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Your Online Classroom. www. edmodo.com. By: Tiffaney Lavoie, KEDC tiffaney.lavoie@kedc.org. Your Turn to Create a Teacher Account. www.edmodo.com. First Things First : Become a member in my RMTW group. www. edmodo.com. My group code is:.
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Your Online Classroom www.edmodo.com By: Tiffaney Lavoie, KEDC tiffaney.lavoie@kedc.org
Your Turn to Create a Teacher Account www.edmodo.com
First Things First: Become a member in my RMTW group www.edmodo.com My group code is: No emails required!
RMTW Edmodo Resources Find helpful documents inside the “Edmodo resources” folder on the RMTW group page
Next Step: Create Groups Groups = Classes Create as many groups as needed
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Ways to Incorporate Edmodo • Posting Assignments • Parent and Student Communication • Authentic Audience • Peer Reviews, whole class discussion • Platform for Lesson Delivery • Formative Assessment
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The Camping Trip Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Add money to the thousands 2. Critique the rationale of other students 3. Identify and enumerate necessary items for a camping trip 4. Present a rationale for their decisions to purchase various items needed for survival Effective use of Blogger and Google Search ·Lerman, James, and Ronique Hicks. "Lesson Plans." Retool your school: the educator's essential guide to Google's free power apps. Eugene, Or.: International Society for Technology in Education, 2010. 227-229. Print.
Bulging Backpacks: Scatter Plots How Blogging Can Be Used: 1. Pre-Assess understanding of scatter plots by having students post comments to an initial question 2. Allow the class to work in groups and once their scatter plot is created, have them take a picture with their mobile device (or a digital or document camera) and post the picture to the blog using the email posting address. Have other groups comment to the image post on what they observe and how it compares to the scatter plot they created 3. As an exit slip, use an online polling website as a formative assessment tool and embed the question into a blog post "Bulging Backpacks." Math Solutions. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2011. <www.mathsolutions.com>.
Fun with Baseball Stats Students will work with fractions, decimals and percentages using baseball statistics Students will recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics "Illuminations: Fun with Baseball Stats." Illuminations: Welcome to Illuminations. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2011. <http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L257>.
Multiplying Binomials: Three methods FOIL Box Distributive Blogging Project: Have students break into groups, with each group viewing a different PowerPoint so that all three methods are explored. Have the students re-create the method the explored with a new problem and be prepared to present it to the group As the teacher, publish a post asking which method they feel is easiest or "clicks" with them. Students will respond in the form of a comment. Be sure they support their opinion
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