It all started back in middle school when I get my hands on the quizzes in my Brio Magazine: What Kind of Friend Are You? Take this Quiz to Find Out!!! Do You Hold Grudges? Take this Quiz to Find Out!!!
My BFF Kayla and I would sit around, read the questions, and figure out who we were based on the questions in a magazine.
Today, instead of magazine questionaires we have BuzzFeed and Facebook. The quiz format is different but the experience is the same:
What Decade Should You Have Been Born In? - 1950s
What Disney Princess Are You? - Belle
What Shoe Fits Your Personality? - Heels
The list goes on and on!! I see Google Forms as a way to use BuzzFeed in school! The draw is similar, the results are much more educationally significant than learning that my personality color is yellow.
The first form I created followed the directions in the "beginner" section of our assignment. The form I created could be used near the beginning of the school year to get some more information from students as well as introduce them into the world of Google Forms.
The second form I created related to Minnesota and World War 2. This quiz is pretty basic and just uses the questions from our unit assessment. I like the idea of using Flubaroo to grade Google Form assignments and also really appreciate that you can add weight to certain questions. I also totally love that Flubaroo creates a new page in your spreadsheet when it grades the form. I think that the process is really simple and user friendly.
Holy Moly! Creating a branching form is TIME CONSUMING!!! In Social Studies the way I see this type of form being most successful is if I were to use it with Geography Skills. Last year we did a stations activity where students took pre-test and then we assigned them skill stations based on deficits shown in the pre-test. It was fun and worked well but ultimately required a ton of grading and work! This type of form would be able to replace all of that. The form I created gives and example of something that could done, but is definitely a rough example without high questions! :)
Whew!! 3 forms created and embedded! Now, I am headed back to BuzzFeed, I just can't resist finding out what pattern I am!! :)
Stacey, those all look great! I hope those are all forms that you will be able to use this year in your class!
ReplyDeleteOMG - I got Brio magazine too! And I took all the quizzes you linked! (1960s, Mulan, & flip flops)
ReplyDeleteYour forms look awesome. I love that video clips...great intro! I love the introduction questions. After the video you could ask "What else should be included in this overview video of MN?" This would give an insight into how much kids know (or don't know) about our state. And yes, you're right - if we were doing the stations again, a google form would be a great way to do that!
2 Things:
ReplyDelete1. How did you get your embedded forms to be nice and small? Mine are too big and go outside of the box where the rest of my post is (if that makes any sense). It is driving me crazy!
2. This girl I went to middle school & high school with was really into Brio magazine and she won some sort of contest and became the "Brio girl." She got to go on some big trip to the Brio headquarters and had her face on the cover of one of the issues of the magazine. She might have had an article published in it or a column or something. I totally forgot about that until I read this blog post! Lol...
Jessica,
DeleteWhen you embed something, the code include dimensions that you can adjust to the size you like.
Stacy,
ReplyDeleteI also liked how easy Flubaroo was to use with a google form. However, I didn't think it worked so well with branching forms. Not sure if you tried that out or what your experience was. I also just need more practice with it, too.