Google Apps: Part 4

Forms

     This assignment took me back to Ed Tech in undergrad. I created the quiz, "What kind of cat are you?" however, I could not relocate it. I made a new form instead titled, "How Patriotic are you?" 

Here is the link to my quiz, find out how patriotic you are and take it!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fS4CHPYfE7a_hm5Olw5LRznKW6ugCz6L7cOWC5BG2UE/viewform?usp=send_form

     What I like about Google Forms is that is automatically creates a spreadsheet telling the creator what choices students or peers made. This spreadsheet is recorded based on time, which is also a good tool for teachers if their was a deadline for this assignment or there was a specific time limit placed on the assignment.

Here is the link for the spreadsheet based on the form results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hFAV9MfVdz_0Q0xeD5uUobJxWb5q_8OJlDA2vEmRzJU/edit?usp=sharing 

     There is also quite a bit of ease with the forms that makes this applications attractive to young and older students. What is so easy and nice about it is that it does all the calculating and recording onto the spreadsheet for you. Google Forms are ideal for surveys. I can see this as an opening assignment in a classroom. A teacher could easily create a survey about the student and ask the students to complete it. With the students seeing the teacher use it, they will also gain some experience as to how the form works. I love the self scoring feature because it allows the teacher or student to focus the time they would have used calculating all the answers on something else.

     As far as incorporating this application into standards, this could happen a variety of ways. Many of the standards that can associate with google forms is the student's idea of expressing information, formulating thoughts, answering questions and more. The book mentions the standard, "Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization,development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience." When integrating google forms into common core, that could mean the creation of the form coming from the student or the teacher! Students can easily make forms to gather information from a topic, or gain perspective from other students. Teacher's can gain the student's perspective from how they respond in the form.

     I created a new self grading quiz using Google Forms. It was difficult to understand at first, due to my lack of knowledge towards formulas. I did things one by one at first, before I realized you could do it all together. This took me a while to complete due to my lack of ability to complete spreadsheets. Some things I had a very difficult time understanding, but when using this is the classroom I can see they would be helpful, but I could also see the task being done without the function. I think the question analysis is a great application, but it confused me greatly, maybe with more practice I could understand it, but I failed many times at it. I also think this data can be recovered from an overall glance at all the answers from students.

Here is my actual quiz:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FT_l71JJOA_jcfnCKKUBoSIxTgsHC39GT7HQqXZY2t8/viewform?usp=send_form

This is my data sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n59QnU0-8ituMB1jHfTA1rHMuoTo8Wd1UkowTl-ETes/edit?usp=sharing