Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Edmodo - A Facebook for the Classroom!

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Edmodo is a social network specialized for education, specifically student-teacher interaction with an option for parents to review the progress of their children at school. LinkedIn’s, the professional networking site’s founder Reid Hoffman sees a great future for a social network that enhances the school learning experience and has invested in the start up venture.
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Edmodo is free to use and boasts the following cool features:

  • Easier for students to engage, collaborate, exchange ideas and share content in a secure, closed environment with fellow students and their teachers.

  •  Enables differentiated instruction/supervision either for one-to-one or for the whole group.

  • Provide easy access to projects, classwork and school events through assignments, quiz builder, calendar and gradebook features.

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  • Built-in analytics tools to measure school and classroom engagement and adoption.

  • Allow students to access the content they need immediately via their Edmodo 'Backpack'. Also allows you to Create and manage your personal content library, including the best content you've discovered, shared and received.

Edmodo also enables advanced best-practice sharing by:

  • Instantly connecting teachers to a global network of educators using Edmodo Communities


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  • Facilitates communication within and between schools and districts.


  • Helps parents, teachers and students track and measure academic success.


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