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Learning Contemporary Techniques

In Teaching Practices:

Blackboard and Edmodo

By-Anubhav & Monis Ahmad Khan

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Introduction:“Today’s digital natives hunger for new educational approaches.

Educators are more willing than ever to teach with technology, if

it’s powerful and easy to use.”

Contemporary : happening, existing, living.

Technology : techniques, skills, methods.

Contemporary TechnologiesTechnologies using in present time

Contemporary Technologies enhance learning effectively?

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What Contemporary Learning Makes it Contemporary:

Conventional

Studio

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Contemporary Studio : Flex studio (US)

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“ Contemporary

Technologies

enhance

learning

effectively.”

Flipped Learning

Learning Objects

Smart Software

Virtual Stimulation

3d Printing

Mobile app software

Digital Portfolios

Reflective Practice

Personal Learning Networks

Situated Learning

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Blackboard Learn and Edmodo

These are the two “Contemporary Technologies” teaching applications

offering communication, collaboration, and coaching tools to institutions,

teachers, bloggers as well as professionals.

BLACKBOARD LEARN

EDMODO

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Blackboard Learn:

provides an online teaching and learning environment by providing content management and sharing, online assessments, student tracking, assignment management, and virtual collaboration.

Edmodo:

is a social learning platform for teachers, students, and parents. It is commonly thought of as the Facebook of schools, as called by pupils and teachers alike.

What is Blackboard?

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Blackboard Learn (previously the Blackboard Learning Management System), is a virtual learning environment and course management system developed by Blackboard Inc.

This is a learning management system that provides a learning system for course delivery and management for institutions; a community and portal system for communication; a content management system for centralized control over course content; and a system to record and analyze student assessment results.

NETWORK TRANSACTION ENVIRONMENT

BB Transaction

SYS

BB Community

SYS

BB ONE

NETWORK LEARNING

ENVIRONMENT

BB LEARNING

SYS

BB Community

SYS

BB CONTENT

SYS

CourseInfo LLC and

Blackboard LLC merged in

1997 to form Blackboard

Inc. Blackboard Inc. has 2

product lines: NTE and

NLE

Functions of Blackboard

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Communication: Blackboard Learn provides users with a platform for communication and sharing content.

Announcements: Professors and teachers may post announcements for students to read. These can be found under the announcement tab, or can be made to pop-up when a student accesses Blackboard.

Chat:This function allows those students who are online to chat in real time with other students in their class section.

Discussions: This feature allows students and professors to create a discussion thread and reply to ones already created.

Mail: Blackboard mail allows students and teachers to send mail to one another. This feature supports mass emailing to students in a course.

Content of Blackboard

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Course Content: Course creation, delivery, and

management

- This feature allows teachers to post articles, assignments, etc.

Calendar: Teachers can use this function to post due dates for

assignments and tests.

SafeAssign: Course assessments, grading, and plagiarism

prevention through SafeAssign

Assessments: This tab allows teachers to post quizzes and

exams and allows students to access them via the internet

Grade Center: Teachers and professors may post grades on

Blackboard for students to view.

Assignments-to post and submit assignments

Blogs and Journals: Social learning and Blackboard’s Global

Learning

How does a Teacher

use Blackboard LEARN?

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Log in using University’s URL/user id. Create

Registration. Check your account. Set up Profile.

Create, Record and share your research, writing in

personal, group, course blog

Create Courses/assignments/Teaching units

Create/Check assignments

Create Calender for important course dates

Use SafeAssign for Citing Sources and Avoiding

Plagiarism

Create discussion board for Discussion Forums for

Students

Create Exams/ Quizzes Online

Maintain Grades of Students in Grade Center

BL

PLAN

TEACH

ASSESS

REFLECT

How does a student use Blackboard

LEARN?

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Log in using University’s URL/user id. Create Registration. Check

your account. Set up Profile

Create, share your writings in personal, group, course blog

Check Courses/assignments.

Check Calender for important course dates

Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

Discussion Forums for Students

Give Faculty Feedback

Submit an Assignment

Taking Exams or Quizzes Online

Taking Respondus Exams

View Grades

Embed a YouTube Video

Get Blackboard Learn Help

Advantages/Disadvantages of Blackboard

Learn

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POTENTIAL BENEFITS

1)Increased availability

2)Quick feed back

3)Improved communication

4)Tracking

5)Skill building

6) Saves time

DRAWBACKS

1)Blackboard may be restricted to certain operating systems

2)Blackboard has system inefficiencies

3)cost

What is Edmodo?

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Edmodo is an educational technology and a company

offering communication, collaboration, and coaching tools to teachers, bloggers as

well as professionals. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content,

distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues,

and parents.It is a social learning network

and secure microblogging

platform where teachers and

students can interact and

collaborate online. It has an

interface similar to Facebook,

however it is much more

secure since it is a closed

network. Both teachers and

students can share notes,

links, files and resources with

each other.

What makes Edmodo Unique?

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Secure Learning Network

This powerful app enables the users to become part of a safe network that provides full

privacy. It will guarantee full confidentiality so that one can easily store unique ideas and

class project without worrying.

