Inquiry & Vocabulary Assignment Edmodo is a free and social-networking styled, educationally designed, cloud based, learning management system (LMS) for teachers, students, and schools. Edmodo provides classroom communities of students and their teachers a safe and easy way to connect and collaborate. Edmodo offers a real-time online platform to exchange ideas, share content, as well as access homework, grades and school notices. The Edmodo software application is an online service. So, to access Edmodo, students and teachers need only a computer, a browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Chrome, Safari) and an internet connection. There are also iPhone and Android phone apps for Edmodo. Why Edmodo? From the www.edmodo.com website, Edmodo is used so a community of students and teachers can share, communicate and learn together at a distance wherever they are (as long as they have access to the internet). Equally importantly, it takes little effort for schools and teachers with limited time and/or resources to get it set up. Edmodo is hosted online (so you don't need extra equipment, software, or tech support staff to run it). It is free of charge, user-friendly, and easy to learn. This means that Edmodo gets used by students and teachers at very low risk of wasting school time or money. Currently, over 32 million teachers and students connect safely in Edmodo classrooms, collaborating on assignments, and discovering new resources together online. Edmodo Vocabulary: Write the definitions for the following Edmodo terms using Google to assist you in finding them. 1. social networking service __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ [Find 2 examples of social networking websites: __________________ __________________ ] 2. cloud computing _________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ 3. learning management system (LMS) ________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ [Give 2 examples of learning management system (LMS) websites: _____________________ ____________________ ] 4. real-time computing ______________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ 5. user-friendly __________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________