Have you tried Obami - an internationally recognised, award-winning, social learning management system?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a guest post from Ennis Jones from Obami. Obami is a local social learning management system and has won several international awards. Recently Obami digitized the Anas for teachers. Obami is free and well worth trying out in your classroom - with good local support available.</span></i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">What is Obami?</b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obami is an internationally recognised, award-winning, social learning management system. It is local, contextual, customisable and free.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What does Obami do?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obami helps people to create or join learning communities. It is available on web and mobile and brings <strong>everyone</strong>within the education space together... learners, teachers and parents; as well as governing bodies, NGO's, small businesses, corporates-doing-good, and other passionate people. </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQ4-Dhhxw7s9TyLJTBVPiM10BgpQ2dOVCx5VophxEtZlRn4AYMWtE31QEO0g6RjGyktZ7bow5EPwx52rx8HW3jmapa_6mwShN0_u8n3yGreHbIAW-cYciIHbxtnFhifmPM7m-33lFd14/s1600/Obami.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQ4-Dhhxw7s9TyLJTBVPiM10BgpQ2dOVCx5VophxEtZlRn4AYMWtE31QEO0g6RjGyktZ7bow5EPwx52rx8HW3jmapa_6mwShN0_u8n3yGreHbIAW-cYciIHbxtnFhifmPM7m-33lFd14/s400/Obami.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;">By applying social media technologies to the virtual learning environment, Obami provides a powerful solution for individuals or schools to tap into or support existing learning communities. This gives everyone the opportunity to connect, create, share and learn.  </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Obami is free for primary and secondary schools.</span></span><br /><strong><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">General Overview</span></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/obami/about_obami"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://www.obami.com/portals/obami/about_obami</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /><br />Obami supports and enhances all aspects of the teaching and learning experience. I</span></strong><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;">t provides a platform that...</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;">- Facilitates the sharing of great educational resources<br />- Encourages social engagement between educators and learners<br />- Offers academic and personal development through assessment</span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;">Obami ensures the most appropriate experience for everyone. S</span></strong><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 11pt;">chools can manage the safety, privacy and sharing settings - relevant to different ages, grades and social circles - within the context of their own school, the wider Obami community and the world-wide-web. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Obami also provides school and other learning community administrators with cyber-bully and profanity monitoring tools, ensuring that the environment is kept enjoyable for all.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><strong><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="EN-ZA">Demo: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Demo">http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Demo</a></span><span lang="EN-ZA"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Obami in Action</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Content: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Obami_in_Action/Content">http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Obami_in_Action/Content</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA">Communications: </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Obami_in_Action/Communications">http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Obami_in_Action/Communications</a></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Projects: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Obami_in_Action/Projects">http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Obami_in_Action/Projects</a></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Assessment: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Obami_in_Action/Assessment">http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Obami_in_Action/Assessment</a></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More about Obami</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obami is a web and mobile based platform that allows anyone to create, manage & access digital content, share resources, create mini-websites and even undertake exams - it brings social learning into the classroom.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because some schools have been slow to manage change and adopt new technologies, Obami accommodates requests from independent learners (individuals under and over 13 years of age) via the “Obami School”. The platform doesn’t aim to replicate Facebook but rather to focus on developing and nurturing creative skills - as a result, the learning platform has been recognised for these efforts: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vT2Darc2mg&feature=c4-overview&list=UUM91plbqCLGj1RqqeKDrm8w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vT2Darc2mg&feature=c4-overview&list=UUM91plbqCLGj1RqqeKDrm8w</a></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obami supports learning beyond the classroom involving peers, parents, on the street and even on the bus.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA">Slideshare intro:</span><span lang="EN-ZA"> </span></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/barbsmall/powering-social-learning-25630491?from_search=3"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.slideshare.net/barbsmall/powering-social-learning-25630491?from_search=3</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obami features</span></span></span></b><br />-<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b>Obami Portals</b> can be created by anyone. By focusing on learning by ‘doing’, portals allow for communities to be created around user generated content. Portals are easy to set up with simple “add item” and “drag & drop” functionality. