By far,
my favorite Google App is Google Forms. This program is so absolutely
versatile. Most of you have used Google Forms to submit survey answers and didn’t
even realize it.
Some great
uses for Google Forms:
- Collect unique info about students at the start of the school year. It can be completed by parents and step parents (or anyone else who provides care for the child) and it can be resubmitted if information changes. Great tool for learning about your students.
- Special Ed teachers can gather information from teachers (and/or parents) to prepare for IEPs or SSTs.
- Administrators can conduct their classroom walk-throughs and take quick notes
- PTAs can use it to find volunteers for their big events
- Knowledge Brokers (see Tech Tidbits 6.5) can submit resources anytime to the teacher
- Elementary sites can submit hot/cold lunch counts to the cafeteria
- Create self-grading quizzes in conjunction with a plug-in called Flubaroo (easier than it sounds, I promise)
- SPED instructional assistants can track student behavior for the SPED teacher
- Turn independent reading logs into a paper free resource by posting
- the responses online (talk to me about this one if you’re interested)
- Collect lab data so students have more than one data set with which to work and analyze
- Students can submit information prior to parent/teacher conferences
- Report (anonymously, if desired) incidents of bullying
- Collect questions from students before class meets to better prepare for the next lesson
- Students can submit suggested test questions
- Submit book suggestions to library staff
- Students can provide feedback to the teacher on how they learn best based on a learning style inventory or multiple intelligences assessment
- Submit lab write-ups
- Complete Group/Peer/Self evaluations after a large project
- Exit surveys for teachers/staff on what may need repairing before the next school year starts
- Students can conduct their own surveys to gather data for an experiment or a problem-based learning activity
Search YouTube for instructional videos – they’re short and to the
point. You can pause the video as you follow the steps.
