Week 2

googledocs.com

Google Docs is an awesome website that I use and continue to use. Each time I go on it seems I learn something new. For this assignment, I went in and played with the designing, creatively of different times of forms. The site had many different templates, almost 72. I used old forms and made them look Grand.

For my classroomI used Excel spreadsheet to score and assess my classroom assignments, tests, quizzes, and surveys. I piggy-back with Google Docs to create the type of form I want to use. When the students answer their form, all the answers go straight to an excel spreadsheet. The great things with having the answers go to a spreadsheet include the following:

• Students enjoy doing assignments and tests online, with no physical handwriting
• I can grade looking at on single piece of paper. No flipping pages.
• Excel has formulas to compute class averages on a single answer or the assignment as a whole
• Excel can let me graph the results if I would like
• Answer immediately goes to spreadsheet, no missing assignments. I can look before anyone leaves at one page to make sure students have submitted theirs.

Since I am a special education teacher, we have to monitor IEP progress of each student’s goals. I use mathematical percentages for mine. I send a form to all teachers and have them fill it out on each student. All the information goes straight to the spreadsheet. I can grade all the answers on one sheet.