1. Transforming
Teaching and Learning
Edmodo
Roxanne Gibbons
Individual Project
Education 6620
Memorial University of Newfoundland

2. What is edmodo ?
Edmodo
 is a micro blogging platform created by Jeff O'Hara and Nic Borg.
 is an emerging style of communication. It allows equality in
communication among students.
 provides a safe way to communicate with students and other faculty
members outside the classroom using the internet.
 enables one to one, small group and class or larger group
communication.

3. Edmodo
Edmodo is a free, secure, social learning
platform for teachers, students, parents,
and schools.
Teachers and students can store and
share all forms of digital content like
blogs, links, pictures, video, documents,
presentations, and more.
Edmodo provides teachers and students
with an easy way to post events, alerts,
classroom materials, files, and videos.
They can also access homework
assignments, quizzes, grades, polls and
school notices.

4. Edmodo and Social Communities
 Edmodo is an example of how knowledge is constructed and shared
in the real world through social and professional online communities.
It is a good introduction to how these communities operate and how
to use them.
 Edmodo is developed for an educational setting which gives it an
edge over other social networks. It also contains resources
regarding digital citizenship, and professional development support .
 Some examples of online social communities are facebook, twitter
and myspace. Some professional online communities include
Proteacher, Edutopia, Teachnology and Smart Tech.

5. What Program?
or or
• Open • Open
• No teacher control • No teacher control
• Teacher views all.
• Teacher communicates with texts, images,
links or attachments.
• “It is like a Twitter for Education”
• All Google Docs can be uploaded to the library

6. Edmodo set up is very similar to Facebook. As the teacher
you have complete control over your group members’
blogging.
vs.
• Social network • Social network
• Simple • Simple
• Handles events • Handles events
• Shares photos and videos • Shares photos and videos
• Handles grades • No grading
• Teacher controlled • No teacher control
• Private and education-oriented • Public and unregulated
• Known audience • Unknown audience

7. Ideas for Edmodo
 Edmodo can be used by students at home, school, library and
youth centres. It enables learning to be done at the student’s
own pace. This can be in collaboration with other students, with
the assistance of the teacher or individually.
 The Edmodo App can be used by both
parents and students using various
mobile devices.
 Keep parents and students updated by
providing notes, assignments or other
updates to students who are absent.

8. Ideas for Edmodo
 Flipped classrooms, blended learning, online collaborative
learning and problem based learning can be conducted with
ease.
 Edmodo can be used for differentiated instruction and
assessment. All assignments can be annotated and feedback
can be provided on all assignments, as often as necessary.
 Writing processes in blogs or other google documents can be
monitored and easily uploaded and shared.

9. On Edmodo Communities teachers can collaborate on ways of
using Edmodo, specialty subject areas and professional
development.
Edmodo is a platform for teacher to teacher collaboration through the Edmodo
communities forum. This enables teachers to share professional development
knowledge, blogs and webpages as well as make enquiries about the practical
use of edmodo in the classroom. Teachers from all over the world are looking for
collaboration opportunities for both themselves and their students to participate in.

10. Teachers can
 display edmodo on the smartboard/teamboard and
demonstrate to students how it can be used.
 post links to what previous students have
completed through edmodo such as presentations,
videos, photos and podcasts.
 set up monthly calendars in advance indicating
holidays, assignments, tests, upcoming events.
 interact with each other, administrators, and the edmodo
support team, to learn how to use edmodo in the classroom as well as
receive professional development materials as posted files or assignments.
 post “how to” videos from YouTube to help students when they are doing
their homework at home and will give them another explanation from an
expert.
 check updates, view and reply to posts, and publish new messages to
edmodo groups from anywhere, anytime, with the mobile web application.

11. The teacher can create activities to reflect real word
problems, such as
 a class poll for students to voice their opinions and suggest
changes.
 a debate where students express their ideas through posts
which may include videos or photos to enhance their
arguments.
 bringing edmodo on your next field trip or science lab
and post photos, create scavenger hunt questions, or quiz
questions along the way.
 real-time discussions through edmodo including read
alouds, in-class movies and professional development
events, where the teacher can scaffold discussions
 backchannel discussions during current events- e.g.
elections, breaking news stories, etc.)
 students communicating in online forums and answer
questions similar to real world social or public discussion
forums.

12. Students can
 attach their assignments and send it directly to the teacher. Writing progress
can be seen throughout the year.
 have a direct link to connect to group members, tutor or teacher.
 explore multiple ideas, roles and perspectives of different people.
 save their work using their edmodo account
and work on it at home.
 perform self assessment and evaluation
of their work. E.g. what could you have
improved?
 edit each other’s writing tasks and
student responses.
 use Edmodo to ask the teacher or peers
questions of about homework and
school activities.

13. Edmodo
Edmodo is transforming teaching and learning by providing an educational
platform that both teachers and students can adapt to readily.
Edmodo accounts can be set up in less than 10 minutes.
Instructions :
 Log in as a teacher at www.edmodo.com
 Create a group
 Write down your group code before you introduce edmodo to your
students
 Watch student tutorial for edmodo at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMThesvG1Lg&featur
e=related
 Students can sign up for all subjects using the correct code
 It is free!

14. Related Links
 Digital citizenship: http://blog.edmodo.com/2012/09/19/download-the-digital-citizenship-starter-kit-
from-edmodo-common-sense-media/
 Edmodo: www.edmodo.com
 Edmodo article:
http://www.bgdailynews.com/features/learning/an-online-class-with-training-
wheels/article_e463fd12-51b4-11e1-b932-0019bb2963f4.html
 Edmodo Blog: http://blog.edmodo.com/
 Edmodo Guide: http://techtools4teaching.wikispaces.com/Edmodo
 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/edmodo
 Help Center: http://help.edmodo.com/
 How to get started: http://www.scribd.com/full/52581150?access_key=key-
mae4go653bbr23s94co
 How to use Edmodo: http://help.edmodo.com/ideas
 Parent Resource : http://www.slideshare.net/scheeler/edmodo-parent-presentation
 Teacher roll out resources: http://help.edmodo.com/teachers/teacher-rollout-resources/
 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/edmodo
 Webinars: http://help.edmodo.com/teachers/webinars/

15. Credits
http://blog.edmodo.com/category/webinar/
http://www.newlearninginstitute.org/blog/tool-review-edmodo/
http://www.openeducation.net/2008/09/20/edmodo-free-microblogging-site-for-
educators
http://www.slideshare.net/AliceWinter1/edmodo-and-herringtons-10-principles#btnNext
http://www.slideshare.net/egermann/using-edmodo-in-the-classroom#btnNext
http://www.slideshare.net/nathandrobinson/edmodo-your-classroom-online
http://www.slideshare.net/NicoleLynch/edmodo-powerpoint
http://www.slideshare.net/seyfert6/20-ways-to-use-edmodo
All images (Edmodo and Facebook) taken from their respective sites http://www.flickr.com/