In today's class we presented different social media sites with our groups that could be incorporated into teaching. Our presentation was on Pinterest and the other groups presented Scoop it, Symbaloo, and Livebinders.
I'm familiar with Pinterest because I use it personally, but of the other 3 that were presented I think I really like Scoop it! I liked how it was a newspaper style pinboard and the articles were posted directly to the page, as opposed to a link to an outside site.
After our presentations, we covered Edmodo, which was great because the 8th grade ELL class I'm currently observing uses Edmodo daily and I had no idea what it was. Professor Ross put several tasks on Edmodo and showed us how to turn in assignments thru the site. Our assignments showed us how Gamification can be used in the classroom. It was a lot of fun and definitely something that would keep students interested and engaged.
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