Here is my first impression of its uses in the classroom.
Pros:
- Requires student or group name
- Provides data collection from polls and quizzes
- Allows teacher to export spreadsheet of student correct or incorrect responses
- Easy to use Polls and Quizzes
- Allows teacher to ask multiple choice, short answer, or poll questions
- Provides real time graphic update
- Students are allowed to ask questions
- Students may choose to answer or vote for the question to be addressed
- Teacher created discussion questions
- Students may respond 'anonymously' to the question (the teacher may see the students name)
- Easy to delete inappropriate questions
- Confusion Barometer
- Teacher and students are able to view a real time graph of the number of students who are having trouble with the material
Cons:
- TBD
Check out GoSoapBox on Facebook or watch a classroom full of iPads interact with GoSoapBox
Example used in class:
Teacher's page:
Students Page:
Example used in class:
Teacher's page:
I took the tour and decided to sign up for a free trial: I liked the confusion barometer. I was playing out how this would fly with my seventh graders, and I've decided it might be better suited for 8th grade and up. It's not that I don't think you could teach the younger set the acceptable use policy, but I think it would require a certain level of maturity to get the most out of all of this program's features.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the program works on a foudations of assumptions that would rewuire an educator to reevaluate their classroom dynamic. But from the recent NYTimes article on Mooresville*, “You have to trust kids more than you’ve ever trusted them.Your teachers have to be willing to give up control.”
ReplyDelete*http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/education/mooresville-school-district-a-laptop-success-story.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1
P.S. Where is the button to insert links into comments? Or does that involve writing HTML or CSS code?
I think that links in comments requires HTML code. Let me try:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/education/mooresville-school-district-a-laptop-success-story.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1