Creating Online Class Communities
Jennifer DormanDiscovery Education
[email protected]://links.discoveryeducation.com/OnlineClasses
After logging into Discovery Education, select My Classrooms from the top banner.
Click on Create a Classroom to get started.
Review your class.
Create duplicate classrooms if necessary (e.g. different subjects for elementary classrooms, separate classrooms for Reading and Writing in Language Arts blocks, specialized populations for integrated classes, etc.)
Select My Builder Tools to create and assign assignments, writing prompts, quizzes, and assessments to entire classes or to specific students.
Assign any media asset to entire classes or to specific students by selecting Classroom/Students, selecting a class and/or students, and setting assigned and due dates.
Assign any media asset to entire classes or to specific students by selecting Classroom/Students, selecting a class and/or students, and setting assigned and due dates.
Students log into Discovery Education to view assigned content, track progress on completed assignments and assessments, and access bookmarked content through My Content.
Account Level Discovery Education Administrators can go to their My Admin page to import students and manage student account access and configuration.
Admins can download step-by-step instructions for formatting the data and uploading the spreadsheets.
Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that was designed to be a safe alternative to traditional social networks to use in the classroom.
Teachers and students can send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other.
What is Edmodo?
Teachers sign up for accounts, and then create groups.
Each group has a unique code which is distributed by the teacher to the class.
Students then sign up (no email address required) and join the group using the code.
How does Edmodo work?
MicrobloggingPublic Timeline (RSS)Assignments and GradesStore and Share FilesNotifications (SMS)Share Links and EmbedsPrivacy ControlsClass CalendarSubscribe to Feeds
Features
The new Share tab will provide users with a direct URL link to the media asset.
This link can be posted online.
Posting Discovery Education Media
Adding to the Public Group Timeline
Only those items that the teach shares to the public timeline will be viewable by people outside the class.
Bookmark
Public or Private
Share to a Group
Post to a List
Broadcast on Twitter
Annotations and Tags
What are Diigo Educator Accounts?
These are special premium accounts provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators.
You can create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks (and student email addresses are optional for account creation)
Students of the same class are automatically set up as a Diigo group so they can start using all the benefits that a Diigo group provides, such as group bookmarks and annotations, and group forums.
Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so that only teachers and classmates can communicate with them.
Ads presented to student account users are limited to education-related sponsors.
What are Diigo Student Accounts?
Student accounts are Diigo accounts created by approved teachers through their Teacher Console.
Classmates in the same class are automatically added as friends with one another to facilitate communication, but students cannot add anyone else as friends except through email.
Students can only communicate with their friends and teachers. No one except their friends can send message, group invite, or write on their profile wall.
Student profiles will not be indexed for People Search, nor made available to public search engines.
Diigo Group Features
Shared group bookmarks – sort by tags, date, and users
Group forum
Widgets – tagrolls and linkrolls
Group auto blog post
Security Settings – Under 13
• Under 13 accounts – students are unable to customize their profiles (no image uploads, etc.)
Teacher Console
• The Teacher Console will appear in your profile list• http://www.diigo.com/teacher_entry/console
Convert Existing Groups
• Open the group• Click "manage group" • Click “group overview”• Under group details, click "edit" • Change the category to
"Education - K12" • The group will be upgraded to a
"class group" with ad-free status, secure student accounts, and will appear within the Teacher Console
Ning Network Features:Member profile pages
Individual blogs with public and private post and comment settings
Threaded forums
Chat rooms
Share music, photos, and video
Privacy management settings
Step 1: Name Your Network
Step 2: Describe Your Network
Step 3: Select Features
Step 4: Customize Your Network’s Appearance
Step 5: Set Network Preferences in Manage Network
Step 6: Apply for Ad Removal for 7-12 Educational Networks
Select a name and URL address for your Ning network.
Note: The URL must be at least 6 characters long.
Decide if your network should be public or private
Create a tagline that will display on your network banner
Describe the purpose of your network
Select tags, language, and country
Select features for your network and place them in the columns.
Educational networks for students over the age of 13 can apply to have advertisements removed from their network.
Add additional tabs for other websites.
Create sub-tabs and decide which categories of users can access the tabs.
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1. Visit http://help.ning.com/ and select Contact Us2. Sign into Help with your user name, password, and network URL3. Complete the form as indicated below and submit.
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