Stanfill,+Reflections,+Round+1

=Reflections-Using Edmodo=

After practicing responding to several teacher-generated responses, the students will create one reflection question to pose to another student. || By the students ability to log onto edmodo account, read and respond appropriately to the question. ||
 * **Title**: ||< Reflections-Using Edmodo ||
 * **Subject**: ||< Language Arts ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 7th ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< Two 30 minute lessons ||
 * **Summary:** ||< Students will log onto edmodo account and write a personal reflection based on their genre writing ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< Students will log onto the class edmodo site and initially respond to teacher generated reflection questions.
 * Objectives: ||< * To know the mechanics and educational value reflecting on a piece of writing? ||
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Resources: ||< * Netbook/IPAD
 * Edmodo account group code ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || Please share what went well, what was challenging and what you might tweak or modify for your next round....

Initially I wanted the students to create a 'LiveJournal' because i liked the name and it spoke to an online journal feeling i wanted to create. After viewing and playing around with it, I found there were too many opportunities for me to loose control (too many little things i had to to manage). I eventually decided to use Edmodo because I (and the students) was familiar with it. I am still not completely happy with the Edmodo-look. Will continue to tweak. ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * www.edmodo.com ||

Discussion:
Use the Embed Widget tool to add a Discussion Area widget. Bump the number to 100. This will take the comments from the discussion tab and add them to the bottom of the page. This will encourage teacher reflection and modification.