Edmodo - Safe social networking for schools - http://www.edmodo.com/

About Edmodo - http://www.edmodo.com/about

Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools. Edmodo provides classrooms a safe and easy way to connect and collaborate, offering a real-time platform to exchange ideas, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. It’s basically a modified Facebook for classroom use.

Create an account - Overview

Adjust Basic Settings - Click on the settings link

Join or Create a group -- this is where you can create your classes OR teacher groups to share assignments, notes, alerts, polls. Some people are using this on a campus as a twitter type microblogging tool as they set up their groups.

Example of joining an existing group:

Once you are in Edmodo, on the left hand side are the words “Groups Join or Create”. Click on Join and use the following code: zzywbh. This will allow you to join the NCTies EDU Glogster group.

excerpt from: http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/03/26/free-tools-challenge-5-edmodo-in-the-web-2-0-classroom/

Webinars - http://blog.edmodo.com/category/webinar/

Help Center - http://help.edmodo.com/ 

Edmodo Blog - http://blog.edmodo.com/

Teacher examples of Edmodo use in the classroom

Martha Lakey is a 2nd - 3rd grade ESL teacher at Midlothian ISD. She presented Edmodo at the Region 10 Technology Planning Conference on May 10, 2011.

Here is a link to the information she shared about setting up and using Edmodo in the classroom.

http://21stcenturylearningwithedmodo.wikispaces.com/Why+Edmodo%3F

Teacher Challenge -- Edmodo

http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/03/26/free-tools-challenge-5-edmodo-in-the-web-2-0-classroom/

Classroom 2.0 Live Webinar with additional resources --

http://live.classroom20.com/1/category/edmodo/1.html

Cybraryman resources - this is a great resources for Edmodo and hundreds of other web 2.0 tools

http://cybraryman.com/edmodo.html