Teaching with Edmodo

I'd like to thank Oliver, Merle, and Matt for their helpful suggestions and responses to my previous blog! It's so great to be teaching again and have this great resource.

I decided to go with edmodo.com as recommended by Oliver. It was so easy to set up and I was able to test it opening a teacher and student accounts on Firefox and Safari without any problems. Students will probably find it as user-friendly because it resembles Facebook, and it's just as intuitive if not simpler and cleaner. But wait until I start adding video clips.

I checked out Ning, but didn't see how students could upload documents that only I could see. Moodle is something I've always wanted to try, but have trouble figuring out the server and site hosting aspect.