A Trip to Awesometown with Google Forms and a Classroom Twitter Feed

If you use Google Forms and you think Twitter could be a useful learning tool for you, keep reading. John Calvert came up with a work around that allows teachers to moderate Google Form submissions and have them auto post to a classroom Twitter feed.

This workaround is immediately useful for me because:

1. The student tweets demonstrate avenues for more exploration and discussion.
2. Feedback is meaningful, almost immediate and helpful to my students.
3. I can manage the feed by approving worthy student responses.
4. The form challenges my students be ultra focussed with their feedback.
5. Introduces Twitter to students who would not otherwise be using it. 
6. Students don't need a Twitter account.
7. Fun and accessible to anyone who can submit a Google Form! 

Other applications:

1. Intra school, department feeds.
2. PD feed.
3. Cross curricular, cross team feeds.
4. ?

What you need:

1. Google Form
2. Add on: Form Mule
3. Gmail account (used only for this integration)
4. Twitter account 
5. IFTTT recipe

The New Goobric, Tiny Tips

I am redefining my workflow with the Goobric and Doctopus integration. This integration allows me to grade assignments electronically and more efficiently. For me, a clean solution to provide timely and useful student feedback in a paperless environment had been missing until Goobric and Doctopus got together!

The new Goobric Web app is a tool you need if you are interested in or are already grading electronically. Here's a summary of the screen cast above.

1. Expand or collapse the Goobric view and comment box.
2. Get rid of your tool bar in Google Docs by going full screen to give you more space in your doc.
3. Click on the 'Doctopus Sheet' to return to all of your ingested documents without Goobric closing.
4. Audio comments render in the student doc, below the rubric.
5. An audio folder is created in your Google Drive for those audio comments.