I recently created a Socrative account.
After listening to Amber talk about it in our last ELITE session, I thought I'd create an account and try it out on my own first: laptop on my left, newly acquired hand-me-down iPhone on my right. And can I just say, it's pretty cool!
Since my students are currently tackling the book Night, a book that I feel can only be used in classrooms if large amounts of discussion are occurring, I have been wanting to use some Socratic seminar techniques. So I thought: Socratic, Socrative. Perfect! But then I logged in to Socrative and realized it was much more quizzy with results coming to the teacher in a spreadsheet. I'd forgotten about that.
So maybe it won't work so much for contributing online to real time discussions as much as I'd hoped, but I totally see the value in other aspects.
So, I created a quick quiz/survey. Something that would be quick and easy for the kids to do on their own devices, but also quick/short enough that they could share a device with a classmate and finish quickly (even if quizzing independently).
The first question, multiple choice:
Do you think Elie Wiesel carefully selects words to convey tone and mood?
a-Yes, absolutely. (this should be the correct answer)
b-No, not really.
c-I'm still confused on Tone and Mood.
Answers to this simple question gives me a great idea of how my students are thinking and reading the text--and who I need to reteach/revisit tone and mood with. And they can be honest with me without having to do so in front of a classmate.
The second and third questions involve responding with examples of words/phrases that support either mood or tone.
I'll be giving this quiz/survey on Monday and will report back.
Again, I'm starting small and will build from there. It's pretty exciting!
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