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03 Mar, 2008

Twitter In the Classroom – Edmodo

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Student Tools| Teacher Tools

Last week I linked to a great article about using Twitter in the classroom. Today I saw a new service that is in Beta right now that is a twitter-like web app specifically designed for the Classroom… Edmodo. I was not able to get in, but you can see some screenshots here.

It promises to be the service to connect schools, teachers, parents and students.

Instant communication and connection is a great thing and if a whole school buys into something like this it could be fantastically popular and useful, but you will lose the greater Twitter community which is part of the power of Twitter.

1 Response to "Twitter In the Classroom – Edmodo"

1 | Jeff O'Hara

March 3rd, 2008 at 10:26 am

Jeff,

I appreciate you writing about edmodo. Actually beta invites have not been sent out yet, they will be going out in the next couple weeks. If you put your e-mail on our mailing list, you are almost certain to get one. If you don’t, I will personally see to it. If there are any questions you have, certainly ask me and I will answer them the best that I can.

-Jeff O’Hara
http://www.edmodo.com

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Jeff - I am an Instructional Technologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.