Your Online Classroom

www.edmodo.com

By: Tiffaney Lavoie, KEDC tiffaney.lavoie@kedc.org

Your Turn to Create a Teacher Account

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First Things First: Become a member in my RMTW group

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No emails required!

My group code

is:

RMTW Edmodo ResourcesFind helpful documents inside the “Edmodo resources” folder on the RMTW group page

Ways to Use Edmodo:

A Student Quick Start Guide:

Next Step: Create Groups

Groups = Classes

Create as many groups as needed

Students Can Now Join Your Class: Just give them your Group Code

Manage Student Info Here

For Detailed Help, Download the User Guide: RMTW > Folders > Edmodo Resources > User Guide

The Basics of Posting:

4 Ways to Post:

NoteAlertAssignmentPoll

Tag Your Posts = Info Finding Made Easy

To Filter Tags:

Latest PostsRight-Hand ColumnSelect Desired Tag

Upload Your Files to the Library

Every file that is uploaded to Edmodo ends up in your library.

Folders allow you to organize your library by content area, class period, units covered, etc.

Join an Edmodo Community

www.edmodo.com/communities

Ways to Incorporate Edmodo

Posting Assignments Parent and Student Communication Authentic Audience Peer Reviews, whole class discussion Platform for Lesson Delivery Formative Assessment

http://theedublogger.com

http://technorati.com

Other Resources as You Venture Into Blogging:

The Camping Trip

·Lerman, James, and Ronique Hicks. "Lesson Plans." Retool your school: the educator's essential guide to Google's free power apps. Eugene, Or.: International Society for Technology in Education, 2010. 227-229. Print.

Objectives: Students will be able to:1. Add money to the thousands2. Critique the rationale of other

students3. Identify and enumerate

necessary items for a camping trip

4. Present a rationale for their decisions to purchase various items needed for survival

Effective use of Blogger and Google Search

Item Individual Use or Shared?

Why this item is needed Cost

total

Bulging Backpacks: Scatter Plots

How Blogging Can Be Used:

1. Pre-Assess understanding of scatter plots by having students post comments to an initial question

2. Allow the class to work in groups and once their scatter plot is created, have them take a picture with their mobile device (or a digital or document camera) and post the picture to the blog using the email posting address. Have other groups comment to the image post on what they observe and how it compares to the scatter plot they created

3. As an exit slip, use an online polling website as a formative assessment tool and embed the question into a blog post

"Bulging Backpacks." Math Solutions. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2011. <www.mathsolutions.com>.

Fun with Baseball Stats

Students will work with fractions, decimals and percentages using baseball statistics

Students will recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics

"Illuminations: Fun with Baseball Stats." Illuminations: Welcome to Illuminations. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2011. <http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L257>.

Multiplying Binomials: Three methods

Box Distributive

FOIL

Have students break into groups, with each group viewing a different PowerPoint so that all three methods are explored.

Have the students re-create the method the explored with a new problem and be prepared to present it to the group

As the teacher, publish a post asking which method they feel is easiest or "clicks" with them. Students will respond in the form of a comment. Be sure they support their opinion

Blogging Project:

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Actual Weight

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Questions???