TAG has Gone Edmodo!

Students, in Ms. Jacks's TAG class, this year are enjoying learning and using the Edmodo program in their daily activities.  This site is where their assignments are posted and are automatically calendared.  Notifications are sent to their parents as assignments are created, as well as when they're late. Students and parents can see when assignments are received, and they can get feedback in order to make corrections on things needing improvement.  It's our blog site, where students are creating higher-level questions, which they post to the group and have on-line discussions about the books they are reading.  They can ask for suggestions from the group when they are having trouble understanding an assignment or need help with an idea.  Edmodo is a safe place to upload links and documents that the students may need to do an assignment, arranged in folders by subject.  Students are able to upload works-in-progress to their virtual "backpack" for them to access at home or school or a homeroom classroom; flashdrives are no longer needed to carry work back and forth.  This safe and secure site has become the TAG group's Teacherweb and Wiki, all in one, in a format that works and looks similar to Facebook. They're having a lot of fun with it in TAG this year!