Nonstop Collaboration

It means that one can instantly connect and get the required information from other

students and teachers.

Boosts Knowledge

This is because by devoting online app in a study session, students can easily understand

complex class topic with assistance of other users.

Organise Your Work

This online app comes with an academic calendar that would enable you to maintain and

track all class assignments in an easy manner. It is observed that students and teachers face a

lot of stress while tracking their class projects

How can a Student use Edmodo?

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Students have to log in with a student account to get the In order to join, they will need to

have a private access code provided by the teacher. The code will enable the student to access

the main page for the classroom. Fortunately, students are not required to enter any

personal information so the site is completely secure. Not only that, but students do not

need to have an email account in order to set up an account. Teachers can then create

subgroups which can eliminate cross posting. When the course is over, the teacher can close

out the network. Later, the teacher can create a new network for the next course.

Students writing projects,class blog.

Role playing,creates students profile for

relevant figures.

Back channel discussion, read aloud, in

class movies,

Professional development events

Extended learning beyond the class room

walls, mobile websites

Language practice, learning foreign

language

Communicate updates or check in with class if absent from the class

Teacher’s lounge

Planning Committees

Tutor connections

Project based learning

Reading critiques

Co-teaching to the other students

Alumina Group

Edmodo for teachers

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SupportiveWe've built Edmodo with teachers, for

teachers.Your feedback defines every feature,

your insight gives life to our community, and your

perspective keeps you and your students at the

center of everything we do.

VersatileWhether you want to create a paperless

classroom, nurture digital citizenship skills,

integrate educational content from Edmodo

Spotlight, or grow your professional learning

network, you can personalize how you use

Edmodo.

InteractiveGive students new ways to engage, participate,

and express themselves. With Edmodo, you can

post discussion topics, conduct polls, award

badges, and more, to foster communication and

make learning social.

ConnectedNeed ideas for a Common Core, Science, or

Spanish lesson? Just ask; our global community

of educators will share resources in minutes. No

matter what your grade level and subject area,

we've got you covered.

Functions of Edmodo

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Communication

Reach, align, and engage teachers, students, and parents from all your schools on one secure

network

Collaboration

Build communities of support that foster teamwork and advocate corrective measures to

improve learning outcomes

Tools

Wonderful Free Templates to Create Newspapers for your Class

Over 50 Learning Theories Explained for Teachers

12 Great Free Keyboarding Games to Teach Kids Typing

Content of Edmodo

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Edmodo Collections

Manage and curate all of your content to help teachers effectively augment their lessons and support student learning objectives

Edmodo PD Tools

Easily create and lead school/district-level, countrywide, and worldwide professional learning communities (PLCs) and professional learning networks (PLNs) to build teacher capacity

o Edmodo Management

Gain greater insight into user activities through a secure, real-time interface with the ability to measure engagement and adoption across the entire deployment at both a micro and macro level.

Case study of edmodo in India

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S N Kansagra School in Rajkot used Edmodo to manage their annual bazaar. The event

- Galaxy Bazaar - Each student pitches in with Rs. 500 for the capital and like any modern

company, all the students take up various roles such as CEO, management, and project

leader. Edmodo started the service to help schoolchildren communicate and collaborate

safely.

Bijal Damani, the social entrepreneurship

teacher who is in-charge of Galaxy Bazaar, says

the bazaar started in 2005 with 28 students

participating. The initiative was a success and by

2009, around 150 students were involved in

managing Galaxy Bazaar. "With that many

students, coordination had become difficult.

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Damani says For an event like Galaxy Bazaar

where we were a team of nearly 120 students, we

needed to be in constant contact with our fellow

students and juniors to guide them," says Kamdar,

"It served as a coordinating platform. so definitely

we used Edmodo constantly and got notifications

on our mobile phones for updates."

When working with her students, Damani used

the app to ensure complete coordination.

"I created several polls for students'

opinions and feedback, which reduced my

work. We also managed to avoid

redundancy," says Damani. "Different

students were no longer approaching the

same sponsor.

Since its inception, Galaxy Bazaar has always

generated a profit. The proceeds go towards

funding the education of underprivileged

students.

Comparison of Blackboard and Edmodo

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Hosted by Blackboard Inc.

Availible On PC/smart phone needs Blackboard Mobile App

colleges/institutions

Parents cannot access independentlyElaborate working

Blackboard Learn

Web based-registration

Availabloe on PC/smart phone

both

Parents can access independently via iTunes/Google PlaySimple navigation

Edmodo

References

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THE BLACKBOARD LEARNING SYSTEM, Peter Bradford, Margaret Porciello, Nancy Balkon,

Debra Backus; published in The Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2007.

Content Library articles on Faculty Resources, www.blackboard.com

Content Library Article, Blackboard Learn; https://en.wikipedia.org

Library article, GetApp Industries; www.getapp.com/industries-software/a/blackboard-learn

Content Library Article, Curtin University;

ctl.curtin.edu.au/teaching_learning_services/blackboard.cfm

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