What has been or now is your experience with Google Forms? Is it intuitive? What challenges did you encounter when building your form? Do you think this tool would be beneficial for your teaching practice?
I have only used Google Forms a handful of times when I was seeking feedback from our staff following a few professional development mini-trainings that I led. It was very intuitive and I liked the variety of response options such as multiple choice, scaled ratings, and short answer. I never had any official training to produce my survey so it couldn’t have been too tricky! I don’t remember encountering any challenges with building the form, but it was a bit frustrating to not know when someone had replied to the survey unless I checked the spreadsheet. I hadn’t previously thought about how to use Forms with students, but I am very excited after reading the article “The NEW Google Forms: 9 Classroom Uses.” I learned about a Google Add-On feature (which is also new to me) called Awesome Table. I played around with it a bit and I am still not completely clear if it is user friendly enough for me to use with my elementary students. One feature I especially want to find out more about is how it takes the responses and creates colorful graphs/pie charts. This ties in perfectly with my driving question about how to help students visualize their monthly reading progress. I plan on reaching out to our district technology guru and hopefully getting his take on if this might be a useful tool for me. Stay tuned!
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I think there's a way to check an option so that you get a new email every time you get a new response. In the new version of Forms click over to the responses portion and in the upper right there are those three little dots, click on those and the first option is "Get email notifications from new responses." This might get irritating if you're expecting a lot of responses, but maybe you could set if after a week so that you only get notifications when the stragglers complete it.
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Florencia
2/7/2017 06:44:56 pm
Dana,
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Jenny
2/11/2017 03:34:55 pm
Kate and Florencia already commented on the notification emails and the chart format of the information collected when using Google Forms. I love your idea of creating visuals for the students showing their growth and being able to use the graphs and charts over time to see individual growth. That has the potential to be very powerful and motivating! I can hardly wait to see what you come up with!
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2/12/2017 06:50:02 pm
Dana,
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Dana HandI teach Read 180 at Northwood Elementary School and I am passionate about reading (obviously!) In my "free time" I love hanging out with my 2 teenagers and taking our two dogs for long walks. Archives
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