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The add item tool accommodates anything from formatted text and extended math symbols and equations, to embeddable widgets, images, RSS feeds and even entire websites. Obami automatically resizes elements to fit within a number of pre-defined page templates but also offers tools which allow for tooltips, external hyperlinks and the bespoke resizing of images. All this allows for educator facilitated, as well as self organised, learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA">- Obami has an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">assignments </b>application which can be used for pop-quizzes, tests, surveys or as feedback forms, questionnaires and permissions slips. Obami recently crowd-sourced 168 NSC past papers through UCT students, across 33 different subject areas and made them Obami style ‘sit & submit’ revision papers for Matrics: </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/NSC_past_papers/">http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/NSC_past_papers/</a></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-ZA">... They also digitised the ANAs across Grade 4/5/6 & 9 themselves:</span><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/Welcome_to_Obami/ANAs">http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/Welcome_to_Obami/ANAs</a></span></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Obami has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">resource</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">media</b> applications to facilitate the storage of items in the cloud (docs, spreadsheets, PDFs, audio, video...). Alongside offering free cloud hosting, it can also facilitate the embedding of widgets, YouTube videos, OER, Slideshare presentations and other web based technologies throughout the platform and within its other applications.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Obami has a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">blogging</b> application. It can be used across different subjects and organised into specific subject folders.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Obami has powerful communication tools including a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">messaging</b>system, online <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">chat</b> and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">calendar</b> for event tracking (which automatically sync with parental accounts so that upcoming school work, impending tests and homework is easily communicated to parents). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is worth noting that every application on Obami allows for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">commenting</b>so that discussion can be facilitated. Pages can be printed for easy reading and any page can be set as one’s homepage. This allows for easy and rapid access to one’s most used application.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using Obami in the classroom, support and feedback</span></span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA">Obami FAQs, Tutorials etc: </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/obami/faqs">http://www.obami.com/portals/obami/faqs</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obami prides itself on offering full site page specific helper text along with unlimited access to online support which is offered via the platform’s feedback tab (responses are usually made within 2 hours)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Summary</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obami has focused on the South African market, even though it is being increasingly adopted in the US, Europe and other African countries like Ghana, Namibia, Botswana and Kenya.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA">Accolades and achievements: </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Latest_News">http://www.obami.com/portals/Obami/About_Obami/Latest_News</a></span></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Most recent unpublicized successes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obami supports the DBE and will be working together to bring quality educational resources and support the cloud</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA"> <span style="font-size: 7pt;">       </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-ZA">Obami has been asked to consult the Nigerian Government<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA"> <span style="font-size: 7pt;">       </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-ZA">Obami was selected as one of Africa’s Top 40 Start-up companies, and will be presenting at DEMO Africa in Nairobi <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA"> <span style="font-size: 7pt;">       </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-ZA">Obami has partnered with the University of Cape Town, and is part of the curricula for its Teaching with Technology moduleA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-ZA"> <span style="font-size: 7pt;">       </span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obami has partnered with Creative Commons and will be delivering a digital course on licensing creative works across Africa</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">The Obami Team Story </b><br />Watch the Obami Team story on YouTube</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><span lang="EN-ZA" style="background-color: white;">The Obami Team story...  </span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ObamiSocialLearning">http://www.youtube.com/user/ObamiSocialLearning</a></span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jVtfUIRW_YE" width="420"></iframe></div>

