28 March 2009 29 Comments

Enhancing communication with Edmodo

Enhancing communication with Edmodo

This week, I’ve been playing with Edmodo. If you’re not familiar with the site, it defines itself as ‘a private communication platform for teachers and students’. I’ve also heard it being labelled as ‘Twitter for Schools’. However, Twitter is a public system (with the ability to make individual messages private) whereas Edmodo is 100% private [...]

18 August 2008 2 Comments

Superclubs – Social Networking for primary children

Superclubs – Social Networking for primary children

Superclubs Plus is a fantastic site, which you really should look at. If you’ve never heard of it before, it is (as far as I know) one of the only safe, protected areas where primary-aged children can communicate online. It gives children access to a wide range of online tools which, in my experience, they all enjoy [...]