Creating Online Class Communities

1. Creating Online Class Communities Jennifer Dorman Discovery Education Jennifer_Dorman@Discovery.com http://links.discoveryeducation.com/OnlineClasses

2. Creating Online Class Communities • Discovery Education • Edmodo • Diigo • Ning

3. http://www.discoveryeducation.com/

4. After logging into Discovery Education, select My Classrooms from the top banner. Click on Create a Classroom to get started.

5. Name your class Set the start and end dates

6. Select students from your school/district roster and/or add new students.

7. 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.)

8. Select My Builder Tools to create and assign assignments, writing prompts, quizzes, and assessments to entire classes or to specific students.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Students log into Discovery Education to view assigned content, track progress on completed assignments and assessments, and access bookmarked content through My Content.

12. Account Level Discovery Education Administrators can go to their My Admin page to import students and manage student account access and configuration.

13. Admins can download step-by-step instructions for formatting the data and uploading the spreadsheets.

14. Microblogging for the “Classes”

15. 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?

16. 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?

17. Microblogging Public Timeline (RSS) Assignments and Grades Store and Share Files Notifications (SMS) Share Links and Embeds Privacy Controls Class Calendar Subscribe to Feeds Features

19. Creating Groups Step 1: Click Create Step 2: Share the group code with students

20. Adding Assignments

21. Accessing Assignments

22. Tracking Assignments

23. Adding Notes

24. Adding Hyperlinks & Widgets

25. Posting Discovery Education Media The new Share tab will provide users with a direct URL link to the media asset. This link can be posted online.

26. Uploading Files

27. Adding Alerts

28. Adding Events

29. Calendar

30. 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.

31. Public Group Timeline

32. Setting Group Activity Notification Set Twitter, email, or SMS alerts in Settings

34. Bookmark Public or Private Share to a Group Post to a List Broadcast on Twitter Annotations and Tags

35. Highlight Text

36. Add Sticky Notes

37. Diigo Educator Accounts www.diigo.com/education

38. 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.

39. 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.

40. Diigo Tutorials and Support http://sn.im/diigotutorial

41. Diigo Groups

42. Diigo Group Features Shared group bookmarks – sort by tags, date, and users Group forum Widgets – tagrolls and linkrolls Group auto blog post

44. Security Settings – Under 13 Under 13 accounts – students are unable to customize their profiles (no image uploads, etc.)

45. Teacher Console The Teacher Console will appear in your profile list http://www.diigo.com/teacher_entry/console

46. Create a Class Group

47. Class Groups

48. 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

49. Add Members

50. Adding Students WITHOUT E-Mails