After reading the articles "Harnessing the Power of Google Forms for Just-in-Time-Teaching" and "The NEW Google Forms..." I certainly have a better sense of how, specifically, I can use them in my classroom. Up to this point, I have only created two, and both were created to survey students in order to collect data related to my action research paper. It seemed fairly intuitive; however, I did have a problem with the order of the questions I created. When in "edit" mode, the questions were chronological, but in the view mode, my students showed me that the questions were out of order, and try as I did, I couldn't correct it.
I love the way author Keith Hamon explained his weekly use of Forms, as I feel creating activities daily or even several times a week could become a burden. Also, much of what I seek to do with technology in my classroom involves students doing the creating, not me! I like the idea of the "branching off questions" as add-ons, too, because in general, my students tend to either ask for or give each other the quiz questions from one period to the next, and it's something I'm constantly trying to combat. I could create Forms to give reading quizzes, as a pre-vocabulary test, and covering literary terms. Really, with the options of question types that teachers can create, there is a myriad of ways I could use it, were I so inclined.
I love the way author Keith Hamon explained his weekly use of Forms, as I feel creating activities daily or even several times a week could become a burden. Also, much of what I seek to do with technology in my classroom involves students doing the creating, not me! I like the idea of the "branching off questions" as add-ons, too, because in general, my students tend to either ask for or give each other the quiz questions from one period to the next, and it's something I'm constantly trying to combat. I could create Forms to give reading quizzes, as a pre-vocabulary test, and covering literary terms. Really, with the options of question types that teachers can create, there is a myriad of ways I could use it, were I so inclined.