A while ago I posted here ("If a teacher had designed Twitter") about a really slick tool called Edmodo. Essentially, Edmodo is a Twitter-like microblogging platform with grouping, calendaring, and ...

A partnership created by Common Sense Media and social learning platform Edmodo is providing teachers with student activities designed to foster responsible use of social media and other technologies.

As I spent more time exploring Edmodo, I realized that it had could have quite a few Twitter-esque uses outside the classroom. Any current users (or Jeff O'Hara, aka @zemote, one of the cofounders of ...

Working in the education field for years in the Chicago area, Jeff O’Hara got frustrated seeing that social networking and sharing sites were blocked in the classroom. This did not seem right to Jeff ...

After spending years working as technicians at public schools, Jeff O’Hara and Nicolas Borg launched Edmodo in 2008 to address what they had come to see as a huge gap in the teacher-student ...