Useful Microblogging Sites
1. Twitter (www.twitter.com)
2. Pinterest (www.pinterest.com)
3. Edmoto (www.edmoto.com)
- Signing up is free!
- Fast, convenient way to update parents and students about your classroom.
- Tweet announcements, upcoming assignments, test reminders, classroom challenges, and more.
2. Pinterest (www.pinterest.com)
- Signing up is also free!
- Search for ideas to use in the classroom or new ways to teach particular material.
- Pin the ideas to save them for later use.
3. Edmoto (www.edmoto.com)
- A "social learning platform” website for teachers, students, and parents marketed as the Facebook for schools.
- Can be used to post and critique work, facilitate collaboration, post creative writing, create polls for student responses, embed video clips, create learning groups, post quizzes for students to take, and create a calendar of events and assignments.
- Students can also turn in assignments or upload assignments for their teachers to view and grade. Teachers can annotate the assignments directly in Edmodo to provide instant feedback.
- Either sign up for free or log in using the following information
Username: [email protected] Password: summer2014
