3. Socrative Briefly
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Socrative Room 622136
• Easy to use as a free app or free in a mobile browser.
• Its user experience encourages playful engagement.
• You can validate my claims by using Socrative.
• Socrative presents Multiple Choice Questions well.
• Track results with Excel or textual analysis.
Presented by Bernie Goldbach as a Gasta during the 2016 Irish Learning Technology Association Conference in Dublin on May 25, 2016. CC-by-SA 4.0. This presentation requires audience participation in Socrative Room 622136.
Sharing observations after using Socrative with 250 students earning degrees in business, creative multimedia, digital animation and sports management. I’ve blogged about some of the conclusions at http://www.insideview.ie.
The effective pedagogy of Socrative has been reviewed by peers in other channels.
Free to use with an intuitive UI.
Playful engagement works well.
Plan to use Socrative Room 622136 during this presentation.
Browse to the mobile site on any platform.
Check out @Topgold http://slideshare.net/Topgold for this presentation.
Use the room number first and then your name or a pseudonym.
I run my activities across week-long periods.
Space Races are anonymized students or teams attempting quick answers to questions.
The MCQs are challenging.
Discover weak concepts or bad questions by looking at the red rectangles on screen.
You should remove the pressure to perform and eliminate any possibility of data privacy compromise.
I normally save to dashboard and reopen with Excel.
I ensure MCQ validity and reliability by cross-referencing Socrative results.
Most of my Socrative usage happens outside of the classrooms.
I normally save to dashboard and reopen with Excel.
Irish students learn ways to read subtleties in questions.
This assessment strategy easily fits into Moodle.
You can participate by going to Room 622136 at http://b.Socrative.com
Green rectangles show strongest qualities. Scores offer easy ways of adding up peer commentary. An Excel cross-check provides greater granular assessment of peer reviews.
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