Tech Tip 3/13/15
Kahoot
What is it?
A Kahoot is a learning game created on the Kahoot! platform, which consists of multiple choice questions - as a quiz, discussion or survey - in any topic, language or ability. It’s projected at the front of the classroom, & played by the whole class together in real-time (answering on their own personal device) - see it in action! https://getkahoot.com/ If you would like to see on in action be can play one at the next staff meeting. I would encourage you to explore this site it has multiple applications.
Get Kahoot
Kahoot can be used on device that has access to the internet. This includes Phones, ChromeBooks, PC's, and tablets.
multiple Uses
The quiz, poll, and discussion can be used as a formative assessment tool. If you decide to make a Kahoot make sure you have your questions ready it makes the process go faster.
Use Shared Kahoots
You have access to any Kahoot that has been shared. if you select the title you can explore the questions as well as play, share, and mark it as a favorite.
Pin
Once you have selected a game a pin is given. Show this from your projector and have students go to Kahoot.it on their device and enter the pin.
Names
Once you see all their names you tell Kahoot to start.
Quiz example
The questions are shown on the projector screen and the answers use shapes and colors to select. Once all students have answered the question you can move on to the next question. scores are based in response time and if they are correct or not. At the end of the quiz students rate the activity and results are shown.
Access Data
once you have an account you can access data by selecting your user name and clicking "My Results"
Date connects to your google drive or Excel
You can also have data downloaded to your Google drive if you want.
Data
Students can team up or play individually. You can then take the data to quickly assess skills and knowledge