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An abrupt growth in the Microblogging activity is experienced in the past few years. People prefer instant short messages over long boring emails. Sizable Internet users are addicted to it and it has become a part of their social networking. Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca and Plurk are some micro blogging platforms with Twitter ruling the entire empire. Usually, we use it for fun and amusement but it can be used for some meaningful purpose. Here comes Edmodo, A twitter for educational bodies.
Launched at TC50, Edmodo is built by some scholastic people with futuristic vision. The service is designed for teachers and students who are in search of a platform where they can easily create, share or ask important links or questions. Teachers can instantly share a new announcement or post an assignment whereas students can ask queries, and help their classmates.
The service can revolutionise the old-fashioned trait of teachers and students interaction. It lets you create groups, alerts or assignments and allows you to send a note with a link or a file to any teacher, student or a group.
Edmodo allows you to maintain strict privacy rules. If a bad guy signs up for a Student account, the site will ask for a specific code given by the instructor and thus an illegitimate user can never intrude the service. The code is generated on initiating a group.
The site is built by adopting simplicity. One of the main advantages of micro blogging is, people can interact with thousands of users in a real time. Sites like Edmodo, will certainly help teachers to interact with their hundreds of students and at the same time , it will help students to ask concern questions and homework queries with their teachers and fellows.
Twitter’s prolific popularity has gained everyone’s attention. Services like Yammer has already adopted its basic strategy of asking a simple question to enhance Business productivity. While sites like Edmodo, clearly shows that it can be used even in the more eloquent purpose i-e studies.
