Information about using Socrative and Edmodo.

1. USING TECHNOLOGY
By: Melissa Tillman

2. USING TECHNOLOGY
• Assessment
• Socrative is a program used to
generate questions for students to
respond to. This can be used for
quick exercise, exit tickets, quizzes
and much more.
• Communication
• Edmodo is a network used by students
teachers, parents, and administrators.
The network allows communication such
as discussion boards, polls, and reminders.
http://www.socrative.com/ http://www.edmodo.com/

3. SOCRATIVE
WHAT IS IT? HOW DOES IT WORK?
SIMPLE & SMART
Socrative is a smart student response system
that empowers teachers by engaging their
classrooms with a series of educational
exercises and games. Our apps are super
simple and take seconds to login. Socrative runs
on tablets, smartphones, and laptops
http://www.socrative.com/how-it-works
• Socrative can be used as formal or
formative assessment.
• Great for closures to check for
understanding.

4. SOCRATIVE
WHAT IS IT? HOW DOES IT WORK
ENGAGING
Teachers login through their device and select an activity which
controls the flow of questions and games. Students simply login
with their device and interact real time with the content.
ASSESSMENT
Student responses are visually represented for multiple
choice, true/false and Short Answer questions. For pre-
planned activities a teacher can view reports online as a
google spreadsheet or as an emailed Excel file.
http://www.socrative.com/how-it-works
http://www.socrative.com/how-it-works

5. LET’S GET STARTED WITH SOCRATIVE
•Follow the link to a video clip below to
see more!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYURj1QU0Ls

6. SOCRATIVE
•Enhancing
Instruction
• Provides check for
understanding
• Keeps students’ attention
• Helps students practice
answering questions in a
traditional format
•Meeting needs of
diverse students
• Great for different
learning styles
• Provides feedback to
students as soon as
the student
completes the
assignment

7. EDMODO
Teachers can post
homework and outside
assignments in the from
of polls, quizzes or even
just a note.

8. EDMODO
• Edmodo is
great for
reinforcement.
• Teachers can
post
documents,
powerpoints,
and video
clips.

9. EDMODO
Teachers monitor
their groups and
can allow
students to
respond to each
others
comments.

10. EDMODO
•Follow the link to a video clip below to
see more!!
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-KBwriCO-Q

11. EDMODO
•Enhance instruction
• Reinforces material
learned in class
• Allows a teacher to
gauge students prior
knowledge through
polls
•Meeting needs of
diverse students
• Students can communicate
with their peers
• Students can ask teachers
questions without being
embarrassed
• Offers alternative assignments
• Provides feedback to
students

12. TEACHER SUPPORT
•Each tool will be have a tech person
(volunteer) that will assist teachers with tools
•Professional development will be offered to
further assist teachers.
•Professional development will be centered on
how to used the tools to design curriculum
based instruction.