Socrative - Gathering Feedback in a Flash

We talked a lot about Socrative years ago and thought now would be a good time to revisit what Socrative can do for you and your students. This post will help guide you through the basics of how it works and asking your first questions. Our next post will describe how to use Socrative as a way to start conversations in the classroom.

What is Socrative?
A very fast online tool to ask your students questions on the fly and do something with the answers in a flash. The part I really love is there is literally nothing you need to do ahead of time beyond creating a simple account.

Getting Started
Navigate to Socrative and create an account.

1. This is the name your student will type in when they are answering the questions.

2. A premade exit ticket that consists of three question. Two questions are on the screen and the third is verbally give by the teacher. This allows you to be super flexiable.

3. On the fly, think of a question and click the button.

The following two examples are based upon the premade Exit Ticket and the quick Short Answer.

Premade Exit Ticket Example

Click Exit Ticket to get started.

After you click Exit Ticket this screen will appear. There are no students listed as no one logged in yet. Have the kids Google Socrative Student and the first result is the site they need. See the last screenshot if you need to know the name of the room.

1. Results - when the quiz is live, or accessible to students, you should see a little pulsing radio wave emitting just to the right of the word Results.

2. Results dashboard. Just watch the information appear. You can also toggle off the names so no one can see who said what.

other?

As the students begin to answer you will see information start to populate the screen.

I clicked number two to see what the students were answering.

The Exit Ticket automatically populated this question. I could display this on the board or export it as you will see further down the post.

On the main screen, you will see the finish button, click when you ready to close out the question.

I wanted to see the results so I clicked Get Reports.

I clicked for the results to be emailed to me.

The title in my inbox showed up as reports, look for that.

I opened and downloaded the Excel file to further examine the results.

Like your ELMO but with an iPad (elementary classroom teachers)

I used AirServer to create the infinity mirror effect. We were in a meeting today and Dominic told us about this fantastic idea. As we discussed all things technology he explained one method of using the iPad as a portable ELMO. It was too cool not to share. Step 1 Make sure you have AirServer running on your laptop. 1. Click the Windows key on your keyboard or click the icon in the lower left of your screen. 2. Just start typing AirServer. 3. Click AirServer. Don't see it? Contact technology or your building tech person. Step 2 Connect your teacher iPad to your laptop. 1. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Start by swiping in the bezel, the black plastic part surrounding the screen. 2. Click AirPlay Mirroring. 3. Click your name. Step 3 Open the camera app and instant portable ELMO! Anything you see in the camera's len will be broadcast to the big screen. I just used this method to take a picture of my notebook as a demonstration of how co

Who is emailing me? The Blue Man Group??? (Add an image to your Google account.)

WHY It is always nice to put a face with a name. Sometimes we need a tiny little reminder of what someone looks like because we don't see them very often. Follow these steps to add/change the image associated with your Google account. HOW Open your email. Click your image. It might just be a blue circle if you have not added something already. Click Change . Find an image you like. Your amazing new image will appear. From now on everyone can put a name to a face!

Annotate PDF? How might I do that?

So I have a PDF and I need to edit it. Here is one method that works pretty well for me. Open Word. Click File . 1. Click Open . 2. Click Browse . 3. Find the PDF you want to annotate. 4. Click Open . Click OK when you see this box. Bam! Your PDF now opens in Word. Note: you maybe have to click Enable Editing at the top of the screen. Finished editing and want to turn it back into a PDF? Click File . 1. Click Save As . 2. Click This PC . 3. Pick a location. I usually save things to my desktop. 4. Click Save as type - and choose PDF. 5. Click Save .

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