Ten-minute session demonstrating Kahoot to Librarians from HE/FE/secondary schools, and how it can be used in teaching.
Here is a link to the Kahoot that we play https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/e88f72ab-60d6-4d78-8127-63cbf8ddd31a
Battling the Bored: Engaging from the outset with Kahoot!
1. Battling the bored:
Engaging from the
outset with
Kahoot!
presented by John Iona
@jionalib
Image CC: Franck Michel. ‘Gaston is Bored’
2. What is Kahoot?
•Quizzing/surveying tool
•Multiple choice Q&A
•Non-device specific
•Best delivered live/in-the-room
•Go to kahoot.it in a browser
3. Q1: what’s this?
•Start off with a practice question of some
kind
•Maybe something light-hearted, funny(-ish)
•Points for correct answers but this can be
turned off
4. Q2: what type of source is this?
• Test their knowledge – identifying a type of source from the
reference
• Give plenty of time for questions that take thought
• Use questions of this type to see where gaps are
• For this question I used an image of the reference because of
the character count restriction…
• I give students out an individual sheet, to show anything
that needs a closer look at
5. Q3: when you begin research…
•Survey-type questions
•What are student habits, or opinions, on
something you will be teaching on?
•All answers are marked as correct for this
(because it’s set up as a quiz)
•Change your answer allowance time
6. Q4: what is the ft.com?
• How aware are students of key resources in their subject of
study?
• Chance to promote a source or reiterate the importance of
particular database etc
• “… if you haven’t used this one by now I would be
concerned…”
• Follow with a question about the types of information you
might find on this resource
7. Q5: where is the title of the journal?
•Identifying particular elements on a page, or
source
•“Where would you find…”
•Test knowledge or skills
•Give shorter amount of time for some extra
jeopardy...
8. Q6: what is the student using…?
• You can also add a youtube video to your question
• Ask a question for students to answer as they watch
• It will start the answer timer once the video ends but
students can answer while the video plays
• Moves on to next question once everyone has answered…
• If you want them to watch the whole thing then make your
question about something that comes up at the end of the
video.
9. Finally…
• Starter or mid-session activity to:
• Engage and enthuse
• Set up the session and highlight potential gaps
• Break and re-energise
• Plenary to test/refresh learning
• Challenge mode for playing outside of the session (app-only)
• Set as pre-session prep to inform your planning
• Set as homework to test learning and retention
• Statistics for every time you use/play a kahoot… impact/assessment
presented by John Iona
@jionalibImage CC: Franck Michel. ‘Gaston is Bored’
10. Finally…
presented by John Iona (@jionalib)
Image CC: Franck Michel. ‘Gaston is Bored’
"Never"
14%
"Some of the
time"
36%"Most of the
time"
21%
"All of the
time"
29%
When you start any piece of
academic research, is Google
(Scholar) your starting point?
"Never"
"Some of the time"
"Most of the time"
"All of the time"
49%
51%
Q4 What is this source?
correct
incorrect
Editor's Notes
There are times when, you’re about to start a workshop on a Friday afternoon, mid-winter, on referencing and how this can get you better grades and the group give you a look that’s a bit like Gaston’s here… I’m going to show you Kahoot as I think it’s a useful tool to engage students.
If you haven’t heard of it, it is … [explain from slide]
The best way to introduce you to Kahoot, in ten minutes, is to get you playing a Kahoot… so here goes
[next slides, in grey, are prompts to explain each question as we go through the kahoot. Don’t need to be shown]
Once Kahoot is completed then sum up from this slide.
Explain examples of stats taken from previous kahoots.