I signed up for my first social networking site just for this class and had not been a member before, due to the reasons I have listed below on my blog for “Thing 18: Social Networking”. Perhaps it has a lot to do with wanting to keep a smaller footprint out in cyberspace and not have too much information out about myself (maybe it is just being in the military too long and the training I’ve had to keep my personal information carefully guarded). I have looked at “Ning” before and have joined “Edmodo”. I clicked on “TeacherPop” but didn’t really see any great advantage over a blog (the one advantage being other people can add things almost like Wiki page, so I guess this is a merge between a Wiki page and a blog). I joined Edmodo because I saw a little more classroom application in using this site. This would be great to set up a site for your whole class to share a calendar, post assignments, and include links to websites. Parents could get on the site and see assignments, the calendar, and post questions also (at least I think they can – I think you would just have to give them the code). Assignments can be turned in via Edmodo, graded and returned back to the students with a grade. Students that had questions about an assignment could post a question. Resources for class project could be listed under the library. You can send messages and assignment to individuals or groups (you could sent information just to the group working on a Civil War project). The term of agreement require you to keep consent form signed by each parent on file (and provide them to the company upon request) and that teachers have the permission of the school or district before using the service. I would recommend reading some of the testimonials (especially read the one by a 5th grade teacher, Robert Miller. The special needs students and the one on small group collaboration were also good to spark the imagination).
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