'FACEBOOK' for Teachers and Students

Hi there

A good social networking site for teachers and students. Let me present to you, EDMODO.

As you can see from the image, edmodo lets us sign up as a teacher or as a students. A teacher could have more than one classes by using one account. Moreover, parents could also sign up just to check on their children activity on this site. The parents just need to have a parent code to sign in to the site.

Here is a tutorial to set up an account using Edmodo


p/s: It a good tutorial. Sorry it is an old video, it has the old interface.

How can Edmodo be used in language classroom??

This is a good tool for teacher to interact with students in a class. Teacher could use it to set up a homework to the whole class. Moreover, this tool can also act as a medium where teachers could leave a reminder to the students as well.
 Besides, students could also use this tool to ask question to the teacher. The question could be directed directly to the group that the students belong to or directly to the teacher. Teacher or other students then could just reply on the post that has been posted. (just like facebook)

Advantages of using this tool:

• It is free!! (we like free stuff)
• It can be used as a means of communication. (teacher-students, Teacher-student, student-student or vice versa)
• It can also be used to promotes discussion among students in class. Where teacher could give question and students discuss by replying to the post.
• Parents could monitor their children activity.

Disadvantages of using this tool:

• Internet connection is needed.
• Looks lame. (compare to facebook)