Baseball Mom Survey 

My world is surrounded with baseball since my son plays. We are always at the field for games or practices. The survey that I made was for a "baseball mom" shirt giveaway.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAyAMhKg-EUr1g5Y11TjIPR25WyRjvCjk_Fqr7fRa5_MxOWA/viewform

Blog Post 8

I had never used Google Drive until this semester for two of my graduate courses. We used it to work together on a powerpoint presentation and a research paper. Prior to this, we used the usual cut and paste to put all the parts of the paper together. It was awesome to be able to all work on the document together. As we read each person’s part we were able to edit it on the spot and not waste any time. This was a great help for group work, since due to our busy schedules, it was nearly impossible for us to meet. This was the only portion I knew about Google Drive. I had no idea how to share documents or any of its awesome features! My favorite part was definitely making a survey!

I will implement Google in my school the following ways:

1.     This lesson would be for 6^th grade social studies. Students will create a powerpoint on an inventor. They will research and cooperate to make a powerpoint presentation of 10 to 12 slides. Each student will research a different part and input all the information in the slides.

2.     Students will be use google forms to make a survey for math. They will be trained to add multiple choice, short, and long answers. Students will play the role of “teacher” and create their own tests using multiple choice, short, and long answers. They will create the test and provide me with the “key” to it. I believe students would be very engaged in making these tests. They will be able to retain more information since they will be the authors of them and have to answer them as well.

3.     This lesson could be implemented for the upper grades. Students will be put in groups of 3 and each given a story to read. Each person in the group will be in charge of answering one story element of the story (characters, setting, plot). They will create a 3 to 5 paper on the elements of the story. They will add pictures to this document. All of this would be done on the computer lab with each group sharing one google document and editing it simultaneously. I will have access to their groups so I could “jump” in at any time to monitor their work progress.

4.     One of the biggest pet peeves that we have when we do planning is having to fill out what we call week at a glance. We must break up the TEKS into weeks and type in the template what we do everyday of the 9 weeks. Breaking it down is not the hard part, inputting is! Since the master copy is done in only one computer we have to wait until the person in charge of the other subject (math, LA,SS) is done with the computer so we can use it. This takes up a long time. I would definitely use google drive so we can all be working on it at the same time. This will really help us move through the process quicker.

Overall, I loved Google Drive and all the features it entails. This is a very easy tool to use. As I progress in this class I realize how excellent using technology is. It definitely does make your life easier.