Kahoot Tutorial
Check out the link above to watch an easy to follow tutorial on how to use Kahoot in your teaching!
This is not only a resource that is useful to music educators, but to any educator looking for an easy, fast, and fun assessment! It requires some planning ahead of time, (but what good assessment doesn't?) and can be played in game mode, as a fun competition between students, or simply used as a review.
Teachers can register with their school for FREE (yes, FREE), and create multiple quizzes on their account. These quizzes all have a "game pin" which students use to log in to that specific game or quiz on their own device.
When you have finished creating your quiz, you can give students the game pin, they login and create a nickname. When all students have logged in, you can start the quiz. If the quiz is in game mode, the object is to get the most correct answers in the shortest amount of time. If the quiz is not in game mode, it simply tracks the number of correct answers. This allows teachers to choose the sort of environment they'd like to set up, and can choose to create a competition, with incentive and reward for good results. Of course, this can also be done with good results on a regular quiz!
All scores get reported back to the teacher's account, so you can track how each student is doing.
In music, this would be very helpful for a music theory class, as you can insert graphics. This would be helpful in quickly identifying key signatures, rhythm reading, solfege reading, history, and much more.
Let me know how you would use Kahoot in your classroom setting!
Hi Liana
ReplyDeleteI visited Kahoot’s website and play with it. Super-easy, quick and very friendly. I think it would be great for your application as your intention is to test or evaluate students. The only drawback is that you can’t have a learning content along with the quizzes.
Thanks for sharing Kahoot!
Hi Liana, I have seen Kahoot in action and it was very entertaining!
ReplyDeleteand a great way to review material and teach new facts.
This app is FANTASTIC. Seriously. And it can be used to an even greater effect.
ReplyDeleteI've seen instructors not only reward students who end a game with the highest overall score, but who reward students who ever enter the Top 5 scores within a given question window. This made students even MORE likely to perform to their fullest. The time-based scoring system really helped move things along at a more-than-efficient pace, too. I really like the use of this app!
Hi Liana
ReplyDeleteVery useful education application! The part of quiz tutorial reminds me of the quiz that I have to take in my courses. :) The only thing I would worry about is that my students may google the answers when they take quizzes. The discussion and survey parts are also important. I think it is significant to get the feedback from my students so that I can make progress.