Learning Management Systems Obami Have you tried Obami - an internationally recognised, award-winning, social learning management system?

This is a guest post from Ennis Jones from Obami. Obami is a local social learning management system and has won several international awards. Recently Obami digitized the Anas for teachers. Obami is free and well worth trying out in your classroom -…

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Introduce your class to Edmodo – a great Learning Management System

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzk7e8buCf1OB4g4gEQRW38L1EfxyyFcKHZtCzNGTYB7CxKnld8YumzfabgEqrl-RE24byAyP9mO6lSQvfcRUFtMCQWsFDSaHQL6xrrtpd3x-fhL8-Y6OnEqJsOLFFEzfSqssK7RndkiY/s1600-h/image%25255B11%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwRr1bgg7JL5VQbC-4UEAlvvY5qATedvXrpFWZfEHyQH0_0KPt39C_5yhHOzUoiPCnMEr850EkoKEWgm7Mwbm7PZsd6XIyyvbdv3dV_4YAGaUyJpPKkYgl9KXnAFjkcNGg9AbP1aEZO60/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://www.edmodo.com/home"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has become the Learning Management System (LMS) of choice for many teachers around the world. Edmodo is one of those Learning Management Systems that every teacher can successfully use in their classroom whether they have PCs, a BYOD classroom, an iPad/tablet classroom or just one computer/tablet in the classroom. It works across the board. Best is, that if a teacher so desires, he/she can even invite the parents to join  the class Edmodo group as well. All Edmodo needs, really, is an enthusiastic teacher that has access to a laptop. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWcNjztKijsMXnTLnhj-10TiJNmoFJCcGJ_OJmf-ULSKHRGD3bEIijFZbsiEz21ceF3h6vgkddmIDU7z4SxexJIF2mpmEhUvZKma2A4XmXfKwcyvL-83UnQpEsadg54aooUi9LyVD_QhM/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Wx5Ji6aY7ddjjF5L0Pq0VfaCPB8V0sy9bEbQu3mD3Xem11fy-hy8xXCb_0hfQZzP4zSXR2HRj6X6cnSGSVjhk7gCm0HHwgeRuxjNr_uafX31KPMTCjZr0EgBLq5-aHVqODB1TDeVN1U/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a></div><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is Edmodo</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.edmodo.com/">Edmodo</a> is a free web-based platform that teachers can use to manage their class, share content, access homework and other school items. It is also a safe social networking place for the students in the class to connect and collaborate with one another.  What the students like about Edmodo is it’s Facebook-like appearance. Students don’t need email addresses – they sign in via an access code. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Edmodo’s features</span></strong><strong></strong></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> collaboration feature</strong> where the teacher and students can add comments and share files such as PowerPoints, Word documents, videos etc can be shared.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> ‘folders’ feature which </strong>enables one to organize documents in a folder and share that folder with a class.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has an<strong> assignment feature</strong> which allows one to post an assignment with a due date and a task sheet, see who submitted it and when, mark it using a PDF annotation tool, grade/assess it and give feedback all in one neat place. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> quiz feature which enables on to</strong> create really quick and simple quizzes to use in class. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a <b>poll feature</b> which allows on to create quick survey polls in class. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> note feature</strong> where, for example, the students can write a reflection. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> members feature</strong> which enables on to manage one’s students in each class or group. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> small groups feature</strong> which is great for managing group work. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> discussion feature</strong> which enables an online discussion to take place</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure there are more features that I haven't yet got to know.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Using Edmodo in the classroom</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a Slideshare entitled ‘20 ways to use Edmodo’ </span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/10110267" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="427"> </iframe><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/seyfert6/20-ways-to-use-edmodo" target="_blank" title="20 Ways to Use Edmodo">20 Ways to Use Edmodo</a> </strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/seyfert6" target="_blank">seyfert6</a></strong> </span></div><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A cheat sheet that summarises Edmodo</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This useful cheat sheet summarises Edmodo. Click on the image to be taken to the enlarged image</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqngDlwIG55g0KNj2xx19Z5IyZ1iPWaEnICbZemdGJCJCr1O9eCaZo38gCumT-7ecVk31G7i8fHuHJwfscwK2nor26AMYCSXftaxU5f4dGmenYLF-OjPD2GS1uqDjhtLuplk9Cjf1baYk/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="260" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A full introduction to Edmodo provided by Russel Stannard</span></b>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is is an excellent video tutorial created by <a href="http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/">Russel Stannard</a> in which he walks teacher through a step by step guide on how teachers can get started using Edmodo together with all of its features such as creating a group or class for  students, uploading files, adding comments...and many more.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DZHB6FfRjnQ" width="420"></iframe><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHB6FfRjnQ&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHB6FfRjnQ&feature=youtu.be</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edmodo Help Centre</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a great <a href="https://support.edmodo.com/home#teacher">Help Centre</a> that has screencasts and tutorials to help you with any problem. See </span><a href="https://support.edmodo.com/home#entries/22460840-quick-guides-to-edmodo" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://support.edmodo.com/home#entries/22460840-quick-guides-to-edmodo</a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Wonderful blog posts on using Edmodo</span></strong><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></u></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) <a href="http://reflectionsofeducator.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/edmodo-evernote-my-ideal-ipad-classroom-workflow/" target="_blank">Using Edmodo in the ipad classroom</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) <a href="http://reflectionsofeducator.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/10-reasons-i-love-using-edmodo-in-my-ipad-classroom/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">10 reasons I love using Edmodo in my iPad classroom…</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) </span><a href="http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/08/a-great-edmodo-cheat-sheet-for-teachers.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">A great Edmodo cheat sheet </a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) <a href="http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/06/a-handy-guide-to-everything-teachers.html" target="_blank">A handy guide to everything a teacher needs to know about Edmodo</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5) Russel Stannards two training vidoes on Edmodo</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a) <a href="http://teachertrainingvideos.com/edmodo1/index.html">http://teachertrainingvideos.com/edmodo1/index.html</a><br />b) <a href="http://teachertrainingvideos.com/edmodo2/index.html">http://teachertrainingvideos.com/edmodo2/index.html</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Conclusion</b></span><br />Why not try out using Edmodo as soon as possible? You'll be pleasantly surprised at how user-friendly it is.</span></div>

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