This week in CALL class has been exciting. We were introduced to Socrative and Grockit; both great tools for CALL ESL teaching. Thus far, I have used Socrative in my CALL class. The students enjoyed the quiz, at least, from my perspective. The Socrative interface is simple, clean and sleek. The colors are also soothing, if that makes any sense, and makes the quiz low-pressure. I tested my students on grammar--present progressive, simple and active/passive. They were quite familiar with each of those, except a few had no idea about active and passive. One of my students said to me "I'm sorry Miss, but this class doesn't matter," after I told him to get to work. It was painful to hear that, but I did not take offense. I realize the repuation of CALL in the PIE. It is lax; students feel as though the course has no significance. From my perspective, they feel this way about all classes. Anyway, I enjoyed using Socrative with my students. I also gave a shot at using Google Doc. This was not successful. My students were being very silly on the google doc, typing exploitives and crude sentences, deleting others' work, and deleting the entire prompt. I will not be use Google Documents, again... though, I do understand their desire to be silly, as even our class was silly with the google document activity in class on Monday. The anonymity allows for humor which is something we all need!
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