EDMODO

EDMODO is a secure social learning network for teachers and students. It is also called "Facebook for Education".

We have been working with EDMODO from the Student's perspective since the beginning of the year. 

In one of our last projects, we had to work with EDMODO from the Teacher's perspective. We had to plan a lesson and design the activities using authoring tools and upload them to the EDMODO group we had created. The topics given were: revision of GO, HAVE, GET and PAST SIMPLE IRREGULAR VERBS. We decided to upload all the steps to the EDMODO group beginning with the homework and finishing with the Warm up stage of the lesson so students could see the activities and tasks in the correct order. We created a crossword and a word search using EDUCAPLAY and a multiple choice together with a fill in the gaps activity using HOT POTATOES. 

We really enjoyed using the tools. My favourite one is the fill in the gaps activity. We chose the song "Because you loved me" - Celine Dion for students to complete all the verbs in the past form. We also added a link to the clip of the song in YOUTUBE and we wrote the verbs in the infinitive form to help them complete the activity.

I think that using EDMODO is an interesting and different way of teaching a lesson. Students are motivated because they can work at their own pace, communicate with each other using their computers and complete the activities as if they were games. However, we must take into account that the Internet connections in our schools are not so good  and this reality can change our innovative lesson into a complete failure.