ICT in TESOL Katie Webb

What is it? Socrative is a FREE online tool that enables teachers to build formative and summative quizzes AND share and import them from other colleagues.   I hear ya -  "but you spoke about Quizlet  a couple of posts ago - why are you showing us another quizzing tool?"  I really believe that these two tools offer different things - I won't go into details here about what makes quizlet great you can read that post but I will tell you all about socrative and I think the easiest way to do that is to show you how it works.  Go on then... After signing up for a free socrative account , the first thing teachers see is the homepage ↓ At the top of the page is your unique room ID. This is the code you'll need to give students to access any material you make - one of the great things about Socrative is that students don't have to sign up for an account or put in their email address.  They just have to open up the student home p...

Padlet No more stickies. Instead, use a living breathing  bulletin board to gather and share your ideas.  Tell me more... Padlet is an online application that can be used on mobile devices, PDAs and Laptops. Typically, users create a Padlet (which is very similar to a bulletin board) to collect ideas and brainstorm. Users can upload links, images, videos, and much more meaning that there is a real creative element to using it aaaaaand you can add to the board whenever you want or remove and edit boards if/when needed 😼 By now I figure you have realised that I am a BIG fan of Padlet. If not, here it is spelled out: I 💗 PADLET Instead of making and embedding a Padlet for this blog, I am (with full permission) embedding one I am actually using for group work at the moment.  As part of one of my core modules for my MA in research, we have to do a group poster on rigor in qualitative research. I heart Padlet so much that I recommended to our gro...

This week's tool is AnswerGarden.  Well, what is it? In a metaphorical sense, the title of the tool hints at it being a garden full of answers. More literally, it is an audience participation tool that can be used in real-time for  online brainstorming and classroom feedback.  Creating an AnswerGarden is really simple and intuitive (I didn't need the instructions but they can be found here  and there is also a demo here ).   Who can use it? Well you have probably worked it out already but Answergarden can be used by anyone wanting to get brief (I'll get to that point later) feedback from a group - so teachers can use it with students, trainers with trainees, students for group work, workshop leaders with course attendees, etc.  How can it be used? I think the tool works really well to review class material or find out what your students/ trainees already know. In the one I have set up below ↓ the idea is to have teacher ...