Google Forms -- Session 3 assignment

Google forms is a google product that allows users to create an embeddable multi-question form that can be used for a variety of purposes.  Data collected from this form is fed directly into a google "sheet" where the information can be manipulated just like any spreadsheet of data.  Google forms have data entry formats that include text, paragraph text, multiple choice, check boxes, choose from a list, scale, and grid.

This tool could be used in a variety of ways to enhance teaching.  Examples include using it as a survey to find out more about your students or homework could even be done this way.  Actually, with paragraph text entries, the information for this assignment could have been collected there.

My learning curve for this tool was initially straight up.  It was not very intuitive when you select "Form" from the drop down tab in google documents and you get what appears to be a google sheet.  Once we found the "Edit Form" command in the menu it was incredibly easy to figure out.  The only other thing that wasn't immediately apparent had more to go do with how the blog editor works than google forms.  To embed the form into a blogger.com blog, you have to select the "Edit HTML" tab at the top-right of the editor and then paste in the information that google forms gives you under "Form - embed form in a webpage".  If you just want to put in a link to the live form you can do that, instead, which is a little more straight forward and would be very simple to do on any webpage.

As a group, honestly, we didn't do very much together.  We individually looked at the tool and made a couple questions.  Mine were the monty python references.  I also figured out how to do the linking and embedding.

So, here is the URL for the form with all the data.  Here is the link to the "live form".  Below is what the form looks like embedded into a blog.

Thanks for reading!