This post is based around the Teaching tool:
Socrative
Since discovering this tool, I have been using it to create assessments that I hope to use in my teaching. It is a free resource and you can do an astounding amount with it. By creating an account, all of your class can join into your room to do exams, receive feedback as well as much more.
This is a valuable teaching tool as you can create any quiz, add in time frames and when the results come through you can choose how receive the information. With this tool any teacher can become organised with regard to assessments.
Quizzes can be made up of questions of multiple choice, short answers or true and false as shown below. The teacher has control over how many of each question is asked and also how many questions are in the quiz. These quizzes can then be saved for future use.
You can build assessments and see the results instantly, meaning that you, as an educator, can give feedback to students almost immediately regarding their level of understanding of a topic you have taught them. The use of feedback while teaching is very important. Feedback encourages the student to further their learning and also how to accept positive criticism while the information is still fresh in their minds.
The only downside to Socrative I have found is it can only be used for assessment. If there was an option to build up lesson plans in the same way as there is with assessments I believe there would be very little that this tool could not do.
This tool has by far been my favorite to discover and I will definitely be using it as much as possible in my future teachings.
Thanks for reading!
Nicola
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