FlippedPD Creating a Paperless Classroom With Edmodo Quizzes & Assignments Tagged with: 1:1Earth Daypaperless This is a guest post by Kelley Taylor, a 6th grade teacher at Christ the King School in Lexington, KY. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Connect with Kelley on Edmodo or follow her @kelley1221 Background I teach sixth grade language arts and religion at a Catholic school in Lexington, Kentucky. Going Paperless Within the first month, I found that my classes were completely paperless. More efficiency in assessing and differentiating lessonsDocumentation of class discussions (especially literature circles) and assignment submissionIncreased opportunities for student participation and collaborationExposure to 21st century skills for students Making the Transition to Paperless Before I was paperless, students would practice grammar skills exercises every day in class and then for homework. I transitioned those same exercises into Edmodo Quizzes. Saving Time With Assignments Get Additional Tips
Top 8 Plagiarism Plagiarism is a plague which has accompanied human scholarship from its early inception till its actual state. It has succeeded in adapting itself to different environments and in different epochs. It always finds people to nourish and develop it. With this boom in digital technology, plagiarism has been elevated to the ranks of serious epidemics. 1- Plagium Plagium is a cool plagirism detection tool. 2- Turnitin This is another great tool for detecting plagiarism in your students work. 3- Dupli Checker With you Dupli Checker you only have to copy paste, or upload your content file containing essay, thesis, website content or articles, and click ‘search’, and you get the analysis reports within seconds. 4- iThenticate iThenticate is a service offered by Plagiarism.org, but is geared more toward professional writing and scholarly research. PlagiarismChecker.com makes it simple for educators to check for copied work by pasting phrases from a student's paper into a search box.
SETT – A Framework for Making Informed Decisions About Inclusive Technologies Technology is a tool that serves a set of education goals, and if we don’t think about what we want the technology for first, we end up with technology driven solutions that have very little impact on the lives of children and in our educational system Linda Roberts, U. S. Department of Education Introduction The last 10 years have seen a dramatic increase in the growth and development of inclusive technology tools (the term ‘inclusive technology’ is often used interchangeably with ‘assistive technology’ – see for a more detailed discussion). As Individual Education Plan (IEP) teams meet to consider inclusive technology options, team members are faced with either an overwhelming array of choices or face the assistive technology paradox, “How do I know what is available if I don’t know what is available?” SETT Framework SETT is an acronym for Student, Environment, Task and Tools. What are the student’s current abilities?
20 Ways Teachers Can Use Edmodo In this post, I am sharing with you some interesting resources created by the folks in Edmodo to help teachers worldwide better leverage the educational potential of Edomodo in their classrooms. The first part includes some interactive free PDF guides available for free download. These guides include illustrations, tips. ideas, and several links. In the second part of this post, I am sharing with you a post first published in Edmodo blog featuring 20 ways Teachers can use Edmodo. Check out the PDF guides: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. French Tag Home Showing Playlists 1-10 of 80 total: Paris The City of Lights: Discover the treasures of Paris! This playlist includes popular sites to visit By Patricia Gallagher Steps: 8 Views: 2083 France And The Early Cold War 1945-1960 A collaborative project between Mme Gallagher and Mr. By Patricia Gallagher Steps: 9 Views: 2476 Les Déterminants This list offers a series of exercises about the use of "déterminants": - articles - adjectifs démonstratifs - adjectifs possessifs By Guy Vandenbroucke Steps: 11 Views: 30342 Showing Playlists 1-10 of 80 total.
Flip Your Classroom With the Edmodo Scavenger Hunt Tagged with: Language ArtsMiddle Schoolstudents This is a guest post from Melissa Butler, a 6th grade Language Arts teacher from South Orange, New Jersey. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. I currently teach in a “brand new” 1:1 learning environment and Edmodo has undoubtedly enhanced both the teaching and learning experiences in my classroom. Flip Your Classroom With the Edmodo Scavenger Hunt This school year I began with an activity for my students, which I titled, “The Edmodo Scavenger Hunt.” Using Edmodo, I delivered online instruction to my students into an actual active and engaging learning environment. Awarding Student Badges After completing the Edmodo Scavenger Hunt, not only did the students earn merits in “10 teacher-created badges,” but they also achieved a high level as Edmodo experts. Make Your Own Scavenger Hunt Here is the Livebinder link where you can find my Edmodo Scavenger Hunt.
