmodo Meetup yet?
Edmodo meetups are informal gatherings organized by users, for users. They are a great way to meet fellow Edmodo educators in real life, exchange ideas, ask questions, give answers, or simply meet other educators working with Edmodo in your local area. To participate, simply create an Edmodo Meetup in your area & invite your friends [...]
Activities & Tips • Schools & Districts
Great resources for Spanish Speaking Edmodo Users
Aproximately 25% of all posts in Edmodo that are made public are written in Spanish. These posts are from around the world and right next door. The users making these posts are supporting their students and schools with videos on how to sign up for Edmodo, documents to send home to parents, and even a [...]
Get the most out of Edmodo: Publish great work for the world to see!
So much of what goes on in the classroom is lost in the changing of classes or planning for tomorrow’s lesson. The great conversations or outstanding student work disappears as soon as those students walk out the door. When parents ask about what happened at school, they rarely get the fullness of engagement or achievement that is [...]
We asked, you answered! 15 more brilliant ways to use Edmodo
To say we were overwhelmed with the response to last week’s “7 Brilliant Ways to Use Edmodo” blog post would be a huge understatement. Soon after we posted it, ideas and suggestions were flying in from every direction! It’s clear that educators are passionate about using Edmodo in the classroom and we love your creativity in [...]
Edmodo Tip: Ask Questions of your Teacher Connections
One of the best reasons for creating a social network of teachers is to share resources and bounce ideas off of one another. By connecting with teachers on Edmodo, you can create just the kind of network you would like whether that is based upon a common subject area, geography or a shared interest in [...]
7 Brilliant Ways to use Edmodo that will Blow. Your. Mind.
Ok, maybe we’re exaggerating. But they are pretty fun ideas:) Following are unique ways to use Edmodo that go beyond the basic features. Science Fair Exhibition Hall: Create a “Science Fair” group and send everyone in the school the group code so they can view powerpoint, glogster, video summaries of student science projects. A great [...]
Poetry can be a meaningful building block to literacy and critical for helping students learn to express their emotions and ideas. Many teachers, however, find themselves stumped when it comes to tapping into student creativity. Try using Edmodo as a platform for a running poetry slam. Starting with a one-line prompt, ask students to each [...]
Rock the Vote: 3 Ways to Use Edmodo on Election Day
Helping students understand the importance of participating in the election process, no matter what their age, is an on-going challenge in the classroom. Here are a few ideas for how to use Edmodo to help engage students in this week’s election process: Conduct a Mock Election: Set up a quick poll to allow students to [...]
How-To change your Edmodo Group code
Up until now, if any of your codes for your Edmodo groups got out, you couldn’t do much short of contacting us and manually changing the code for your group. Now you can change the group code you hand out to students yourself. You can use this to lock out any new group members once [...]
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