Edmodo Reflection

The number one reason that the fifth grade students liked using Edmodo to publish their writing was that they could have other people, including their friends, read their work. They liked the collaborative writing activity the best. This is where they wrote a paragraph, and we added another, to guide them in a direction with their stories. I personally loved this project! It gave me a chance to work with fifth grade students on their writing skills, and to see how they react to me as a future teacher. I learned that there is a wide range of writing levels in one grade. Some students are already very creative in their writing and others need some guidance. This helps me to realize that when I get out into the classroom that I will have students of all abilities. I will have to learn to accommodate different learning styles and levels, while trying to help each student be the best that they can be. I might implement a collaborative science project in my classroom, where the students would come up with ideas and have another group critique it and give feedback on how to make it better. The students would then create the project incorporating the ideas from the other group. I would then have each child take a picture of their project and post it up on the microblogging site and have the other group comment on them. I would finally have a possible skype session with the students and other group, so the children would have a chance to see who commented on their project and what they think about it.