Google Forms

Google forms is a tool that allows users to create a survey with a variety of question-type options which can then be used to collect data online. Then the results are automatically input into a tool that could be compared to the well-known Microsoft Excel  program. Multiple people can be allowed edit the form and resulting data at once. 


Some Ideas For Uses-
-I can see this being used to take surveys of how your students feel the class is going/ what improvements could be made

-Practicing democracy in the classroom

-Taking surveys, and then use that data to generate graphs so students can study graphs in a way that is meaningful to them

-Could used as a quick early assessment to evaluate the current state of your students’ understanding.

Learning Curve-
At first there was some difficulty because the form is saved in google documents in its spreadsheet version. You have to go under the forms menu and click "edit form" to make changes to the questions. However, after the five minutes it took to figure that out, everything was super easy. It's much easier to use and more versatile than any other polling program I've seen. 


My Group Contributions-
I created the initial form and document and shared it with my group members. I added a couple sentences to the definition, two bullet points to section 2, and two bullet points to section 3 on the document. I modified the "favorite color" question to include a drop-down menu and added the multiple choice "what do you think of google docs?" question. 

Links-
Live Form
Results Sheet
Document