כלים לתכנון שיעור Pedagogically speaking, lesson plans are very important elements in the teaching process. Besides giving life to a lesson they also give it a structure and organize its components in such an orderly way that students can systematically take it in. I am not really a huge fan of lesson planning for I consider it a laboriously monotonous task that adds up to the pile of strenuous chores teachers have to perform at home. I do prefer creating mental mind maps of my lessons before I deliver them to my students, but as you know, the administrative procedure, and work ' ethics' require us to have a formal written lesson plan to go hand in hand with what we teach. 1- Planboard This is a simple tool that is desgined specifically for teachers and educators to simplify their lesson planning. 2- Core Planner Core Planner is a great website that allows teachers to create lesson plans with Common Core Standards in mind. 3- Plan Book Edu This is another great tool for teachers .
Edmodo Watch this video on another page You can start using Edmodo in your classroom in no time at all! Follow these three simple steps to create a Teacher Account: Navigate to www.edmodo.com and select the “I’m a Teacher” button to create your free Account.Fill out the registration form and select the “Sign Up” button to complete the sign up process.Check your e-mail for a confirmation to view the next steps for setting up your Edmodo Account. Note: If your school or district has signed up for an Edmodo subdomain, read more about how to join your school or district's Edmodo site! thefishbowl - Schoology and Edmodo Goal:Participate in a short guided tour of Schoology and EdmodoEngage after the session in further learning and engagement with other KIS participants via Schoology and/or EdmodoConsider adopting one of these platforms for your classroom learningRationale: While Wikispaces is an extremely useful and practical platform to use in schools and classrooms, due mainly to use simplicity, the conclusion increasing numbers of educators are coming to is that we cannot really connect (easily) with our students and truly engage. Wikis are for mainly for posting (information) and retrieving... Enter Schoology and Edmodo, just two in a growing field of Learning Management Systems that allow students to truly 'participate' and engage in learning, in a secure environment (password protected).Introduction:Schoology and Edmodo are social media platforms often described as a Facebook for schools. They are that and much more. Edmodo Which one?
Mme-Dill - home School Library Monthly - Edmodo: A Great Tool for School Librarians” School Library Monthly/Volume XXIX, Number 5/February 2013 Edmodo: A Great Tool for School Librarians by Kristina Holzweiss Kristina Holzweiss is a school librarian at Bay Shore Middle School in Long Island, NY. She is an Edmodo Ambassador who also moderates a website of free Common Core resources ( To join her national school librarian cohort in pursuit of National Board Certification, email her at lieberrian@yahoo.com School librarians are in a profession where it is easy to be isolated. Edmodo and Common Core State Standards I first experienced the possibilities of Edmodo at a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) workshop. Edmodo, a cyber-safe social learning network, was created in 2008 as the brainchild of Nic Borg and Jeff O’Hara: "…to evolve our school environment to reflect the connected world in which we live, set out to create a tool that closes the gap between how students live their lives and how they learn in school (
כלים לפרסום עבודות תלמידים There is nothing much rewarding for students than to see their accomplished work being published and celebrated with others. This is very much motivating and is a strong impetus for them to achieve more and work harder. Can you imagine how happy a student would be to share his classroom work with his parents in a neat and clean online platform that they access anywhere and anytime ? There are several online tools that you as a teacher can use to host your students work and share them with the whole class and as well as parents .Below are some tools that can help you do that. Check them out : 1- Flipsnack Fipsnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications ideal for publishing students work. 2- Issuu This is another populat website where you can upload and share your students work very easily and for free.3- Tikatok Tikatok lets you easily create an unlimited books online . 4- Mixbook 6- Lulu 7- Other tools
Edmodo founders, Nic Borg and Jeff O'Hara