In what ways could you imagine using Socrative online?

My favourite feature, without a doubt, is all the information I can gather from the individual performances of learners. I could use use it, for instance, with listening comprehension activities to spot who is having problems with what kind of question or type of comprehension. Listening, as it is so complex to keep track of student's results, is usually one of my biggest challenges. In class, when we do listening tasks, we usually do some general whole-class check and feedback, but I don't usually ask students to hand in the tasks. So, even though I can tell when someone is having difficulties, or when a task has proven to be difficult, I don't keep record of their ease or challenge with so much detail, and I am sure that if I had that information I would be able to spot more interesting reactions, beyond "generally good or generally bad" and it would give me a different perception of the kind of specific training they might need (telling them to spend more time doing more guided tasks, or more open gist type listening, asking them to transcribe?). In this sense, it is a wonderful formative assessment tool, it allows for keen observation in order to make the necessary changes, and also to be able to inform students better and guide them towards the kind of specific actions that should help them improve that skill.

I would also like to try the exit tickets, and see how the students feel about their own learning. That is also a valuable source of information, as part of the formative assessment.

From another point of view, in the context of blended learning I can see how useful Socrative can be as a tool to link the two settings. I like the idea of asking the learners to carry out some comprehension task in the platform, and then in class play the game. It is a brilliant way of making all the activities relevant and dependent on each other. It's also motivating and engaging -not only because it's game-based, but because of the connection - so I am sure that if one of my objectives is to get most students on board and really understand their role in a blended learning environment, these kind of routines and tasks will be of much help.

Finally, another thing I find important is that I can tell who has done the task or not. In a blended learning context, it is very helpful if I proposed something to be done in the platform before the live session, to know how many students have listened to the text, in oder to have an alternative plan or ideas.

How do you think Socrative could be used by students?

Students enter a game created by the teacher by clicking on Socrative-student and then entering the room number their teacher has provided. Then they will have the game available according the teacher's settings: space Race mode or quiz mode. In a hybrid classroom the best idea is that learners use their smartphones to access the game, while the teacher can screenshare the screen with the results and progress of the games.

As the students answer the questions they can get instant feedback on their answers on their smartphones and the progress at the same time.

How would you use the data that is created when students do a Socrative quiz?

As a mentioned in the first question I could easily gather information about:

1. how each student is coping with the task. I can spot what exact questions the students have struggled with, individually and as a group.

2. Who and how many people carried out the task.