Developing Voicethread and Edmodo for the Classroom

Antwuan Stinson, Ed. D. Professor, Secondary Education

Curriculum & Instruction Alabama State University

Current Professional Development

What Professional Development should look like

1. To give you an idea what is available for teachers

2. Guide you through a few tools that I use with my students

3. Give you some ideas to help you expand your information and page on the schools website

CoolToolsforSchools Wikispaces Google for Teachers Google apps My Google Site EdWeb2 Wikispaces

GO2WEB20.NET

Rubistar

Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)

Youtube

Designate a day for critical thinking or creative ideas for a major grade

Try Glogster for online student development of multimedia posters

Use Voicethread for the collection of group conversations, images, documents, and video

Create a Edmodo site for classroom interaction (blog, discussions, projects)

What can Voicethread webtool be used for? Students can share stories or design a project which explains an assignment. Allow students to change or amend it any way they wish. This authentic assessment will engage creative students for hours.

Book Stories

Solving math problems

Flip books

Pre-reading and making predictions

Field trips

Back to school night tour of your classroom

Creating digital collages over the year

Authors of a certain period

Scientific method Animal Habitats Photosynthesis Lab report or

dissections

http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/

Digital Discourse

Facebook for the Classroom

Presented by: Columbia Borough SD

Park Elementary, Grade 5: Michael Deiter, Rachel Fried, Kevin Kreider

& Fellow Students: JH, MS, ST, JS

Facebook for school

Mirrors social networks

Classroom, school, and collaboration abroad

Meaningful center and off task options

Online tracking and grouping opportunities

Free

Privacy

Used in any subject

Assign and explain online… just 1 time!

Attach and links, media, files

Organize content in Edmodo permanent Library

Create polls and quizzes

Grade online with rubrics

Threaded discussions- prepare for online learning!

Parent access

Edmodo Setup

Edmodo is FREE!

Teachers Can Manage

Their Own Groups (Change Passwords,

Remove Students, Remove Groups)

No Email Needed for

Students to Join a Group (Just a Group Code)

Optional: Parents Can

Access the Group

(Each Student Has Their Own

Parent Access Code)

Edmodo Offers Many Ways

to Communicate and

Collaborate

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Way 1: Conversations

about assignments

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Way 2: Create a Library

of Posts with Tagging

25

Way 3: Create a Cross-

Classroom Shared

Group

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Way 4: Post to yourself

Way 5: Poll Students/Teachers

Way 6: Assignment as a Digital

Dropbox

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Way 7: Link to Google

Docs to share them

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3

4

5

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Way 9: Set-up a Class

Calendar

You can view separate group calendars or see everything all-in-one.

Way 10: Send out Directions Using

the Note and Reply…Threaded

Discussions

Jigsaw, Think-Pair-Share,

Literature Circle?

Subgroups Within a Group

Step 1

Step 2

Edmodo Privacy

Students Can Only Send

Messages to the

Group or Teacher.

Students are unable to direct message each other.

Antwuan Stinson

mrstinson34@gmail.com

(334) 229-7690 (office)

(334) 377-0537 (text my Google Voice)