Getting started with

Socrative in 15 minutesAndroid App Kickstart Guidebrought to you by Google Play for Education

It’s intended to:

How to use this kickstart guide

This presentation is an interactive and quick introduction toSocrative

It’s designed to be used in a variety of ways, such as:

Get up and running in as little as 15 minutes

▪ Familiarize you with the app’s functionality

▪ Provide examples for how to incorporate it into instruction, and

▪ Get you thinking about how to use it yourself

▪ Self-paced by a teacher. Just walk through the slides and follow the instructions

▪ For a technology integration specialist or instructional coach to deliver as professional development fora group of teachers. It’s also customizable, so thatit can be tweaked to matched your district context, mixed and matched with other resources. Make ityour own!

▪ Used in a PLC during a collaborative planning session

Agenda

Warmup

Incorporating Socrative into instruction

Initial impressions: how might you use it?

More resources

Planning your first Socrative lesson

What is Socrative? Functionality overview

Your turn: time to try Socrative!

Warmup

Let’s get started!

Get a taste for just one of the many ways you might use Socrative in the classroom—to introduce a multiculturalism lesson!

Check out this 2:20 video

What is Socrative?

Socrative is a formative assessment response system that enables you to engage with and assess students in real-time.

Watch this 1:32 video to learn more

Key features for the classroomWhat is Socrative?

Quick polling which includes open response questions.

Key features for the classroomWhat is Socrative?

Get a quick paper-free pulse check before students leave.

Key features for the classroomWhat is Socrative?

Design and deliver quizzes which can also be sharedwith colleagues.

Key features for the classroomWhat is Socrative?

Save on grading time with automatic result reporting.

Key features for the classroomWhat is Socrative?

Engage student teams with race games and instantly see results by question.

Initial impressions:how might you use it?We’ll look at some more examples of teachers using Socrative in the classroom shortly, but what comes to mind for how you might use it with your students?

Write down an idea for an upcoming or recent lesson or project that could benefit from using Socrative.

(In a group? Briefly discuss your ideas.)

Your turn: time to try Socrative!

Create and deliver your first quiz!

Spend the next 5 minutes getting familiar with Socrative

Here are a couple tips to get you started:

1. To try it, you’ll want to have one tablet acting as a teacher and another (or more) acting as a student. If you don’t have multiple tablets handy, you can also use a laptop or phone, login at socrative.com

2. The Socrative is intuitive to use, so you can try jumping right in and creating your first quiz. If you prefer to follow along with instructions, try the Socrative user guide.

3. You may also enjoy their video library.

English language arts

Countries around the world lesson where students research a country and create a passport.

Full lesson plan, including CCSS alignment(this is the lesson featured in the video youwatched earlier).

Incorporating Socrative into instructionHere are some more ideas for integrating Socrative into your classroom

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Science

All about soil lesson uses Socrative to do a pretest about soils and their properties, working and answering teams.

Watch the adjacent video, full lesson plan is available below.

Incorporating Socrative into instructionHere are some more ideas for integrating Socrative into your classroom

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Open response feature

Use the open response question feature to gather authenticate sentences from your students throughout class.

Here are 3 ideas to get you started.

Incorporating Socrative into instructionHere are some ideas for using Socrative in all subjects and grade levels

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Virtual time capsule

Create a virtual time capsule to capture our students’ main ideas at the end of each week or each unit. This will enable them to conceptualize their learning, reflect on their growth and even predict what might be on the horizon.

Incorporating Socrative into instructionHere are some ideas for using Socrative in all subjects and grade levels

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Word clouds

Gather student ideas and then visualize theclass’ thinking using word clouds. Truly making thinking visible!

Incorporating Socrative into instructionHere are some ideas for using Socrative in all subjects and grade levels

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Planning your first use of SocrativeNow that you’ve learned about the functionality of Socrative, and seen some examples of it being incorporated into the classroom, it’s time to quickly sketch out how you might start using it in your classroom.

What upcoming lesson or project will you use to introduce Socrative? This might be the idea you thought of earlier, or a new one.

Consider these questions:1. What objectives are you trying to achieve, and how

will Socrative support them?2. What will it look like? What will students need to do

prior to, during, and after your use of Socrative?3. What other resources will you need?

Be sure to write down your answers so you’ll have something to build from later.

More resources

Click on the links below to learn more

Socrative garden with more examples

Socrative user guide

Socrative videos

Socrative help center

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