Forms

Exploring Google forms has been another interesting adventure! I followed the tutorial to a T and it came out incorrectly. I soon realized after asking for help that I had no idea how to use this self grading aspect of the forms. Creating the actual quiz was relatively simple, however, trying to set up the formula to grade Elise's quiz was quite difficult for me. I didn't realize that clicking anywhere could freeze the form's columns or rows. With your help, I did slightly learn how to set up the self grading aspect. I still will need ALOT of practice in order to really perfect it and feel comfortable using it in a classroom though.

The lesson plan I looked at this evening was the Writing for Context, Audience, and Purpose. The lesson plan was very straight forward. Essentially the teacher asks the students to create a newsletter about their classroom for the purpose of sharing the things they have learned. The teacher separates three students to be editors. These editors must use google forms to design a poll for the class based on the shared readings, pop culture, news, or events. They will track the responses using the forms tool. On Friday those students will be asked to share their findings with the class and they will publish the web page as well.

Overall, I loved the use of the google forms for the lesson plan purpose of polling. Very interesting point of view on how to use google forms. I never thought of that before, but honestly I might be able to do something like that much easier with forms than set up my own self grading quiz! Who knows? I will continue to play with this feature of google though because I am certain that if I can learn to use it well then it will be very beneficial and time efficient.