For a fast, easy way to create collaboration (albeit sometimes silent collaboration) in your classroom, look no further than Google forms. Google forms allows the teacher (or the student) to create quick surveys or quizzes that support text, images, and videos. The form creator can also add helpful hints within each question. The questions can be in the form of short text, long paragraphs, multiple choice, and more. You may recall the poll I sent out for our Lego Robotics competition. Notice that I was able to embed video, links and text as part of my multiple choice questions. It took me all of two minutes to create:
The great thing about Google forms is that once the masterpiece is created, it can so easily be shared. Simply hit the send button in the top right hand corner and there is an option to embed the link to your form onto another website, such as a blog, email the form, or copy and paste the link to the form. The settings can be established so that only one response per person can be submitted. The owner of the form can see the responses in percentage format or as individual responses. Google forms is simple but powerful and well worth giving a try.
