HAVE YOU TRIED EDMODO?

Edmodo is one of the best online educational tools for classrooms today. As posted in Wikipedia, "Edmodo (stylized edmodo) is a social learning platform for teachers, students, and parents. It is commonly thought of as the Facebook of schools, as called by pupils and teachers alike."

It has a look much like Facebook so students can begin using it immediately. It is really quite easy to maintain an Edmodo site as a teacher and to use it as a student. It's a great site for collaboration within the classroom. Teachers are able to ...

• post notes
• take a class poll
• create a quiz
• grade assignments happens automatically, or manually, depending on how it's posted
• award badges to students
• embed videos
• post documents
• maintain their own library of every sort of document, video, links
• have access to hundreds of free and paid for educational apps that can be shared with the class
• create multiple classes
• collaborate with other teachers in all types of subjects
• give parents have an Edmodo account
• and so much more!

Check it out at www.edmodo.com  And the best part - it's FREE!