As mentioned in my week notes last week I attended a training session on the use of Socrative. Socrative is a student response system that can be used  to create a series of educational exercises including class votes, group competitions and assessments. The best thing about Socrative (apart from it being free to use) is the fact that students can access it via either the colleges computers or an app on their smart phone/ tablet computer. Therefore this software provides students a chance to legitimately use their phone in class.

I have previously used voting pads with my AS students but as I was unfamiliar with the software and found them quite faffy, however as Socrative seems a lot easier to use I will definitely be trying it out with my classes soon.