12/5/2013 Tools to support BYOD in the classroomThe improvements in Cloud storage and advancements in mobile technologies, coupled with the ever increasing expense of maintaining and upgrading existing ICT equipment, are persuading more and more educational establishments to investigate BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). With interest increasing in the potential of BYOD, a number of tools have begun to surface which claim to support BYOD in the classroom: Infuse LearningInfuseLearning - infuse learning.com - is a free online tool which turns any web enabled device into a classroom response tool. The tool allows teachers to send questions / quizzes out to students' devices in private virtual classrooms. InfuseLearning allows teachers to create tests and quizzes in a variety of formats. Students can reply to prompts and questions in the usual formats such as True/False, multiple choice and open ended text answer formats however, thanks to a unique feature of InfuseLearning, students can reply by creating drawings or diagrams on their web enabled device. EdmodoEdmodo - edmodo.com - is a FREE 'Social Networking' environment for students, partents and teachers. It provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. In fact, many schools are ditching their VLE's in preference to edmodo. Teachers and students can post messages, discuss topics, assign and grade work, create polls and quizzes, and use their web enabled device as a response / voting system. SocrativeSocrative - socrative.com - is a great AfL app which allows you to create interactive quizzes and surveys. Socrative allows you to choose form a range of surveys and quizzes including: Short Answer Questions, Multiple choice and True or False questions. The most recent version also allows you to add pictures to you questions. Want to find out more? Click here
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