We know there were a number of you who were interested in participating, but couldn’t make it, and many of you who could only attend for part of the day.  Today we’d like to share with everyone the official EdmodoCon Toolkit and a link to the recorded sessions.

Educator Toolkit

One of our goals with EdmodoCon was to give teachers inspiration for using Edmodo in the classroom this year. To help achieve this, our presenters have helped us assemble an Educator Toolkit that is now available via the EdmodoCon Group.  You can find all of the toolkit materials, as well as all the presentations from EdmodoCon in the shared folder titled “EdmodoCon 2011″. (Note: If you are not a member of the EdmodoCon group, but would like access, please send a request.)

EdmodoCon Recording

Many of you have been anticipating the EdmodoCon recording and we’re please to let you know it is now available.  At this time, it is only available in one long recorded block, so it will take a few minutes or more to open, depending on your Internet connection (you’ll see a “buffering” message until it caches and plays).  If you’d like to see the chat session, be sure to select the chat icon in the upper right corner of the page.

UPDATE: The sessions are now available in individual videos. View the EdmodoCon archives.

Here is a time table that will help you navigate to specific sessions:

Mobile Learning

• Volusia County: A District’s Perspective (Mark Leary): 25:00
• Volusia County Showcase (Robert Miller): 48:11
• Edmodo In Action- Mobile Apps (Betsy Whalen): 1:34:40

Teaching Methods

• Project Based Learning (Liz Castillo): 1:55:43
• KIPP Action Research (Kristen Sigler, KIPP Adelante): 2:26:47
• KIPP Action Research (Kuanza Johnson- KIPP Tulsa): 2:35:00
• KIPP Action Research (Kristen Sigler- TEAM Charter Schools): 2:40:20

Keynote Presentation- The Road Ahead (Nic Borg & Jason Barros): 2:56:24

Community Engagement- Parents, Students and Admins (Peter McAsh): 3:56:09

School & District Showcase, Moderated by Andy McKiel; 4:56:28

• Clark County Schools, Carole Moreo & Sara Stewart: 5:00:20
• Houston ISD, Dan Greenberg: 5:26:22
• Douglas County Schools, Kiffany Lychock & Liz Walhof: 5:36:12
• Edmodo In Action- Claiming Your School/District Subdomain (John Hermansen): 5:49:11

The Digital Playground

• Game Based Learning (Hyle Daley): 6:04:46
• Engaging Middle School Students with Video (Rob Zdrojewski): 6:40:05
• English Language Learners (Ana Maria Menezes): 7:10:15
• Integrating Digital Tools (Tonya Gilchrist): 7:41:37

Global Connections

• Rock Our World (Carol Anne McGuire): 8:03:15
• A Week In the Life (Theresa Allen): 8:33:25

Edmodo for Primary students- It’s All Elementary (Jennifer Bond): 8:56:00

Wake Up Australia! Aussie Showcase, Moderated by Bianca Hewes: 9:28:10

• Critical Discussions (Jessica Melkman): 9:35:20
• Edmodo- An Extension of the Classroom (Henrietta Miller): 9:55:08
• 1:1 Classroom (Monique Dalli): 10:25:39

Closing Remarks: 10:52:50

Many thanks again to all of you who showed interest in our first global user conference!

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 interact with you and with their child.

The video below provides instructions on how to obtain parent codes. We also have created a Sample Letter you can send parents to invite them to Edmodo.

If you’re already taking advantage of parent accounts on Edmodo, we’d love to hear your ideas on how to make the most of them. Share with us in the comments!

We would like to take this opportunity to show off some of these amazing resources and to point to them within our Help Center. We understand the irony of writing this post in English, so if you would like to see it in a spanish translation you can go to our Google Translate version of this post.

The following guide translation is hosted at Scribd (embedded below), but you can find it in the context of our Help Center here.La Guía Para Emplear EDMODO

We have also collected many Spanish language Edmodo screencasts and presentations and posted them in our Help Center.

Here is one of our favorites:

We appreciate everyone who has taken it upon themselves to craft support materials for Edmodo in their schools and districts. If you have any more materials (Spanish Language or not) that you think belong in our Community Powered Help Center please send an email to ben@edmodo.com.

In this video, Dyane Smokorowski explains how educators throughout Andover school district in Kansas are using Edmodo to engage students in academic social networking and project based learning.   A great example of 21st century learning.

And with that — the Edmodo team would like to wish our educators in the U.S. a happy holiday and take this time to give thanks to every one of our educators around the world for the work you do every day to improve the lives of children. You are our heroes and we are honored to be part of your community.

Happy Thanksgiving!

If you click “Tour” on the homepage we now have a video tour of Edmodo which you can view below.

You can follow us at the following twitter accounts:

• http://twitter.com/edmodo – The official Edmodo Twitter account
• http://twitter.com/zemote – Jeff’s personal Twitter account
• http://twitter.com/nicborg – Nic’s personal Twitter account

If you just want to say hi, @ us and we will get back to you

If your not sure what twitter is, watch the following video to learn more about twitter, what it is, and what it can do for you.

Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.