Things 25 - 28 - Formative Assessment with Technology

I had fun checking out these different resources, and love the idea of using technology for formative assessments.  I think that it will be a new and fun way for my students to be assessed.  I have always traditional methods (paper & pencil, discussions) to asses my students throughout our units.  After working with these different tools, I'm excited to incorporate some of them in my classroom this year.
Google Forms & Flubaroo:
I liked exploring Google Forms & Flubaroo.  I had never used either of them before exploring them for this course.  I found Forms easy to use in creating my quiz, and love how you can enable Flubaroo to help grade the quizzes.  I like the variety of quiz questions that Forms allows you to use (multiple choice, true & false, short answer).  I could definitely see myself and my grade level colleagues creating quizzes for some of our social studies and science units throughout the year.  I think the students will like being able to use a Chromebook or Ipad to take an 'assessment'.

Socrative:  
Like Google Forms/Flubaroo I found Socrative easy to use.  I found these two to be pretty similar, but Socrative might be a little more 'attractive' to the students in that each question is on its own page, instead of all the questions being on one like Google Forms.  I do like the variety of questions that Socrative allows you to create, and really liked that you could type in an explanation.  I could see myself using Forms more than Socrative because of it saving in the drive.  As I'm trying to be more 'Googly', it would be nice to know that I have everything in one place.

Here is my socrative:  SOC-23228968

Kahoot:
Kahoot is awesome!  When I was exploring it my 2nd grader to be couldn't get enough of it.  I had heard about it from some other teachers in the district, but this was my first time really getting to check it out.  I love that there are MILLIONS of created Kahoots out there, yet it will be fun to create my own this year.  I can see myself doing weekly/biweekly Kahoots with my class (Kahoot Fridays)...I know that they will love it.  I see myself having to do some practice Kahoots so the kids will take the time to read the questions/answers without just making it a total speed game.
Overall I think that it is great!

Padlet:
My first exposure to Padlet was at one our of district institute days, and I thought it was pretty cool.  I liked that you could pose a question or thought, and get so many people involved.  After exploring the site on my own I could see how (with practice) I could use this with my students to share out their thoughts and ideas on different topics.  I would love to see if our resource director could help me introduce this with my class.  I think that this could be an effective tool especially for some of those kids that are hesitant to share their answers out loud in a group setting.