Category: Tech tips
How to Use Google Forms in the Classroom
There are lots of free survey and polling sites (two popular options are PollDaddy and Survey Monkey), but often they limit the number of surveys you can create or how many questions you can include without ‘leveling up’ to a premium version. Among the teachers I know who are always looking for ways to save their limited pennies, Google Forms is a run-away favorite. It is intuitive, flexible, professional, can be adapted to school colors and images, and can be shared as a link or an embed. You can work alone or with colleagues and there are a wide variety of options that tweak the form to your needs.
Using available templates, a customized form can be completed in under five minutes. Responses are collected to a Google Spreadsheet that can be private or shared with participants and can be sorted and analyzed like any other spreadsheet.
Google Forms integrates well with Google Apps for Education, Google Classroom and many LMSs such as Blackboard.
How to use it
Google Forms is simple to use. Just follow these steps:
169 Tech Tip #128–Top 10 Chromebook Shortkeys
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip #128–Top Ten Chromebook Shortkeys
Category: CHROMEBOOKS
Sub-category: Keyboarding
Here’s a poster with ten Chromebook shortkeys popular in classrooms:
169 Tech Tips–Two Great Chromebook Shortkeys
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #121–Chromebook Caps Lock and #122–Chromebook Delete Key
Category: CHROMEBOOKS
Sub-category: Keyboarding
10 Digital Citizenship Articles You Don’t Want to Miss
Here are ten of the top digital citizenship resources according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers:
- 19 Topics to Teach in Digital Citizenship–and How
- Teach Digital Citizenship with … Minecraft
- How to Teach 3rd Graders About Digital Citizenship
- How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community
- Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts
- What a Teacher Can Do About Cyberbullying
- 120+ Digital Citizenship Links on 22 Topics
- Dear Otto: Should I stick with age limits on websites?
- How to Thrive as a Digital Citizen
- Book Review: Savvy Cyberkids at Home
Click for a K-8 digital citizenship curriculum
169 Tech Tips #160–14 Assessment Strategies
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #160–14 Assessment Strategies
Category: ASSESSMENTS
Sub-category: NA
These fourteen strategies are well-suited to formative assessment:
169 Tech Tip #151: 8 Popular Year-long Assessments
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #151–8 Popular Year-long Assessments
Category: ASSESSMENTS
Sub-category: Classroom management
169 Tech Tip #146: 18 Ideas for Warm-ups, Exit Tickets
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #146–18 Ideas for Warm-ups, Exit Tickets
Category: ASSESSMENTS
Sub-category: Classroom Management, Writing, Differentiation
Here are eighteen ideas for class warm-up and exit tickets:
169 Tips That Easily and Quickly Integrate Tech into Your Class
A decade ago, in an effort to buttress technology prowess in my classes and with colleagues, I started tracking how often I got the same tech questions from students, teachers, and even parents. Turns out, 70% of the time, it was the same finite group of problems.
That was a relief because—as you probably know–using technology in the classroom can be frightening, whether you’re a grade-level teacher or in charge of the lab. What if there’s a problem you don’t know how to solve, or a question you can’t answer? What if the computers break? What if they all break at once? The truth that all of us who use tech in class know is: You only have to know the big stuff. The rest you can learn with students.
The result was my popular 98 Tech Tips and my weekly tech tip column from that book. I won’t share the link because I’ve retired that book.
Why? Here’s what’s happened to technology in education in the past decade. It’s no longer enough for teachers to know how to keep the hardware working. Now, they need to understand using tech as a tool, where and how to integrate it. Tech-in-ed has grown from a tool that substitutes technology for paper and pencil. Now, it’s about using tech to redesign and modify tasks. It has as much to do with the underlying pedagogy as the overarching skills.
Turns out–while that sounds complicated, it’s not. That’s what’s in 169 Tech Tips. In these tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to so many daily tech-infused education. For example: Often, the solution to a problem is either
… reboot, restart …
… close-reopen …
or
Google it!
10 Tips About Using Images in the Classroom You Don’t Want to Miss
Here are ten of the top image tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers:
- Photos For Class–Robust, Student-safe with built in citations
- Quick Search for Plagiarized Images
- What Online Images are Free?
- Where Can I Find Kid-safe Images?
- 5 Image Apps for your Classroom
- My Picture’s a TIFF and the Program Needs a JPG
- Wrap Text Around an Image
- How to Move Pics Around in Documents
- Easy Photo Editing in MS Word
- Images (curated list by category)
Click for a lesson plan on Image Copyright Do’s and Don’ts.
10 Tips for Digital Storytelling You Don’t Want to Miss
Here are eight of the top Digital Storytelling articles according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers:
