Socrative is an online tool that allows instructors to engage large groups of students, assess their learning through questions, and easily view and download results while maintaining student anonymity. The document discusses how Socrative can be used in lectures to start discussions, check student understanding, and make sessions more fun. It provides examples of questions asked in a lecture about the film Jaws, showing the variety of student responses received, from brief answers to longer analyses. The document concludes by asking students to consider what Jaws is really about according to different scholarly interpretations, demonstrating how Socrative can prompt higher-level thinking.

1. Using Socrative to
engage large groups
Presentation by
Ludo
Sébire
Faculty Librarian
For Arts,
Creative
industries and
Education
11th June 2018

2. What is Socrative?
• Online tool to engage students
• You can assess students’ learning
• Easy to see and download results
• No private data is required
• You can use smartphones, tablets, PCs…

3. Photo by Antenna on Unsplash

4. • Engaging students in discussions
• Providing a tool to check that they
have learnt something
• Adding fun to the session
• Getting instant feedback
Using Socrative in lectures
• Visual Culture
• Education
• Filmmaking
• […]

5. Go to
b.socrative.com
Select student login
Room: UWEACE
Enter 3 keyword you
associate with this
image

6. What students said
• exhibition dress victorian
• "UnisexModernGender"
• dior dress doll
• fashion, dress, manikins
• "fashion dior dress"
• "fashiondresscolour"
• dresses
• doll fashion dior
• material history archive
• Fashion
• dress, dolls, fashion
• christian dior ball gowns

7. What is Jaws about?
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8. What students said
• The need for a bigger boat
• sharkeil o neil
• Corrupt Leadership and Masculinity
• big shark daddy done did a mighty eat on all the
people and some disagree that this is a good
thing but not the sharkie no
• about an dick of a shark
• big fishy, eating people :)
• a spooky shark that wants to eat people
• a turtle
• shark preying on humans
• bad guppie
• its about a shark. a big shark. a shark that fights for the
people. fights for the little man. what it means to be alive.
what makes a man and a god. WHAT IT MEANS TO NOM
THINGS
• suspense surrounding a primal fear of predators.
• sharkyboi
• It is human expression about fear against unknown. In the
time when jaws was produced people didn't know too much
about sharks. So that was good subject was make movie.
• The Beach Boys Get Spooked By A Large Fish
• A stinky old fish
• memes
• a shark eats some people and some other people are like
"nah fam"

9. What is Jaws about?
• A “morality tale about the dangers of
extramarital sex and the inability of a
weak father to control his family and his
community”? (Kermode, 2015)?
• A “depiction of masculinity in crisis”?
(Kermode, 2015)
• A “post-Watergate paranoid parable
about corrupt authority figures”?
(Kermode, 2015)
• A lost and hungry fish?
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10. Let’s use it
• Take your phones/laptops/devices
• Go to Socrative.com
• Choose Student login
• The room is UWEACE