Saturday, February 26, 2011

Google Forms

I have had an opportunity to use the Google Forms on two occasions (where I was the creator).  I am impressed at the instant feedback of responses that you get and how neatly organized and clear the data is.  I could see myself using this in the classroom in a variety of subject areas.  I created a homophone quiz that could easily be shared with students.  Quizzes of all varieties can be used to access students' learning.

Our middle level team is fortunate because we share a cart of netbooks.  These netbooks could be used frequently giving all students access to the forms.  I could even foresee using the Google Forms as a daily component of my lesson as a formative assessment (or exit slip).

The Google Forms do not need to simply be an assessment tool.  I would like to have students develop questions to get to know each other at the beginning of the school year.  The summary component shares the data in a very user-friendly way where students could compare themselves to their peers with ease.

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