Techedge
TechEDGE is a podcast done in conjuction with Nebraskas school of education. Their videos are accesible through their online YouTube channel, Tech EDGE. These videos provide great resources for teachers and helps them learn how to incorporate technology into their classroom. This is done by discussing different apps that can be used by either the teacher or the student. These apps are very classroom friendly and will help provide your students with knowledge in several academic subjects. By watching the videos provided by TechEDGE, I was already able to find three great apps that can be used by the teacher and the student for exit tickets. On their YouTube channel, however, you can find many different videos pertaining to many different subjects or areas that you will be covering in class. Below, I will discussing the three apps that I found and feel will be very beneficial in my future classroom.
Google Forms
TechEDGE's podcast on Exit Tickets and Formative assessments in the classroom talks about the app and web browser, Google Forms. Google Forms allows you to create unlimited free forms for your classroomThis will allow you to create an Exit Ticket for that days lesson using the different question formats that are availible without spending any additonal money. Many of the other apps that allow you to create polls will give you so many free polls before they begin to charge you, this however would not work for a teacher trying to create polls after every days lesson. Google Forms allows you to do this for free. The best part is that the data from the Exit Tickets you created will go direclty into a spreadsheet that can be shared with colleguaes as necessary or kept for personal documentation. If you have a google chrome account the students responses will be automatically acesible to you allowing you to see immediatly what you students do and do not understand from that days lesson. This app is very user friendly in my opinion and could easily be used by your students on a daily basis. To download Google Forms on the app store, click here.
teacher kit
TechEDGE's podcast on Exit tickets and formative assessments talks about the app TeacherKIT. TeacherKIT is great for so many reasons in the classroom. It is a great tool for classroom management. It helps to not make managing your classroom feel like a chore. It allows teacher to take attendance, and record in their gradebook with ease. It also adds value and impact to your everyday classroom. TeacherKIT is availible on both your iPad and ocmputer so it is very versittile. It allows you to provide an exit ticket for your students at the end of class making it very easy to recieve feedback from your students. This app is an all around great app to use in the classroom by providing you with many tools which can make day to day tasks much easier. To download TeacherKIT on the app store click here.
Socrative STudent
TechEDGE's podcast on Exit Tickets and formative assessments talks about Socrative Teacher and Socrative Student. These apps would be used in conjuction with eachother and the apps would be downloaded accordingly. This is a great way to get information from students both throughout the lesson and as an Exit Ticket. As the teacher you have the ability to create your own quizes and send those out to students for them to complete. The thing that I like most about Socrative is that it comes with pre-made exit tickets that you can use everyday. As the teacher you can say start the exit ticket quiz and it will throw the pre-generated questions to your students and allows you to see the results in real time as they are being answered. This app can also be linked to your google account allowing you to receive the data from that days quiz as if you have created a google form. This is a great way to get quick exit tickets without actually having to prepare anything in advance that day. To download socrative teacher in the app store, click here, and to download socrative student, click here.