Connected Classroom Community

Connected Classroom Community

Do you want to provide new opportunities for student participation and improve the quality of classroom discussions? Come and discover tools to create digital learning spaces that allow students to interact, respond, and reflect on their learning in various ways.

Please note that these are free websites: Titanpad, Todaysmeet, Padlet, and Edmodo

Titanpad

● Create free collaborative documents that can be worked on without log-ins or user names.

● Example: http://titanpad.com/xwX1Ut6lZ9 (Click this link and respond to the questions.)

Todaysmeet

● Create backchannel chat rooms without log-ins or user names.

● Do you want to embrace the backchannel?

● Example: http://todaysmeet.com/CMSCE815

Padlet

● Create a blank wall where students can post text, links, and drag in files.

● Teachers can adjust levels of security, including making the padlet password protected and moderating posts before they show up on the wall.

● Browse this Padlet of “Ideas for Using Padlet in the Classroom” and then consider posting an idea.

Edmodo

● Free, private web-based learning management system and social networking site (like facebook) that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, assignments, polls, and administer quizzes.

● Introduction to Edmodo video