I have finally found a Web 2.0 tool that is truly an all-in-one place for classroom interaction. Schoology does everything a social networking site like Facebook does but adds the ease of grading and other school related activities. The video above does a good job explaining the features and benefits.
Setting up an account is easy. Complete your name, email address, and your school name, and once you get a confirmation email, your account is active. Also like Facebook, Schoology is free.
I am going to test and use this to teach summer school. It will serve me well to practice with this technology before I am able to use it in my classroom during the school year.
I will also be able to use it for action research. The ability to post assignments, grade, blog, and collaborate makes this program one of the best I have seen for teachers.
Wow this is really a great find! This opens up all sorts of possibilites in my classroom. I teach at a fairly notorious urban high school, so we don't have much in the way of software but this will be a great tool. This blog had an excellent layout as well. I'm walking away with quite a good deal of information about this site.
ReplyDeleteYou still have the coolest blog out there. Thanks for sharing about schoology. I think out of all of the tools, this is the one that I will use the most. It has everything I need and is user friendly and appealing to the students because of how similar it is to facebook.
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