Forms

Blog: Reflect on how you might use Google Forms 1) in your practice and 2) for your Touro action research/capstone project. What might be the best uses for your particular situation?
If you already have been using Google Forms in your practice, explain how you currently use them and what you might do to extend your knowledge to new applications/situations.

I currently utilize forms to obviously organize the information I am looking to collect as well as the data charts for analysis. As seen in the URLs I use it anywhere from surveying students about mathematics to again surveying students to evaluate changes made for an Innovative Learning Environment Project grant initiated and funded by our district that required subsequent data. What I find appealing is the ability to both control the information as well as to provide a vehicle to quickly theme open-ended questions. Lastly, collecting the information is one thing, doing something with it is truly where the value comes in to play, all assuming it collected legitimately, i.e., large scale sentiment surveys should reflect a randomized sample of participants to avoid polarization, e.g., those either extremely satisfied or dissatisfied. 

In terms of my capstone I have already used forms to collect data from students about maths and plan to continue using it for that purpose. I can see greater potential in soliciting my maths teachers, but there are only 5 of them and they collaborate as a department twice weekly, ergo, no real need for a form. Not having a solid idea of what the capstone is to be - me being honest here - I am not sure how else I might use forms.

In terms of extending my knowledge, I am a huge fan of the Function Keys, so Keeler's Keyboard Shortcuts are right up my ally - super efficient. I will need work on the spreadsheet set up, but I see it as a tool definitely worth exploring, supported by both Keeler and Marsden's youtube tutorials. Lastly, the purpose driven uses provided by Miller show how specific needs can be met, again, distilling down something much bigger to something oober specific and therefore more useful.