{"id":3602,"date":"2012-02-17T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2012-02-17T09:53:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:53:03","slug":"may-be-better-than-clickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3602","title":{"rendered":"May be better than &#8220;Clickers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/socrative.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socrative.com\/images\/logo.png\" alt=\"Inline image 1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For the last several years I&#8217;ve been waiting for a web-based &#8220;clicker&#8221; program that will work with smartphones, laptops and not require clickers.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polleverywhere.com\/\">Poll Everywhere<\/a> works pretty well and is based on text messages.\u00a0 I find it a bit limiting.\u00a0 In addition there are audience size limitations and other issues.\u00a0 Recently in UKanTeach&#8217;s PBI class the students researched technology apps for the classroom.\u00a0 I did not see the presentations but an alternative to Clickers was presented by Ann Gorsuch&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/socrative.com\/\">Socrative<\/a> (along with a short version of an Algebra Book she wrote in IBook Author.) \u00a0 On the new AP Biology Community discussion forums Kristen Gabel also recommended Socrative.\u00a0 Check it out, I think this has great potential for the classroom&#8211;and right now it is free.\u00a0 The students can input through any smartphone or computer that is connected to the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several years I&#8217;ve been waiting for a web-based &#8220;clicker&#8221; program that will work with smartphones, laptops and not require clickers.\u00a0 Poll Everywhere works pretty well and is based on text messages.\u00a0 I find it a bit limiting.\u00a0 In addition there are audience size limitations and other issues.\u00a0 Recently in UKanTeach&#8217;s PBI class<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3602\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}