I have used Google Forms for the past two years in my work. Like anything I had my fair share of "learning" with it as a tool. Think giving a group of teachers editing privileges to the form instead of the actual form! What a tool in our tool box though, easy to make, easy to organize and track data. I utilize forms at least a few times a week (either checking data or creating new forms). Primarily I have used them as a way for teachers to provide feedback on professional learning, share their ideas and thoughts on where they want to go with their learning. My greatest struggle with them has been how to compile the data in a meaningful way for next steps. When working with our Lead Teacher group at elementary, there are usually 18-20 responses at a time, that is much more manageable. But when dealing with a larger group like the Piloting Teachers for ELA/ELD there were 82, and that was a much different objective. In the past I have taken the comments via the Summary of Responses and then put that into a Wordle, giving me an overview of what was the most common theme in questions I had asked. Again, the Pilot feedback was much high leverage and I had to work through the best way to portray the data for the Board recommendation. I learned how to create graphs right from the columns in sheets, which allowed me to manipulate what those graphs look like so they could be more in line with the Secondary group of teachers for consistency. I am currently exploring more Add-Ons within google, as I feel that has so much potential. Roll Call is one that I have worked with, which allows you to create tabs for specific Sites, grade-levels etc...I look forward to exploring more of those in hopes to enhance the data sharing experience. Autocrat is a great one that Mr. Marsden shared with us in the last class, and I am working through the best way to use this one in my work. I think I will also explore using this with my enhanced action research I am currently working on. I think presenting the data in a captivating way is half the battle. No one wants to comb through columns and rows of data in order to get a picture of what the overall feel of something was. I am open to other suggestions, I feel like this program has opened my eyes so much to the possibilities out there even just within the G-Suite. I look forward to enhancing how I use Google Forms and from hearing from others in my cohort how to use it with students.
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Becky
3/26/2017 06:18:56 pm
Karly,
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Karly Miller
3/28/2017 05:56:58 pm
Yes, it is hard to think about different uses for forms outside of feedback . But, it is a very valuable tool in our work--I can't even think what we would do without it! And I like your reference to the Mail-merge with Autocrat, it feels like it could be BETTER, but then again, I think I am still figuring out how to make it more efficient and actually help my works. More on that to come...
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Jennifer Wade
3/28/2017 05:29:38 pm
I was eager to read your post as you have provided me with the most experience with google survey forms. I can see your dilemma making sense out of too much data. I suppose the trick is too break the assessments/surveys down into smaller chunks of specific information. That sounds like more work of course. Teachers may have to fill out a few surveys instead of one longer that covers too many topics. I want to play around with it more and see what my team thinks about how we can effectively use this in primary grades. If you have thoughts, I am eager to hear them. If it requires a lot of data input on our part we are likely not to use it. We use DIBELS and that gives us all the data sorting that we need in that area, as you well know. Again, more diving in on my part is needed in order to understand all that this application has to offer. Thank you for your interesting and helpful post.
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Karly Miller
3/28/2017 05:54:30 pm
Hi Jennifer,
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