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Review on Edmodo Edmodo  is an  educational technology company offering  a communication, collaboration and  coaching  platform to  K-12  schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents. Edmodo is very teacher-centric in their design and philosophy: students and parents can only join Edmodo if invited to do so by a teacher. Teachers and students spend large amounts of time on the platform, both in and out of the classroom. Edmodo was founded in 2008 by Nic Borg, Jeff O’Hara and Crystal Hutter, three former school district employees who wanted to put social learning into an education environment. It has received several awards over the years, such as Noodle’s 2015 Best Online Education Tool, 2016 GESS Education Award and the 2015 EdTech Digest Cool Tool Award for its Snapchat tool. Edmodo runs a network of partners th...

Review on Web Quest A web quest is an enquiry-based learning tool which encourages students to become responsible for their own learning. Students are provided with a specific task and the activities to support that task. They are given links to information available on the web which they use to acquire knowledge. A web quest can fit well into a scheme of work – varying from a single lesson’s duration to a series of lessons within a topic. Bernie Dodge of San Diego State University was amongst the first to attempt to define and structure this kind of learning activity: ‘an inquiry-based activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet’. There are numbers of reason why should we use this web quest. I am including some reasons here: They are an easy way to incorporate the Internet into the classroom. No specialist knowledge is needed to either produce or use them. They lend themselves well to grou...