Socrative

Socrative - This program is a free student response system that works like other clicker systems (SMART response), but it is a web based digital method of assessment. You can use it online and there is an app (one for teachers and one for students) that can be used as well. What is so neat about Socrative is that it can be used on ANY device with web access - iPad, desktop/laptop, smartphone, iPod Touch, just to name a few. Signing up for an account is free and easy, and getting students connected is very quick and simple - all they need is your room number (which is given when you sign up)!

You can assess students three different ways: you can give them quick, one question quiz before, during, or after a lesson to do a "temperature check", you can choose an Exit Ticket (some call it an Exit Slip), or you can create and give a Quiz. You can choose to have the assessments be student paced (they work at their own pace) or teacher paced (they go at your pace all together). You can see live results of student work right on your screen. Best of all, you can have a report emailed directly to your email address as soon as the assessment has ended or it can be downloaded. Instant results - who doesn't like that?

You can create quizzes inside of Socrative itself, or you can create and import a quiz using a template they've provided for you! You can even share your quizzes with other teachers, so you can share the workload. Check it out!

Classroom Applications:
* Formative/Summative assessment of content
* Exit slip to check the understanding of a focus lesson.
* Anonymous (honest) opinions about content in the classroom.
* Daily quizzes for grades

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Thank you to everyone who read and commented on our blog in February. Congratulations to Erica M. of NPES who won a prize when her name was randomly drawn from the February comments. She was awarded $10.00 to spend!   

There’s an opportunity to win a special prize by submitting a comment!

To register for our next drawing:

·         Click the comment link underneath one of the posts & select anonymous.

·         Type at least one way you can use (or have already used) the information from the post in your classroom.

·         Type your first name, last initial and your school within the comment post.

·         All the names of those who comment in February will be placed in the “hat”.

·         Our next drawing will occur the end of March!

·         This drawing is open only to elementary teachers in Lexington One.

List Selector

What do you do when you need to pick out 4 students randomly to do something in your classroom or you want to put your students into groups randomly?

List Selector is a great FREE app which allows teachers to randomly select a student (or students) from their class list or randomly put students into groups.

Teachers enter lists of their students into the app. Then the app can choose and display the names of individual students, several students ,or randomly group students by 2's, 3's, 4's or whatever size the teacher needs.