Google Forms

Last week, I attended a session on using Google Forms. I never thought of the wide range of uses this could have for a teacher. I've already made a survey for the teachers in my building about who is using the Book It program this year. I've been wondering, and it's always nice to know what expectations different classrooms have. Now I'll have that information in one place! Another use I'll be using Google Forms for is for our book fair. We always track reading minutes and I've tried several different methods. It almost always comes down to me adding up minutes by hand and takes lots of time. I've now created a Google Form that has students enter simple information so Google can do all of that legwork for me and I can focus on all the other things I need to do. One idea that was shared might be helpful for our SPED teachers. It was a simple form about student behavior: Is the student sitting correctly in the chair (yes or no) and Is the student working on the assignment (yes or no). Paras could use this simple form to report on how students are doing, especially by linking the form to an app button on an iPad or iPhone. When they submit the information, it is put into a spreadsheet that can be shown as a graph to visually see how a particular student is doing. The spreadsheet also has a date and time stamp so you can look for patterns and problem times.