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Teach Someone a Technology Assignment- Socrative Student Response


 * Objectives:**
 * 1) Learners will be able to navigate the main dashboard and able to create simple questions to poll a group using either phones or computer.
 * 2) Learners will be able to create a small quiz that encompasses each question option and save it into their folder on the web application.
 * 3) Learners will discuss how to use the online student response system authentically within a classroom lesson.

The participants that will be taught about Socrative will be gathered together for an orientation meeting. This orientation meeting’s purpose is to get the new Site Coordinators acquainted with the GearUp for the Promise grant and to teach them about authentic use of technology in the classroom. This lesson serves a dual purpose of sparking a discussion about authentic practices as well as showing them a new piece of technology they might want to incorporate in their schools next year. The new Site Coordinators vary greatly in teaching experience and instructional technology knowledge. For some, this might be their first encounter with a student response system. The participants also vary with age. The oldest being around the age of 45 and the youngest, around the age of 23. The above-mentioned demographics will have to be taken into account when creating the lesson. The lesson design goals will address how this will be done.
 * Learner Demographics**


 * Lesson Goals**
 * 1) Clear and easily followed instructions
 * 2) No less than three breaks to check for understanding
 * 3) Lesson is at a slower pace but not so slow that participants start to lose interest.
 * 4) Engaging media that is short
 * 5) Quick tips that the participants can access at any time.
 * 6) Useful handouts that can serve as quick references for common problems.


 * Media Production**
 * 1) How to sign up for Socrative and creating a room name
 * 2) Giving quick poll questions
 * 3) Creating a quiz and exporting into excel

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 * Lesson Plan**
 * 1) Direct students to [|www.m.socrative.com] and direct them to enter the boomersooner room. Start the pre-made quiz and give time for students to take quiz. Once the participants finish, open up live results and discuss some of their answers.
 * 2) Export the results to Excel to be used for later.
 * 3) Direct participants to [|www.chasek20pd.weebly.com] and show them how to find the Socrative page that has been created. Here is a screen shot of a section of the resource page that was created and housed at http://chasek20pd.weebly.com/socrative-training.html
 * 1) Break participants into groups of two and introduce the assignment. The assignment is for each group to create their own room within Socrative, practice polling using quick questions, and then create a quiz and save it to be used. They can find videos and resources on how to create these on the chasek20 website. The quiz must be three questions and has to assess/poll the others about authentic teaching (most have no prior knowledge about authentic teaching practices, this is more of a pre-assessment for the instructor for their training that will take place the next day).
 * 2) The groups will then take turns giving their quizzes to the rest of the participants.
 * 3) Participants will be then lead into a discussion of authentic technology use and how Socrative can support that ideal.

Each group’s created quiz will demonstrate the participants competency in using Socrative. To create the quiz the students must first create a login and room. Then they must create the questions for the quiz and save it. If the quiz works when they give it to the rest of the participants then they have shown that they are able to use the technology that they learned in the PD.
 * Assessment**


 * Handout**

Socrative Student Response Training!

Useful Links: [] [|www.socrative.com] [|www.m.socrative.com]

Your Mission:


 * In groups create a login to Socrative and make your own room


 * Practice giving the quick verbal questions to your group


 * Research authentic teaching practices with your group and take down notes of what you find


 * Create a 3 question quiz that assesses what you found in your research and save it inside the Socrative applet.


 * Reflection**

The technology survey was the most helpful to me when thinking about this professional development. All of my participants gave a very fair evaluation of my presentation and materials. They also brought a few points to my attention that I didn’t think of while developing the lesson.

A couple of participants mentioned that it was hard to follow along with the videos while performing the task that the video teaches. The participants in the PD didn’t know how to change the browser tabs back and forth to follow along. This was an unseen problem in my initial planning phase. I just directed to the resource page on my website and assumed that they had used embedded YouTube videos before. This problem could be solved by simply showing the participants how to open and flip tabs inside the browser.

A couple of the groups during the session discovered that there was a short tutorial about Socrative when they created their username and password. These groups read through this tutorial and pretty much learned how the web app worked. They said that the tutorial spoiled the videos that I had created and they didn’t need them to complete the end task of the PD.

The participants did like the handout because it had the links written out for them to keep and had the instructions for the assignment. They liked that they had a physical copy to write down their room numbers and possible questions they could put on their quiz. I do feel like the handout could be dressed up a little for the next time I do this PD.

The participants also had trouble coming up with a room name that already wasn’t in use. I should have added a section in the video that tells them to add a number into the room name if their first selection is taken already.

A couple of participants mentioned that the wording in one of the assignment steps, needed to be changed to make a little more sense. She said that she didn’t know were to go to research, but once I directed her to Google she did just fine.

Most of the comments were positive in nature and really weren’t huge glaring problems. All of the participants created a quiz that we all took without too much struggle. They all said that they would love to use it again in the future and that it was a really good thing to use inside of PDs and in the classroom. This professional development was a success.