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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30 Days of webtools: #22 Use Edmodo or Obami as free interactive classroom management tools

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">What are Edmodo and Obami? </span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsFJbyFmKy38nPyAPUOan0q5imTchb2fZ6CK58AEBUEzjMsXT9gNqPe5P1nnOrjU5ggFuX9sGlwZDzOnNTOha7BbSZ4VuPuLaiBvj8MuT8po0ZF7hOzDNIFkBlp60i3QnKjPZHc58q2w/s1600/edmodo2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsFJbyFmKy38nPyAPUOan0q5imTchb2fZ6CK58AEBUEzjMsXT9gNqPe5P1nnOrjU5ggFuX9sGlwZDzOnNTOha7BbSZ4VuPuLaiBvj8MuT8po0ZF7hOzDNIFkBlp60i3QnKjPZHc58q2w/s320/edmodo2.JPG" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbcn195zuo0GR4PuwMzBFhvmo6E64ivb0-cwng9-C6Klmhe8DsyqOvEPj5M_J6CH-O5qw4a3t0_ySC47cgD_4ww6KFJu3F6ySiJMWQDQe3Xz8DdnC2UdxnQAScscPChn9_x3i6musVRc/s1600/obami.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbcn195zuo0GR4PuwMzBFhvmo6E64ivb0-cwng9-C6Klmhe8DsyqOvEPj5M_J6CH-O5qw4a3t0_ySC47cgD_4ww6KFJu3F6ySiJMWQDQe3Xz8DdnC2UdxnQAScscPChn9_x3i6musVRc/s320/obami.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both Edmodo and Obami are free classroom management tools that help you as a teacher make your classroom into a community. You would use either one or the other. They provide teachers and students with a secure place to post messages, discuss classroom topics, assign and grade classwork, connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Classroom uses of Edmodu and Obami</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Both have a user-friendly interface which is easy and simple for all to use<br />*There are easy-to-use wizards for creating calendars, pages and managing documents<br />*Teachers can set up and manage small groups for students projects <br />*Students can post notes, files, links, and discuss.<br />*Teachers  can post spelling, maths, research and other homework on Edmodo so that  parents can access it <br />*Students can help each other with homework tasks through using Edmodo <br />*Reading groups could use Edmodo or Obami to role play characters in the book they are reading.<br />*Students can ask questions they may feel silly about voicing in the classroom. <br />*Students can contact the teacher and send messages about homework they might forget to ask during the day. <br />*Edmodo is useful for project-based learning (see Further Reading post below). This would also be the case for Obami.<br />*You could post a document, students could download it, complete it and send it back to you, then you could grade it right online. Students could get instant feedback on graded materials.</span><br /><b><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SchoolNet webinar on Edmodo and Obami</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the recording for the the webinar that took place on Tuesday August 14th at 6pm. Lisa Gair from The Rock Academy spoke about how she uses Edmodo in her classroom, and Siobhan Louw from Somerset House spoke on how she uses Obami in her classroom. NO: There might be  slight gap in Siobhan’s recording as my internet dropped and I had to log in again. Apologies for that.  Here is the link:<br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p78kokkty1y/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p78kokkty1y/</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Slideshare on Edmodo</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lisa Gair has kindly allowed me to share the PowerPoint she used with you.</span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14008475" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11/introduce-your-class-to-edmodo" target="_blank" title="Introduce your class to Edmodo">Introduce your class to Edmodo</a> </b>from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11" target="_blank">Schoolnet SA </a></b></div><b><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Further reading</span></b><br /><a href="http://blog.edmodo.com/2011/05/27/pbl-edmodo-awesome/">http://blog.edmodo.com/2011/05/27/pbl-edmodo-awesome/</a><br /><a href="http://edmodoteacherhub.wikispaces.com/Teaching+Strategies">http://edmodoteacherhub.wikispaces.com/Teaching+Strategies</a> </div>

30 days of web tools Edmodo Obami Tutorials Web tools 30 Days of webtools: #22 Use Edmodo or Obami as free interactive classroom management tools

What are Edmodo and Obami?  Both Edmodo and Obami are free classroom management tools that help you as a teacher make your classroom into a community. You would use either one or the other. They provide teachers and students with a secure place to po…

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