I used a series called "This is Awesome" on my OPRF and Leyden Blogs to share the curricular, pedagogical or EdTech finds within the learning community...
“This is Awesome” with J.P. Coughlin: Socrative
The What: Teaching Strategy/Digital Resource/Technology Tool: Socrative
The How: Usage
Students are taking tests and quizzes on Socrative.
The Why: Awesomeness
Students are taking tests and quizzes on Socrative.
The Why: Awesomeness
Using the Chromebooks,
students are able to access all of our work from the week (requiring them
to navigate our class website, their Google Drive, and study guides), which is
super easy with the touchscreen and the simple navigation of the Chromebooks.
The
Pitch: So What?!?
- Test questions come up one
at a time, are big and easy to read, and you can add images to your
questions
- Socrative grades multiple
choice and True/False questions for you and sends you very detailed
reports in usually under ten minutes
- The feedback you get back is
instant. It is similar to Mastery Manager feedback where it gives you
whole class feedback on each question.
- Since I teach classes where
usually about half of the room is SPED students, and many of those
students have accommodations of "No Scantron," scantron tests
have never been an option for me.
- If you want to give the
students their test back, you can simply email them a PDF of their answer
sheet which also contains the correct answer.
- It is pretty awesome to have
a paperless environment for these tests.
