The Idea
Create a couple of comprehension check questions that you would like to ask while giving a lecture, or a quick quiz to check up on your students. Use the feedback to help steer the class or even to aid error correction.
What to do
Create a Socrative account. Your account now controls a "classroom". Now, create a quiz or even just one or two questions you would like to ask your students during a lecture.
Give the students the code to enter the classroom. They can use their phone or any device that has Internet access by going to m.socrative.com and answering the questions that you ask.
You can then use the feedback to help you gauge how much time to spend on the topic, which students need more work, what kind of mistakes people are making, etc.
Example
Go to http://www.socrative.com/ and create a teacher account. Follow the directions on how to use the site. Make some questions or quizzes. If you would like to try one of the quizzes I made, use the codes below. I'll try to add more quizzes.
If you would like to see what it is like for students, join this class: 261381. Take the quiz.
What is really nice is that you get an email report of the answers at the end in the form of a spreadsheet. I really like printing this out for students the next day and having them correct their own and other's mistakes.
What is really neat about this report is if you have a projector, or better yet smart board (I have an Eno board), you can project the wrong answers on the screen (without the names) and correct mistakes right then and there.
Here is an example worksheet I made with real responses from the students.
Try it!
What would you like to see done with this technology? What are some good quiz ideas you have? What are some other ways we can get our ESL students to use their smart phone smart?
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