Every cloud has a silver lining...

Not a good start to February - keyboard on laptop has broken so I have had to abandon using clickers in my lectures until it is repaired. Needs to be sent back to Fujitsu so will take at least two weeks. However, students disappointment at no clickers has inspired me to try Socrative. The vast majority of my students indicated they had either mobile / tablet or laptop which they could get wifi access on. So after a day of trial and error I manage to build a lecture around using Socrative. My own feelings - I miss the integration with Powerpoint (specially the TurningPoint ribbon) but I can see a way of letting students work at their own pace. It was The students view - they missed the clickers, they felt they were too tempted to use the phones for social media as well as having difficulties with connecting to wifi. They missed the instant feedback of clickers. However I did overcome somewhat the following day by showing them the right versus wrong inputs. Decision point: Socrative was worth pursuing for my Mobile Learning Project instead of ThingLink.