Personally I prefer using Kahoot over Socrative for an interactive quiz involving a room. The subtle differences in engagement are that Kahoot does a good job of centralising attention on the main screen. A built in pause before the answers are displayed improves consideration of the answer, and the way answers are displayed ensures the focus remains on a central screen.
Socrative is probably superior for at your own pace self assessment. I have not used either in a *Carpentry setting yet, but it is worth considering what your educative aim is. In other contexts I have found a Kahoot quiz a great way to regather groups from individual work and redevelop cohesion for discussion or new instruction. Regs, Matt --=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-= Dr Matthew Wakefield http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wakefield/ Bioinformatics Walter and Eliza Hall Institute 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic 3052 Australia [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Senior Research Fellow Life Sciences Computation Centre Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus LAB-14, 700 Swanston St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia VLSCI, University of Melbourne [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Office Phone: +61 3 9345 2631 Mobile: +61 402 916 018 Skype Video: mjwakefield GoogleTalk: MattJWakefield Twitter & Github @genomematt orcid.org/0000-0001-6624-4698<http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6624-4698>
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