This is my presentation at the HKIEd on June 18, 2013 about the experience of using Edmodo with a group of teachers

1. 運用Edmodo作為
發展老師電腦素養的工具
Mike H. L. Chui
mikechui@ied.edu.hk
數學的探究學習與綠色及雲端運算環境的電子學習
June 18, 2013

2. What Computer Literacy (CL) elements involve?
• Key module content
• Search engines (search operators/ image
searching techniques)
• Word processing
• Chinese input method
• Photo retouching
• Sound recording and editing
• Presentation application
• Key assignment
• Creating a Web site and learning package for
pre-school children

3. Why Edmodo?
• Facebook for school – microblogging
• No advertisement
• Support tag (for post)
• Support Google Drive sharing
• Notification by email (like RSS)
• Teacher: Group and Sub-group creation
• Student: No sign up
• Post supports Unicode characters (by copy-and-paste from
word processor)
• Subscribe professional communities (i.e. Discover)
• iOS and Android apps available
• … and more by your exploration
Reference: http://help.edmodo.com/

4. Edmodo screenshot #1

5. Edmodo screenshot #2

6. Edmodo screenshot #3

7. Edmodo screenshot #4

8. Edmodo screenshot #5

9. Encountered limitations
• Cannot rename uploaded file
• Chinese folder name  ok
• Chinese filename  After unloaded (中文教案.doc
will be renamed to 1.doc … unpredicted filename!)
• For English filename, “1” will added to the re-
uploaded file
• For Chinese filename, filename is unpredicted to
the re-uploaded file

10. Interactive BYOD session
Teacher Participants
 Sign in http://www.edmodo.com
 Subscribe/ Unsubscribe a
Community (demo)
 Create a Group with group code
(e.g. xd8u9h)
 Show created folder and uploaded
file
 Create Assignment/ Quiz/ Poll
 Go to http://www.edmodo.com
 Click on I’m a student button
 Downloading file
 Submit Assignment (i.e. Turn In)
 Post Quiz
 Post Poll

11. Q & A
Thanks for your participation!