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Socrative is a virtual room through which teachers can create quizzes (multiple choice, true/false, and short answer), assign questions, and/or give exit tickets that students can take using any web-enabled device.
 * Socrative Tutorials – Web-Based Student Response System**


 * 1) 1 – Socrative Introduction – [|www.socrative.com]. Some highlights follow: Room #s are set up by the teacher so students can log in to assigned activity. If a quiz is assigned, it can be student paced or teacher paced and completed using laptops, iPad (tablets), iPods or SmartPhones. Reponses are immediately viewed by the teacher, tallied into an Excel spreadsheet.
 * 2) 2 - Socrative Space Race – This is an interactive feature which allows pairs/small groups to collaborate in answering questions on a Socrative quiz. Reports can be emailed or downloaded what teams are finished.
 * 3) 3 – Socrative Quick Quiz Template – an Excel Quick Quiz template can be downloaded where a quiz name and questions/types are entered. Quizzes can be managed and imported for use in [|www.t.socrative.com] and shared via email.

Here are some of the examples that I found most applicable to a high school English/Journalism classroom: 1) Make music (could accompany a project like Soundtrack of My Life writing project) 3) Read out loud and share (children’s books developed in a creative writing classroom could be developed into interactive eBooks to share with elementary students) 5) Paint and Draw! Use software to paint, draw, and sketch a children’s book. 6) Presentations – Perfect for instant class presentations. Install the Keynote App. Add video, email presentation in PDF 12) Take or record classroom notes 13) Save and edit images 14) Blog 18) Free copies of texts 20) Make comics 23) Navigate your world 24) Use Evernote to keep Notes 30) Create PhotoCards 47) Teleprompter (create videos and podcasts) 48) Create and collaborate on Google 49)Create digital stories
 * 70 Interesting Ways to Use an iPad in the Classroom**

Questions were posed and then answers provided to discuss use of iPads, iPods, eReaders and iPhones in schools: What is “The Cloud”? Web-based applications, storage and collaboration. What is an e-reader? How many does my school have? (Kindle, Nook, etc.) Apps Worth Mentioning (content specific as well as general ones) iDevices in the Classroom
 * iPads, iPods, eReaders and More** (39 page presentation FETC 2012)