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I have a confession. I have no idea what Edmodo is. I know that it has “Ed” in it so I am assuming that it is for education, but other than that, I have no idea what it is or how it works.
With that being said, I have had a few teachers in my school starting to use themselves and with students and have had nothing but awesome things to say about it.
I also remember clearly drawing an guideline of the tools we would use in our school and this was not in the list! (Drop.io was and now it is gone. Lucky we can use GE.TT for essentially the same thing.) We were going to use Google Apps, Wordpress, and Twitter. That’s it! What happened? (I bet Twitter had something to do with this.)
So it seems that our teachers are going out and learning from other educators around the world about some of the cool tools that we can use to connect and learn and (gasp) they are using them at school! This sounds like some crazy Stephen Johnson stuff:
We can think more creatively if we open our minds to the many connected environments that make creativity possible. (Stephen Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From)
Admittedly, I am kind of ecstatic. Teachers are trying new things on their own and showing me that they are also learners. Even more importantly, they are open to learning from others outside of the building. I am blessed on my staff that our teachers work together collaboratively and do some amazing things as a team, but it is kind of cool that they are not limited to our school, our division, or even our country. I have never really understood why administrators have limited their teachers to only certain tools, especially when they are free. When you are running the school budget, free=awesome.
Our teachers are drawing outside of the lines and I love it.
