Media+Specialist's+Role



**__ Edmodo serves as an excellent tool for collaboration __**

Media specialist can collaborate with teachers by connecting with their edmodo sites. Media specialists can view other teachers' edmodo calendars to see upcoming units/projects and can send messages with related links, files, and other resources that might aid their instruction or student assignments.

Media specialists may promote edmodo by using their own edmodo site with students and by sharing it with teachers at a faculty meeting or at a professional development workshop.

Media specialists can use edmodo with students to share sites and resources, to post information about upcoming events at the media center, carry on book discussions, answer student questions, etc. in order to get students more involved in the media center (Standards for the 21st Century Learner: 1.1.9, 2.1.5, 3.1.2, 3.2.2).

Using edmodo to collaborate with both teachers and students helps to market the media center's resources, as well as fulfill the media specialist's roles of teacher and instructional partner (American Library Association, 1998).