Use 3 different Add-ons on one Form and do a review on your experience:
From the list of Add-ons above, use at least three of these in your form to see how they work. If you already have data collected you might choose to explore Auto-Crat, or RowCall. After your experience I would like you to write a blog review of the Add-ons you chose and what hurdles you encountered and your overall experience. Blog Disclaimer: I wasn’t able to get a chance in the last week and a half to actually create a google form and have my kids partake in it, but I watched a few video tutorials of the add-ons below and provided my thoughts, and I did download three add-ons that I plan on using in the next week or so. Sorry, my curriculum at this time just didn’t allow for any extra time for this right now. FormMule: I love the idea of having an email template where we can send out emails to multiple students, however at Napa High we don’t have the culture set where students are checking their devices on a daily basis. I could see using this sometime in the future if I had the time to pre-load all my students emails and even my parents emails into FormMule, so I could send home reminders about projects, HW, and even use it for positive and negative reinforcement. I do enjoy when students email me, and they’re getting better and better at it...I’m afraid of the Pandora’s Box I’d be opening up if I started communicating with all 160 of my students and their parents in a larger way. I feel like I’d be spending tremendous amounts of time emailing. When I went to download this add-on, it asked me to log into my tu.edu account, and that’s the drive it started using when I started to play around with it. I don’t know enough to know if I was doing it right, but I think if I was going to use this I would want to use my nvusd.org account so I can use it with my students. Where are add-ons icons and access stored after you download them? DocAppender: I’m feeling very overwhelmed and very underprepared because I never use google forms, I feel like in order to access the full benefits from this add-on, I would need to be a teacher that uses google forms much more often, and is much more familiar with it, until them, I feel lost playing with this add-on, and reviewing it. Are there tutorial videos somewhere that show you HOW to do this and what the benefits are? Holy crap! I just answered my own question there by watching a 12 minute Youtube video about how to use DocAppender, and now I think I might be even more confused...Can I apply DocAppender today to a google form that I did a year ago, or does DocAppender need to be a current add-on when I set up a new google form that I’m going to use? How can I use this in a high school math class? formLimiter: Again, I watched a video about how formLimiter works, and it does seem like a functional asset for google forms, but two things: I don’t use google forms enough, and I can’t imagine how I would use it for high school math. I did download the add-ons Flubaroo, g(Math), and Super Quiz, which I would like to use sometime in the near future with my students. Flubaroo and Super Quiz are both ways of giving assessments through google forms and then they help you analyze and organize your data afterwards, they both instantly grade your (simple) quizzes for you and show you all the answer responses. g(Math) looked like a pretty cool add-on especially for math, it allows both the google form creator and participant to use “equation editor” type functions on a google form, to use exponents, subscript, rational function lines, etc., to make the math look more appropriate.
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Kristin Pruitt
2/26/2017 07:12:07 pm
Like you I didn't have time to create a Google Form to use with my class. I had to make a dummy survey to test out a couple of the add-ons. I think the formMule might be easy for us Elementary teachers. We wouldn't have to manage as many email addresses as you high school teachers. It would also be easier to get them to check their email. Our biggest obstacle in all of this is 1:1 devices. I have 19 chromebooks to 32 students and 36 students during ELA. So the quiz or test given with google form would have to take place within one class period to prevent sharing!!
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2/27/2017 02:54:51 am
Hi, Joe ~ Here are some answers to the questions in blue that are within your blog. First, the icon for Google Form (GF) add-ons will be at the top right of your screen, directly to the left of the color palette. The Add-on icon for GF looks like Thor's Hammer to me. Next, the tutorial videos for DocAppender can be found at http://cloudlab.newvisions.org/learn/resources with a list of videos on the left sidebar. Also, you can add this extension to a GF you created in the past. Read my blog. I can also show you how to do it; we can meet on Zoom or in person. I made the same offer to Suzeth--perhaps, the three of us can get together to play with the applications we're least comfortable with. Lastly, you could use the DocAppender to present your collected data in a manner that is different from the standard GF Response page, which cannot be manipulated (you print it as is, either in summary form or on indivdual sheets per student); whereas, with DocAppender, the data can be presented in different formats and can be copy pasted in a variety of ways. I'm definitely not an expert about DocAppender, but I will help as much as I can to get you somewhat comfortable with it. I know you would help me, too, if and when I need it. Let me know if you'd like to play tech apps with Suzeth and me. ~ Julie
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Joe Madigan
2/27/2017 08:01:54 pm
Thanks Julie for the offer, I did see in Suzeth's blog that you offered to help her as well, perhaps we can talk in class on Wednesday night, and set up a time to play with GF and some add-ons. I do have some ideas of a direction that I want to go. Another frustration that I have right now, is that even though I have a survey that I'd like to give to my students, I only have 5 devices in my classroom, and only about 8 kids bring devices, so we'd have to share, and that would make it take even longer...I could toy with the idea of assigning it as hw, or they could use their phones...thanks, Joe.
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2/28/2017 10:02:48 pm
I didn't even understand that we were supposed to create a form to use with our own students. I thought I needed to just try out the forms and add ons. I've been struggling since last Friday with these add ons. I am interested in the survey forms. That seemed the easiest I could make. The rest of the stuff seemed like a jungle to me. I tried it, but gave up when I got lost with the technology. Thanks for sharing your experiences with these forms.
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