EDCT 203 Assignment # 7 : Survey (Form) in Google Docs

What do you think are the three best ways of using Google Forms in this article?

After reading this article I feel like the three best ways of using Google Forms in this article are:

• Get to know your class.  I especially liked this one because part of my teaching philosophy is to create a community within my classroom, and I must be a part of that community.  Therefore, I must know my students apart from their academic selves. Making a form like this one is just one great way a teacher can get to know his or her students.  I was even thinking that a teacher could make a new form with new questions at intervals throughout the year. That way he or she is always learning about students.
• Library book review. I picked this one out because of how I could utilize it in my future language arts classroom.  I would love my students to have "silent reading time" in my classroom. A time when they can read what they want to read.  This form would be great for students to evaluate books for each other--that way they could see a preview before they began reading. 
• Prior learning assessment. I think this form is very practical and beneficial to any classroom.  It could save the teacher a lot of time by letting them know exactly what the students remembered and absorbed. If he or she decides from the the results of this form that they need to review, they then know exactly what needs reviewed.  This is also a way for students to gauge their understanding.

  What are possible ways for you to use Google Forms in your classrooms?

I could use Google Forms in my classroom in a variety of ways.  In addition to the variations above, I could foresee myself creating forms for my students to give me feed back on lessons and how they feel about certain topics such as group work.  I could also utilize forms to do movie critiques.  For example, when reading Pride and Prejudice, we could watch the movie as a supplement and then for a Google form to compare and contrast the two.  How were they similar and different, and why. There are so many different ways I could use Google Forms in my classroom, and I can definitely see myself using them in the future!

Here is a link to a Google Form I created:

Language Arts and Technology