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Monday, March 26, 2012

Google Forms

We were asked to make a Google form.   I decided to make mine about math, since that is what I got my undergrad in.  My form is about your math background.  I made it to learn more about people’s math background and past math experiences. 






Google forms is actually a pretty neat tool.  You can create online quizzes, surveys, or any type of questionnaire you want.  There are many different question types you can use that all send data straight into a useable spreadsheet.  With these answers you could even do statistical analysis testing to determine various outcomes.

You are also able to add themes to your survey/questionnaire in order to make it more visibly appealing to those who are taking it.  Help text is also an option to make it easier for your participants to answer your questions. 
Once you have a form made, you can share it with the public or if you’d rather you could share it with your choice of people.  I chose to chare mine with the public.  When I clicked Share on Google Docs I made it open to the public so that you didn’t have to be a Google Docs user or logged into your Google account to fill it out.  I shared it with my Google circle, emailed it to a few students in my class, and posted the link on Facebook in order to get a good number of people to take it. 

Forms and surveys like this could be used in professional life.  Being a teacher you could use this for qualitative and quantitative research data collecting.  There are various types of questions and all give you various outputs of data that can be manipulated and used.  You can view the form as embedded into another website or by clicking a hyperlink on a webpage or in an email.  There are various views including; the Live Form, the spreadsheet, and the summary of the results.  The form is basically a nice mask for the spreadsheet.  You could ask people to fill in their answers on a spreadsheet to use later or you could give them a visually appealing and better explained Google Form so that it is easier on them and you end up with the data organized into a spreadsheet for you.  Like I said earlier, there are many ways to share the survey.  You can publish it to public on Google, you can email it to whomever you please, you can embed it into a website, or even hyperlink it into a website.  The results can be viewed upon competition of the survey in a summary of the results or you can view them in spreadsheet format. 

 ISTE NETS T - Standard 1 & 2- Standard 1. During this activity, students are expected to complete an assignment using digital tools, technology system and media (Google Forms). Students are expected to be active in their own learning and understanding of the content. Digital communication aides in the advancement of resources and support. Standard 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments. This assignment was to design and develop an assessment/survey digitally. 

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