1. Bring Your Classroom to Life!
2016 Ohio ACTE
Connections to Education Conference
July 26, 2016
Presenter: Kelly Dine, R.N., B.S.N., M.Ed.
PLTW Biomedical Science teacher
AYA (7th-12th grade) Biology licensure
North High School, Akron, Ohio

2. Web-based platforms
Kahoot
Thinglink
EDpuzzle
Socrative

3. Teachers: go to www.getkahoot.com Students: go to www.kahootit.com
Click links below!
Teachers: go to
Students: go to

4. Kahoot: fun competition!
Students view quiz on board, answer on their device, & receive real-time results and scoring

5. Kahoot advantages: Disadvantage:
Teacher-created quizzes (or use a publicly shared one)
Optional time limit per question
Real-time results per question
Fun, competitive environment - students LOVE it
Can be played as individuals or teams
Great for different types of learners (kinesthetic, etc.), as well as ELLs (English Language Learners)
Disadvantage:
Students must be able to see the main board where question & answers are presented. Students can only see the answer color blocks on their screens.

6. Thinglink Create your own interactive images with informational tagsB.
Thinglink
Create your own interactive images with informational tags
Click here!

7. View of Thinglink home page

8. How to Fight Pirates - aaarr!
Click on the heading below to be taken directly to a Thinglink example.
Once you’re at the website, hover your cursor over each tag.
You will see various formats of information: text, pictures, and video. You can also insert music into a tag!
Click the heading below:
Deterring Piracy

9. Title the new Thinglink Begin creating tags!
Choose any image
Upload the image
Title the new Thinglink
Begin creating tags!
Your students will love using their creativity! They can insert text, photos, music, and video into each tag!

10. Advantages: Disadvantage:
Students love having choices
Students enjoy using their own creativity & technology
Can be used formatively or summatively
Great for differentiation and for all types of learners
Excellent tool for assessing ELLs
Can be shared and posted in multiple ways
Finally! No more paper-and-pencil tests!
Disadvantage:
If used summatively, students may be able to open other internet windows simultaneously to “help” them define their tags. Be sure you can view their screens.

11. The next slides are actual examples
of my students’ work. One shows formative use, and the other shows summative use.
Click on the red picture heading next to the image to be taken directly to the Thinglink created by the students.

12. His was voted Best in Class by his peers.
Thinglink formative use:
Ashok, a 10th grader, was a first-time user when he created his Skeleton Thinglink to review various bones of the skeletal system.
He was given a word bank of bones. He had to choose his image, place his tags in the correct location, and correctly identify both the bone & a fact about it.
His was voted Best in Class by his peers.
Click below:
Ashok's skeleton

13. Quinn's environmental pollution quiz
Thinglink summative use:
Quinn was a 2nd time user. He was given 5 vocabulary terms.
He had to apply knowledge of the concepts by
1. choosing an image that would correctly demonstrate
his comprehension of the terms
2. placing the tags in the correct locations on the image
3. describing and tagging the terms correctly.
Click below:
Quinn's environmental pollution quiz

14. C. EDpuzzle Click here! www.edpuzzle.com
Allows the teacher to engage students by inserting comments, questions, and assessments using audio or text into any video.
Click here!

15. EDpuzzle: video interaction
Yellow boxes indicate places where the teacher stopped the video to insert comments or further explain an idea.
Green boxes are places where the teacher inserted written questions or assignments.
Teachers can also audio record themselves over the video, so that the students see the original video, but hear their teacher speaking.

16. Advantages: Disadvantages:
Teacher can send video assignment to student, then track what percentage of video is viewed, as well as grade and record assessment questions.
Students can view on their own time.
Can be used formatively or summatively
Can set parameters to ensure that students watch entire video without “skipping ahead”
Disadvantages:
Gradebook report doesn’t show which questions were answered incorrectly. Also, if using a YouTube video, be sure students have viewing access.

17. Example of EDpuzzle gradebook download:

18. Socrative Activities, quizzes, exit tickets, and instant answers
Click here!

19. A variety of great activities

20. Advantages: Disadvantages:
Instant real-time feedback (teachers and students)
Easy to create, easy to use (teachers and students)
Students can see questions and answers on their own device
Quiz questions can be aligned to a standard
Can be used formatively or summatively
Fantastic, thorough real-time results for data-driven instruction
Disadvantages:
Doesn’t have quite as much “fun” factor as Kahoot, or as much creativity as Thinglink. However, students like the clean look & straightforward approach, and the data return is outstanding.

21. Student view of a multiple choice question

22. Teacher view of a short answer question, with editing tools and the ability to add more questions to the assessment.

23. Student view of the same short answer question

24. Data-driven instruction: real-time report shows list of 3 students, and the results per student per question. Question #5 was a short answer question that would need to be graded by the instructor.