This document provides an overview of flipped professional learning using Socrative apps for an ESL classroom. It recommends exploring free teacher and student apps from Socrative and checking YouTube videos to learn how to use the apps. It then outlines several ways the apps can be used for formative assessment and professional collaboration, such as sharing quizzes with other teachers, reflecting on lessons in blogs, and connecting with other educators on Twitter.
Flipped professional learning, Socratives app in esl
1. Flipped Professional
Learning
Explore the Socrative Apps
for an ESL classroom and learn about flipped
professional learning for I pads
Professional Learning
Series
Apps in ESL
Collated by brigidwheel
Designed to be shared.
3. Flipped Professional Learning
visual lear ning
• Download and explore free Teacher & Student Apps and check out Socrative videos
on You Tube.
• Warning - This is not designed to be presented in a traditional PD style, I take no
responsibility for your audience sleeping or playing with Apps while you talk at them.
• This is a Quick Independent Learning Tour to get you exploring and thinking about
uses and perhaps prepare for a teacher Meet-Up to exchange ideas and build
knowledge collaboratively and share.
• It includes hands-on tasks for you to connect with other teachers at face-to- face Meet-
Ups or connect globally online to develop uses further.
• Social media is a great tool to speed up learning, connecting and conversing with
teachers globally. Currently I'm chatting to Finnish teachers who are also using iPads
in the class and a teacher in outback Australia using tools to improve literacy rates
amongst the indigenous community. I really recommend connecting globally to ensure
your students benefit by access to Best Practice.
4. Flipped Professional Learning
social media
• I thought Twitter was to tell the world what I ate for breakfast. Well, I
am no longer resistant to micro blogging. It a fabulous professional
learning tool. Start by using #ipadchat, #socrative when sharing on
Twitter.
• Consider connecting your Twitter account to the Flipboard or
similar App to connect and learn together.
• I look at Twitter for 30 mins a day and add some off-line mobile
reading using the Instapaper App.
5. Flipped Professional Learning
personalization
• I read, think and design new lessons and record
ideas. I jot down ideas for a blog. I use Evernote.
• You could reflect and share your thoughts by creating
a professional learning blog.
• You could make your blog an E- Folio following your
professional learning . Maybe design a rough plan of
how you would apply it in your class. Blog about it
afterwards.
6. Flipped Professional Learning
Connectedness
• Share your ideas,
experience with your
global teaching
community with
Slideshare or IMovie
freedigitalphotos.net
and with me on
Twitter @brigidwheel
7. Free !!!
Student Response System for Formative
Assessment
Intro video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSp13h_98s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
8. A few ideas for
English • Student generated
• A modern twist on a spelling questions to review
bee - compete between grammar
classes - share quizzes.
• Check homework use a quiz
• Vocabulary quiz - checking as an "Entry Ticket"
independent learning as an
Entry Ticket to class. • Recycle language points.
• Review yesterday's reading • Check reading
with a few more comprehension from
comprehension questions. graded readers or online
games.
9. More Uses....
• Try using open ended questions to reflect at end of
lesson
• Ask open ended questions for students to explain a text.
Students then read and vote on the best response.
• Just in time learning - get students to sign in true or false.
Students create some extra questions on the spot from a
text, read them out and get the students to answer.
• Track results in a Google spreadsheet or by email. Great to
add to portfolios.
• Ss find an image. Eg Getty images. Co-construct
questions for students to describe.
• Spark an opening discussion with a multiple choice
question.
• Create an Exit Ticket - a quick review to end the lesson.
10. Share quizzes with
team.
• Share your quizzes with
other teachers - in the
Edit Quiz section in
Main menu assign an
SOC number.
• Take turns making
vocab or spelling
quizzes on the units in
Q- Skills or Global.
11. How do I create a quiz?
Save time
Grades itself.
Go to You Tube - "Creating a quiz
in Socrative"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-
ue87Te9Lk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
12. How do I administer the quiz?
• Select Start Quiz.
• Choose saved quiz.
• Options - teacher paced or student paced quiz.
• Options - teacher paced or student paced quiz.
• Instant Feedback.
• Check out this video on YouTube by Wlliemann19
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=degYQxFe2rg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
13. Meet-Ups ------- Your turn ...
• Download the Teacher and Student Apps - watch the How to... Videos on YouTube.
• Find a teacher or a few in your pod or your Meet-Up Zone and play with App.
• Role play a student- teacher and try out the different quizzes - make a few different question types.
• Try an open ended question to generate higher order thinking.
• Check out the results - how do you get them to Excel ?
• Running out of class time - set some homework from a page in your PDF text and a quick quiz.
• Find 3 more ways you could use it and share with your group.
• Workflow - how could you connect this to another ICT activity ?
• Google it, read online, watch some more videos.
• Share your learning at another Meet-Up or globally on Twitter or a professional learning blog.
14. Teacher blogs with more classroom ideas.
• http://educationwebcloud.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-this-post-we-will-explore-how-to-ask.h
• http://www.teachscience.net/2011/11/09/socrative-web-based-response-system-for-the-cl
• http://www.socrative.com/garden/?p=755
15. References in this presentation are from the Socrative
website , teacher blogs, you tube videos, twitter tweets
and the Edudemic Magazine and free images.net.
Socrative website
http://www.socrative.com/
