Need free social networking site for class projects (not facebook or myspace)

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Permalink Reply by Ben Stafford on February 5, 2011 at 10:17am

Try Edmodo

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Permalink Reply by Doug Walker on February 5, 2011 at 12:34pm

Look at Edmodo. You can create a private domain with their service for free. It is very similar to facebook. www.edmodo.com.

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Permalink Reply by Erin Klein on February 5, 2011 at 11:14pm

 

http://www.edmodo.com/

 

Edmodo is a free, secure site for social networking.  It uses the same format as facebook, so it's quite easy to get use to ... the kids pick it right up!  :)

 

Also, we use weebly blogs.  I like this because I can set the blog to 'approve first' before I post comments. 

 

Best of luck!  :)

 

Erin Klein

http://www.kleinspiration.com/

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Permalink Reply by David Dean on February 7, 2011 at 2:29pm

Here are the three FREE best private social networking sites for classrooms that you will find in my opinion!!  I personally favor Schoology. 

 

 

Schoology  

https://www.schoology.com/home.php

 

Fridge

http://frid.ge/

 

Edmodo

http://www.edmodo.com/

 

 

 

 

www.classoftech.blogspot.com

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Permalink Reply by Dagmar on February 8, 2011 at 8:44am

Great responses, everyone! I'm ready to explore these sites.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Shawn Storm on February 8, 2011 at 11:52am

Edmodo is great. Join the language arts group on there - over a thousand teachers sharing ideas.

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Permalink Reply by Katy Scott on February 8, 2011 at 3:41pm

The more I use Edmodo, the more I love it -- you can post assignments, and students can turn them in. You can post grades, and there's an internal library that keeps track of every link and document shared in the class.

 

I wrote a blog entry a while back with some ideas on how to use it in the classroom, and there's also info on using Elgg and Ning for social networking: http://digitaldollar.edublogs.org/2010/03/22/harness-the-power-of-s...

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Permalink Reply by Hattie Delgado on March 6, 2011 at 3:29pm

 I feel so lucky to have found this website through my technology class at the university I attend.  I am eager to explore Edmodo and see what things the social networking site has to offer.

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Permalink Reply by Zach Vander Veen on March 9, 2011 at 6:57am

If you'd like to go the route of setting up your own homegrown social networks (via shared hosting or personal server), I'm a big fan of 

• Elgg: http://www.elgg.org/
• Buddypress: http://buddypress.org/ (this is an offshoot of wordpress...which is probably one of the best open source programs out there)

 

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Permalink Reply by Sal P on March 9, 2011 at 9:56am

I would try http://Enterthegroup.com. It's free and you can do social networking, virtual classrooms, group projects plus a bunch of other things like blogging, to-do lists, calendars etc.

I think it depends on how old your students are. For younger kids Edmodo is good, but for high school and beyond Enterthegroup.com is better and more practical.

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Permalink Reply by Mayra Soto on March 9, 2011 at 9:42pm

Maybe you can try thinkquest.

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Permalink Reply by George Grachis on March 10, 2011 at 7:38am

Hi check out Edmodo it was just featured in eSchool news... Our District is using it, we are also moving to Google Apps!

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I can't even get it free from the publisher!  I just purchased several copies for my family...

 

 

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