Ready,Set, Record Book! A 4-H Leaders’ Quickstart to Record Booking with Edmodo Lynette H. Bikos, Ph.D. 4-H Volunteer, Snohomish County 4-H/Washington State Electronic Record Book Development Team Professor of Clinical Psychology, Seattle Pacific University OR Screencast available at:

Welcom 4-H leaders & volunteers! We will… Set up individual Edmodo accounts for 4-H leaders/volunteers Demonstrate features of the Edmodo program that can be used for project, club, or program business. Learn how to locate, coach-to-mastery, and give feedback on RB assignments. More information about Edmodo is available in the Edmodo manual

Setting up “Teacher” Accounts Edmodo was created for schools – 4-H leaders/volunteers enroll as “teachers”; 4-Hers as “students” – Everyone belongs to “districts, groups” This screencast is based on Snohomish County, WA, if you live elsewhere, you will want to work with your RB Administrator to retrieve the proper codes. – In the meantime, feel free to temporarily join the Snohomish County, WA “district” and use the codes for RB Training: 4f8x52 Permanent RB training: xy3j3i The Edmodo program locks/changes these on a regular basis.

Setting up Leader/TeacherAccounts: Go to

Setting up Teacher Accounts Title is optional, but may help 4-Hers recognize you as a leader Include First, Last name The teacher-role REQUIRES an address Enter your password ONCE (write it down)

Setting up Teacher Accounts You will be prompted to find your school district

Setting up Teacher Accounts You can personalize your profile with a 4-H appropriate clip-art or picture of yourself At the bottom of the page, leaders are invited to create a personal URL. There is no need to do this.

Setting up Teacher Accounts There is also no need to join learning communities.

If you want to use the group for RBing, please don’t create your own groups (just yet)…

When you first join you will be a “teacher” with read-only privileges. Interacting with youth on their RB assignments requires “co- teacher” privileges. The group’s owner (ideally, your RB Admin) can give you this “promotion.” Joining Groups

Interacting with Group Members

Record Booking The 4-H Record Book (RB) is completed through a series of assignments. Find them under the heartbeat at the top of your Edmodo screen. Scroll to the bottom of the assignments to complete the first: The“4-H Introduction.”

RB Assignments Assignments in the RB 4-H Introduction 3 SMART goals (required) 9 optional SMART goals Quarterly financial updates Monthly quiz- updates

Coaching a SMART goal to mastery This young 4-Her wrote an appropriate 4-H goal that does not meet the SMART qualities. The leaders’ challenges is to help the her make it SMART.

Coaching a SMART goal to mastery You can lead 4- Hers to goals with SMART qualities through age/development ally appropriate conversation and questions. This also contributes to a sense of belonging.

Coaching a SMART goal to mastery Depending on the age/development al stage of the youth, you may ask them to put all the elements into a single, SMART goal. Or not.

Scoring/Evaluation Leaders may revise assignment scores after it is revised by the 4- Her. Moticons and badges are also motivating ways to provide feedback on RB assignments and other 4-H involvements.

SMART goals become Goal Stories …and goal stories lead to positive youth outcomes

RBing: Monthly Updates Monthly quizzes remind 4-Hers of four things you should do each month: Updating SMART goals Changing goals Updating financial records Adding pictures or interacting with others on the wall Find each month’s quiz on the wall by scrolling down.

Soooooooo much more… Resources for Financial Record Keeping and other materials are found in group folders and/or the library. Co-teachers can add your individualized materials to these folders.

Still more… Refer to the “Ready, Set, Record Book!” members’ screencast for information on – Financial Record Keeping – Permanent Record Booking Refer to the RB Manual for other topics such as… – Using the calendar/planner – Surveys – Administrator tools and considerations The Edmodo help pages are also a fabulous resource for the technical aspects of the program

Happy RBing! Edmodo RBs are NEW! You can expect success and challenges! Share your feedback with me,