Social Media and Gamification

Tonight in class, we started off by signing up for Edmodo accounts. Edmodo is a social media website for classrooms, teachers can create groups and have their students join the group. Having a whole class in the same group will help them be able to communicate, collaborate, assign work, and hand in assignments. We all joined our "Inct2610" group and will now be able to hand in our assignments for this week through our accounts. After, Emodo we moved onto Twitter. Twitter is another form of social media which allows people to communicate with one other; you can follow people and search topics you may be interested in to see what other people are saying about it. I have my own personal Twitter account and post my own tweets quite frequently back and forth with my friends. However, for class I made a new twitter account where I will post about our class activities and follow my classmates. If I were to choose between these two social media sites for my future classroom I would prefer to use Emodo because I feel as though it has more to offer! For example, on Emodo teachers are able to assign work and students are able to hand in their assignments as well as communicate on a single site while on Twitter you are strictly communicating and viewing other people's posts.

Durring the latter end of class we worked through completing some levels within the Tech Teacher Game. This really was a fun way to gain some more knowledge on the teaching profession and see where everyone ranked amongst the whole class!