Terry's Tech Tips

Presentation season is upon us!  In many classrooms around CCHS, students will complete research and create Google Slides to present findings to their teacher and classmates. One of the challenges for teachers is being able to both observe and provide grading/feedback during presentations.  It feels awkward to have your laptop open, and the computer can feel like a barrier to fully engaging in the presentation.  Paper rubrics feel friendlier for this task.  But you must keep up with the paper and share the feedback with students. What to do?  Create a Google Form and use your phone to document your observations!  Most rubrics are constructed similarly to this CCHS Presentation Skills Rubric: You can quickly create a  Linear Scale question for each row  in Google Forms: You will see the options presented like this: Once the form is complete, email yourself the link.  While students present, use your phone to...

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience. ―  John Dewey Google Forms is a workhorse in the classroom.  It can be an information gatherer, a quiz, an assignment collector, feedback gatherer, and a place for students to reflect on their learning. The Rivers & Revolution program relies heavily on Google Forms to support their learning process. Supporting the Learning Cycle: Rivers has four major units of study.  At the culmination of each unit, students create a major artifact to reflect their learning.  This artifact is either an extension activity of the unit's work or a related area of interest chosen by the student.  While the student may choose from a wide range of artifacts, they will eventually represent their artifact digitally - either in an image, video, or another digital format. Pre-Work: Students are provided a comprehensive artifact overview including expectations and possible artifacts ...

Google Forms are magic - they are so flexible!  They give you an easy way to:     collect information get feedback or check for understanding collect digital assignments gather student reflections of lesson or unit obtain formative assessment data create review packets Click on the caption below the graphic to see some samples of Google Forms hard at work in the classroom.  Many of the examples are from your fellow colleagues! Click here for active links Creating a Form: Navigate to forms.new  to create a new Google Form.  Or go to  forms.google.com where there are Forms templates, or New>Form from Google Drive. (Tip:  You can create any new Google app by typing in Slides.new , Docs.new , or  Sheets.new for example.) Google Forms offer many different question types, allowing you lots of flexibility to accomplish your goal for using the form!  Note that you can  collect student work  u...

Teachers strive to differentiate their course materials, providing students with exactly the learning support they need at exactly the right time.   But, accomplishing this exact timing and managing the process can sometimes be challenging! Enter Google Forms   as Quizzes!    Stephanie Omobono Stephanie Omobono (new to CCHS this year in the Math Department) attended a Google Forms as Quizzes training at CCHS. After seeing some of the features, she decided to use the power of Google Forms to provide a differentiated Review Packet  for her students! (Those of us who haven't seen Geometry in years - don't get bogged down in the math, just follow the flow!) Stephanie used these powerful features available in Google Forms: Stephanie created a Google Form and used the option to make it a Quiz . Making a Google Form a Quiz allows you to set the correct answer for each question .(Question types supported:  multiple choice, checkbox...