I never really utilized Google Forms in my practice until we transitioned to distance learning in April, although I do have decent experience with it from my credential program and various professional development courses.
During distance learning, Silverado students were given a list of bodyweight workout YouTube videos, choosing one workout to complete Monday-Thursday; at the end of the week, they completed the SMS PE Survey in which they checked off the box(es) for the workout(s) they did each day. The survey ends with these three short answer questions: What other physical activities (if any) have you done this past week? Which is your favorite workout? Any other comments, questions, or concerns? This Google Form essentially served as an assessment tool for me, while holding students accountable and giving them an opportunity for reflection and satisfaction. But what I was pleasantly surprised by was how amazing of a tool it is for collecting data. I was pretty blown away by the response summary pie charts, bar graphs, lists, and conversion to Spreadsheet. While reading up on Forms and its add-ons this week, I was able to envision a few more potential uses for Forms and my teaching. In the past, I’ve done pen and paper sign-ups for intramural sports, activity periods, tournaments, and other various activities/events at Silverado. I plan to transition to having students sign up for things like this with Google Forms, as well as for checking in and out equipment. Choice Eliminator and CheckitOut seem like useful add-ons for these purposes. Choice Eliminator makes it so choices on the form are removed after someone chooses them, and CheckitOut can move choices from “Checked in” to “Checked out” and back when equipment is checked out… “Create a ‘Name’ short-answer question and you can see the paper trail of who checked equipment in and out and at what time in the spreadsheet of results.” Student activity logs can be another great use of google forms in PE: “Create a form with the student’s name and all the information he/she needs to submit. Each time he/she submits, it’s logged into a spreadsheet where students can review that data and submit it to you” (Ditch That Textbook). Finally, I can ultimately see myself using forms as a data collection tool for my action research/capstone project. I still have a way to go in figuring out exactly what my action research will look like, but at this time I think my end users are other PE teachers and coaches, and I’ll want to do research around them. I think I can use Forms to create a survey which will ultimately be shared with my end users and gauges:
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