Edmodo

2012-08-04T10:54:00.002-07:00

Have you ever tried Edmodo? If not, I highly recommend using it during this upcoming school year. It is a great tool for educators! In my classroom last year, I just started to use Edmodo with my students. They immediately loved it (especially since it looks like Facebook.

For last year, I primarily used Edmodo for groups discussions on our Read Aloud books and reading responses for reading groups (in small sub groups by reading group). I plan to continue this and utilize the Assignment Feature on Edmodo for these reading responses and more!

I also started to use Edmodo this summer as a way to facilitate my Professional Development Course to the teachers in our district. This has proven to be a great way to organize materials and keep track of turned in and completed tasks.

For this upcoming school year, I hope to use Edmodo as a way to keep track of my students nightly reading and incorporate incentives for their reading through the awarding of badges. There is a group on Edmodo dedicated to Education Gamification- and I really like this approach for my students.

To learn more about Edmodo (did I mention it is FREE?!?!), go to www.edmodo.com. Also, to learn more about Edmodo's free, virtual conference that is coming up on August 8th, EdmodoCon2012, go to http://www.edmodocon.com/.

And so it begins...

2012-07-15T17:19:00.001-07:00

After exploring so many different blogs, I'm officially addicted! Almost eight years ago I found myself obsessed with exploring teacher websites. I taught myself how to create one by googling it! It evolved and I had a great site!

Now, the same obsession has taken place, only now with blogs. I decided that I would start a techy focused teacher blog and a classroom blog (mrspearcesclass.blogspot.com). So...it all begins here!

The Tech-Savvy Teach

Edmodo

And so it begins...