individual tutoring. Some implementations have substantial face- to-face support, and others have minimal e.g., some flex models
may have face-to-face certified teachers who supplement the online learning on a daily basis, whereas others may provide little face-to-
face enrichment; others may have different staffing combinations; these are useful modifiers to describe a particular Flex model.
3 A La Carte model formerly Self-Blend model—a program in
which students take one or more courses entirely online with an online teacher of record and at the same time continue to have
brick-and-mortar educational experiences. Students may take the online courses either on the brick-and-mortar campus or off-
site. This differs from full-time online learning and the Enriched Virtual model because it is not a whole-school experience.
4 Enriched Virtual model—a whole-school experience in which
within each course e.g., math, students divide their time between attending a brick-and-mortar campus and learning remotely using
online delivery of content and instruction. Many Enriched Virtual programs began as full-time online schools and then developed
blended programs to provide students with brick-and-mortar school experiences. The Enriched Virtual model differs from the Flipped
Classroom because in Enriched Virtual programs, students seldom attend the brick-and-mortar campus every weekday. It differs from
the A La Carte model because it is a whole-school experience, not a course-by-course model.
g. Stages in Designing and Organizing Blended Learning
1 Set the learning materials, and modify or prepare these materials
into materials that can be used for online learning, face-to-face learning, and independent learning.
2 Set the design of blended learning. In this step, the point is to
make a learning plan that contains distance and face-to-face learning components. Therefore, in designing the study there are
some things that should be considered, such as a
How these materials are presented. b
Which materials are mandatory to be studied and which materials are to enrich the knowledge of the learners.
c How learners can access the two learning components. In this
research the learning materials can be directly downloaded from teachers post as well as library teacher at edmodo.
d What the supporting factors are. In this study, researcher
utilized edmodo social media as the supporting factor of online learning process. Then researcher made a class group to classify
students based on their own class, so that it will make the online learning process easier.
e The format of online learning. One of the examples is students
can download and learn the learning materials in advance
before the lesson. In addition, the students can also have discussion in the group, and answer the questions or tasks
provided by the teacher in the edmodo class group. f
Proper Blended learning implementation. g
Setting up the criteria to evaluate the implementation of blended learning. Soekartawi in Husamah 2013:27-29 with
modifications
4. Edmodo a. Definitions of Edmodo
Edmodo is a social media platform that is often described as Facebook for school and can be used for many purpose according to
needs. Edmodo is an interesting application for teachers and students with a social element that resembles Facebook, but there is actually
benefits in this e-learning based education application Rismayanti: 2012. Edmodo can be seen as a Learning Management System
LMS that can facilitate teachers to create and manage their online classes easily Witherspoon: 2011.
Edmodo is an educational website that takes the ideas of a social network and refines them and makes it appropriate for a classroom.
Using Edmodo, students and teachers can reach out to one another and connect by sharing ideas, problems, and helpful tips. A teacher can
assign and grade work on Edmodo; students can get help from the entire class on Edmodo. It is a safe environment. There is no bullying
or inappropriate content, because the teacher can see everything that is posted on Edmodo. Also parents can join the class to bring a level of
transparency that is difficult to achieve without technology. Patrick Cauley
Thus, it can be summarized that edmodo is social media designed as a tool of learning media between teachers with students. Edmodo
can freely be obtained at www.edmodo.com.
b. The Advantages of Edmodo
The advantages of Edmodo according to Shelly Gary 2011:6-45 are:
1 Edmodo can help teachers to give news in the group or give online
tests. 2
Edmodo will also allow students to post articles and blogs which are relevant with class curriculum in accordance with the teacher
request. 3
Teachers can use Edmodo to develop a discussion space where students can communicate with others at the same time.
4 Teachers can also use Edmodo to instruct, to set, and to have
discussion with their students via online at the same time. While according to Charles Wankel 2011: 26 the strengths of
edmodo are: 1
Easy to share files, pictures, videos, and links 2
Upload documents to shared workspaces
3 Send individual or group messages
4 Create group to separate discussions by class or topic
5 Password protection keep spammers and others out
6 Messages not limited to 140 characters
7 Safe environment for younger students
8 Messages are threaded for easier reading
From some experts ’ opinions about the advantages of Edmodo, it
can be concluded that the advantages of Edmodo is that Edmodo acts as tool that helps teacher in teaching, doing interaction with students,
monitoring students’ activities inside the group and conducting evaluations.
c. The Weaknesses of Edmodo
The weaknesses of Edmodo by Pierpaolo Vittorini 2012:40 are: 1
It has no option to send private messages between students, avoid forgetfulness communication between students occurs globally.
2 In the communication part, it has not implemented a chat tool.
While many other social network like Facebook, Tuenti, and Myspace implement a kind of chat area for users.
3 It does not work with photo albums and tags like other social
networks. It works with generic file type, and do not allow the action of tagging them.
4 It does not implement any kind of page in which the user can see
the subject structure index.
