Using Google Forms for Documentation
As a former English teacher, I love the blog Two Writing Teachers. It's chock full of awesome ideas to engage and monitor student writers, and it provides great micro-doses of professional development for writing teachers, too. Last month, one of the posts featured using a Google Form to document writing progress. Wow! Wish I'd had that tool when I was in the English classroom.But you don't have to be a writing teacher to see the infinite possibilities in the use of forms to track student progress. The concept introduced in the post is universal.
If you need to keep track of a student's progress, check out this post to see how a simple Google Form can streamline your workflow and make filling out that progress monitoring paperwork a whole lot easier.
Coaches, need to keep track of workout stats? Let Google Forms do it for you.
Need to get everyone on the same page quickly? Use a URL shortener.
Sometimes you don't have the luxury of posting a link to a site on your webpage or in your Google Classroom, but you need everyone in your audience to navigate to that site quickly and easily. Enter the URL shortener. Basically, you copy the link address to the shortener to generate a URL that your audience can easily type into the browser on their device.A URL shortener will make something like this:
https://twowritingteachers.org/2017/08/14/ideas-for-getting-started-with-google-forms/
look like this:
http://tinyurl.com/y7lsyeeq
Here are a few shorteners to get you started. If you want to know more, see LifeWire's post to learn about the unique features of each.
goo.gl
bit.ly
ow.ly
tinyurl.com
