I have been looking for a way to create a community that my Tech students and HP Math students can be involved in so I chose Edmoto for this activity. I have gone back and forth on my thoughts about virtual communities. I would love for there to be a sort of "Facebook for kids" and I have found a few:
Kids Social Network Scuttlepad Kidzworld
Each one is well monitored but I haven't completely decided my purpose for introducing kids to online communities. Do I want it to be strictly educational? Social? Both? There are a number of issues that surround this, including the possibility for bullying and leaving some kids out because they don't have internet access. Edmoto seems to be a sort of educational twitter from what I can tell. I love Twitter but found it difficult to use with my Technology students because I only see them once a week. For the way I would use it, Twitter works better for kids I see daily. My nephew's class in Colorado tweets up a storm and it's fun.
I plan to spend some time playing around on Edmoto and getting to know it better. Hopefully, it will be just the platform I am looking for! Here's the link: Ms. Wolf's Edmoto
Wow, thanks for posting some other sites. Maybe Emily and I will add them as choices for next year's summer camp! I'm glad Edmodo will be a useful site for you to try. It's a great professional resource for teachers, too. Keep me posted on how it works for you with your students. I'd love to try something like this with my upper elementary classes!
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