Social Media, as an educator, has always been something that I tried to stay away from. The main reason for my absence is because I never wanted anything to be misconstrued. As a teacher having a Facebook, Myspace, or twitter can be dangerous if you are not careful. With that being said it has always been my policy to keep social media separate from my job. While working through the assignment this week, Edmodo seems to take away some of the risk of that traditional social media holds. After signing up and navigating my homepage, Edmodo is really simple to start and maintain. I actually connected with teachers who are at my school already using it. With a little hard work and time this type of media can really be helpful in making my classroom paperless. I found many resources that I will be able to use in the coming days for both of my classes. I already haven them linked to my library and are working on how to implement them into my lessons. I also added an app to my list that always students to quiz themselves and earn points. It’s called Battle Quiz and I purchased it with a credit given to me from the store. All of the resources that came up in the discover section are relevant to my subject area. I really enjoyed the Timeline resources that I added to my library as well as the articles about content we are about to get into. I can imagine this platform working a lot like Moodle in my classroom, or like My Big Campus. These give the teacher the ability to go paperless and add more technology content to the classroom. I am excited about the opportunity to start playing with this in my classes and seeing some of the feedback that I get from it.
Classroom 2.0, to me, is a different media platform and feels more geared towards professionals rather than students. Right when you get to the website the look and feel is geared more towards professionals. I felt the navigation was a little more difficult, and the toolbar was tricky to work. It does seem like a great place to connect with other educators, and find new information for your field. Teachers have posted some interesting articles in the forum and given their opinions on some intense subjects within education. I really liked the video section of the site, and it even allowed you to search for a specific topic, rather than searching through the massive amount of media available on the site. I said at the beginning that the two sites were different, one geared towards students and the other for professionals. Both sites have a wide array of resources available to teachers to help make their jobs easier, and more beneficial to the students sitting in their classroom.
Classroom 2.0, to me, is a different media platform and feels more geared towards professionals rather than students. Right when you get to the website the look and feel is geared more towards professionals. I felt the navigation was a little more difficult, and the toolbar was tricky to work. It does seem like a great place to connect with other educators, and find new information for your field. Teachers have posted some interesting articles in the forum and given their opinions on some intense subjects within education. I really liked the video section of the site, and it even allowed you to search for a specific topic, rather than searching through the massive amount of media available on the site. I said at the beginning that the two sites were different, one geared towards students and the other for professionals. Both sites have a wide array of resources available to teachers to help make their jobs easier, and more beneficial to the students sitting in their classroom.