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Edmodo is a social networking website utilized as a collaborative, secure environment. The website allows teachers and students to visually interact with many of its features. The "how to" video was created in Spring 2012.
Edmodo is a social networking website utilized as a collaborative, secure environment. The website allows teachers and students to visually interact with many of its features. The "how to" video was created in Spring 2012.
Edmodo is a social networking website utilized as a collaborative, secure environment. The website allows teachers and students to visually interact with many of its features. The "how to" video was created in Spring 2012.
The How To video was created Spring 2012. In Fall 2012, I presented many resources, including the video from my ISTC course, as a professional development.
The professional development was given by me to intermediate teachers; 3rd- 5th. However, the video that was created involved several participants. The staff members and students involved in the production of the video were credited at the end of the video. The editing and production of the video itself was worked on individually through Moviemaker.
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Throughout my graduate program I became familiar with an online learning platform called edmodo. In my ISTC 633 course; Instructional Video, I created a How To video on implementing edmodo in the classroom. I utilized my prior experience developing edmodo pages in my graduate program and in my third grade classroom and had the opportunity to present edmodo to my staff as a professional development.
The production of this video consisted of practical use of the Instructional Systems Design Process (ISD), video production process, and proper application of the technical skill-sets that I had to master during this class. To make the video I used Moviemaker 2.6, a flip camera, my third grade students and coworkers at Woodholme. Sources used to produce the video were properly cited in credits.
Justification & Reflection This 4 minute Web 2.0 video shows how the features of edmodo can have a positive impact on professional development for my coworkers at Woodholme. edmodo is a social networking website utilized as a collaborative, secure environment. The website is intended for teacher-student and studentstudent communication and collaboration. By choosing this edmodo blog and How To video as an artifact, I demonstrate the importance of communication and technology integration for students and teachers. My edmodo group allowed teachers to visually interact with many of its features. It served as an online environment to post assignments and reminders, build an event calendar, and post messages to created groups. The website also allows for microblogging so teachers and students can share links, videos, and images.
This web 2.0 tool is extremely versatile in its capabilities. My original purpose was to motivate and engage my students. From a constructivist perspective, content knowledge is easily transferred and created through students blogging and exploring links and attached resources. Based on the idea of content integrated with technology, pedagogical implementation is key for the other two factors to be beneficial in successful learning. This is why I concentrated on how edmodo is a more powerful tool in terms of professional development. Teacher-teacher communication can motivate teachers to be a part of this online community. Teachers have the same capabilities: sharing lessons, success stories, and exchanging ideas that help build good instruction. That is the main ingredient in transferring the content to students; to develop good pedagogical practices.
It is important for schools to not only provide teachers with technology tools to use, but also to provide them with the time and professional development experiences necessary to learn how to use the technology (Kovalik, 2001). This support is essential for teachers to develop a positive attitude toward technology integration and to feel confident enough to incorporate it into their instruction (Kadijevich, 2006).