What to do with edmodo?

Diving into the online world allows you to surface with many fascinating tools that can be incorporated into an online classroom to build communities, foster learning, and develop engaged and motivated learners. Edmodo is a social media type site that is perfect for bridging that desire for students to be social and interact with their peers along with diving into their school work and staying on task. New Learning Times published a summary of the tool. Demetri Lales created the article title Edmodo. The article starts out with a quick description and then dives into the pros and cons of using the web based tool. Some of the identified pros include collaboration and communication among teachers, teachers awarding badges, students selecting an emotion related to the assignment. More importantly, Edmodo offers the security and ease of use that is needed for the education setting. The con described in the article was related to the available lesson types. Lales stated the system would be more valuable if teachers were able to customize their content and add more visual and engaging elements. After looking this aspect of Edmodo, it did look simple. I signed up for an Edmodo account at the start of this course. I recently received an email stating that new changes were coming based on the feedback they received. I will be looking to forward to see if this is something that will be addressed https://newlearningtimes.com/cms/article/554/edmodo Lales, D. (2013, April 09). Edmodo. Retrieved from https://newlearningtimes.com/cms/article/554/edmodo