So I'm starting over, and starting small. I'm starting with Edmodo.
I've written of my love of Edmodo before, and I still love it. I use it for class announcements, turning in assignments, and I write quizzes that students take in Edmodo. But I'm using a feature that I never really did before - The Edmodo Library. Specifically, I have been making liberal use of the Folders feature, where you can make folders and place documents in them. Then, you can share those folders with your classes.
As you can see, I have folders for my units. I keep things like labs, packets, spreadsheets, and other activities we do in those folders, and students can access them whenever they'd like. I make packets for each unit in some of my classes, and by scanning them in and putting them in my folders, students can print them out if they forget their packet at school or if they lose their packet. I'm also planning on flipping this class this week, so I want to put links to my videos in special folders for each unit. My only wish is that I could make subfolders within each folder; it would be handy to put all of my videos pertaining to water in my Water Unit Resources folder rather than in a separate folder, for example.
But you better believe that, once I get through one year of curriculum with my new-to-me classes, I will be taking my summer to create that whiz-bang stuff. I will be thinking about how I can work around our network issues to use the technology to enhance learning and prepare students for that technological world into which they will be graduating.
Until then, I'll have to make small, manageable steps, with my Edmodo use (and Nearpod use) being the first one. Knowing what I used to be able to do, this is pretty hard for me. But I'll adjust.