If you haven’t heard of it, edmodo
is a free learning management system that resembles social networking sites
such as Facebook and Twitter. It
provides a safe, controlled environment in which students and teachers can
interact and communicate easily and quickly.
Now, our school system had been using edmodo for about a
year. I even had an account, but I could
only see it as a professional development tool.
I didn’t see how I could utilize it in MY classroom. Until now!
My third grade students have been doing a novel study using
the book, Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater. After each chapter, the students would write
a response in their journal. Sometimes
the response was to answer a question about comprehension or inferring, other
times it consisted of making graphic organizers or drawings about what they had
read. After FETC, it dawned on me that I
could use edmodo as a reading response journal.
PERFECT!
So, my students created accounts. I posted a question. They replied in complete sentences, at least
they were supposed to! But, at least
they responded! And the best part…They
were EXCITED about ‘writing’!
Here are a few examples of our posts: (P.S. The grammar, spelling, and punctuation is still a work in progress!)
I can't wait to discover new ways to use edmodo with my third graders. Any ideas???
