Often I am amazed by Google. They have a program, like Google Sheets, and random people write add-ons or script editors to make it better. It is like a giant "suggestion" box that actually gets read and the suggestions get tried out and turned into real solutions.
I explored all the add-ons and sometimes I feel like I need the background context of why the add-ons was created to understand how or why I would use it. For example, when I explored Row Call, I couldn't really understand when I would use it. Then, I found a youtube video made the mother of the writer of Row Call. She explained how she graded student work using a rubric on a google form. Her finished spreadsheet was all the students' grades for that one assignment. She then used Row Call to split each student into their own spread sheet page...so she had a grade book page for each student. A-ha! I get it. Here is a link to the video. I liked Form Limiter, but I rarely need to but a time limit on a form. I could imagine teachers using it when they need a limited number of parents to sign up for field trips, or kids to sign up for projects. I would want to play around with in more and see how to limit certain columns but still allow other columns. Choice Eliminator 2 is great. Instantly, I think of signing up for Parent Conferences, because this is always a nightmare for teachers. However, there is a huge Warning from the writer stating that the program doesn't work when multiple people log in at the exact same time (like during Back to school night). However, I thought of 2 work arounds. #1 Have one computer set up in the room during Back to School night, so that parents can only sign up one at a time. And/or #2 send out a link to the conference sign up so that parents can sign up later and not all at the same time. I have used Auto-Crat to create mail merge type documents before. It is a bit trickier and probably wouldn't be used as much by teachers at my school, unless they were the techie teachers. Form Mule is my new fav! I love that it can easily send an email thank you, or response. I used it with both of my "sample" google forms. For this weeks assignment I created a prototype of a form that many teachers at my school could use during back to school night. I will need to add/refine it for next year. Then each teacher can copy the basic form and edit it to their classroom needs.Here is the link to the "Super Back to School Night Form". It includes:
The other google form I created was to get feedback about my logo from this cohort. I played around with the various logo making sites and I realized that Canva had a logo making section as well. I have used Canva before and found that it had a few graphic design tools that I wanted, like you could make some colors transparent. I could not decide if I wanted my logo to read "Talk to Learn" or "Talk 2 Learn". So I created a google for with branching questions. Then I added some color choices. This form will hopefully give me some great feedback as to the most effective and appealing logo. It also allowed me to use google forms in an authentic way. Here is the link to the Logo google form. Feel free to fill it out, I would love all the feedback I can get.
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Kris
6/18/2017 11:13:55 pm
I really like that you are finding ways to use the add-ons. That was difficult at first. I found that formLimiter was really the only one I might use, for an assignment for students, you would want to know that they did it by the deadline. If not, they often get late-credit but in high school, you need to get students used to deadlines.
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Todd
6/19/2017 01:55:18 pm
Becky,
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Jennifer Wade
6/19/2017 02:28:42 pm
Becky,
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