Does anyone have any knowledge of or experience with a website called edmodo.com? Apparently it's a "secure social networking site for teachers and students". My daughter came home from a sleepover the other day and said her friends had set her up with this. I was more than a little miffed that anyone would sign my daughter up for something like this without our permission, but that's a whole other issue. The site looks like Facebook, but (of course) she says it's really safe and only her friends are on it and they never post anything inappropriate, yadda yadda yadda. I gave her the whole talk about not using words like never and always (I've never been struck by lightening, but that doesn't mean I never will...) and how she has no control over what other people post, etc., but I'm just wondering how this site works and if it is safer somehow or what. Anyone ever use it before? What was your experience?
Well if it's for teachers and students why not ask your daughter's teacher about it?
Also, have you contacted their customer service with your questions? If it's a valid, safe site I'm sure parents can log in and have access too.
The school district I work for uses it. The students receive a log-in code through the teachers - my students were given the paperwork on it in class, and I e-mailed all of the parents about it with the log-in info. The teachers monitor the page. I post reminders about homework, answer questions as students do their assignments, and the students will work together to work on class assignments through there, so I can monitor it and make sure they are on the right track. Anything that isn't to set standards as far as dealing with the assignments and so on, I pull from the site.
I use it with my students and love it. It is safer because I can monitor and pull anything that doesn't belong there. It is a great way to get kids used to using tech for assignments. They enjoy the change too. Hope that helps ya!
Never heard of it, but looked at the site looks like its monitored by the teacher. It seems you need the teachers code to sign up. It also looks like there is a parent sign up, but you need a parent code. I'm not sure how you get that, but I think it might be worth looking into, just to keep an eye on things.
But the whole site seems to be a way for teachers to interact with students with assignments and the like.
I would definitely be interested in overseeing what my daughter would be doing on this site, so I would look into the parent sign up.
