Thing # 7

What fun! All of these were fun; I made my igoogle page - but, I really liked the Google Scholor and the Google Doc. I've been looking for info on professional learning communities; Google Scholor let me do that search...and narrow down the research by year! I really liked that feature because it allowed my to look only at information that was really current. If that wasn't fun enough, when I got to Google Doc I took the tour and got hooked! Last year I had the idea of polling students by grade level to see which books they were most interested in. But, I couldn't find a way to do that other than pencil and paper (and then I'd have to calculate it by hand!). So, I let the idea float away. When I wanted anonymous feedback from teachers, I'd leave the ol' school survey in the mailboxes. Tonight I learned that I can use a spreadsheet from Google Doc, and create a form (from within the spreadsheet) with questions. Google Doc will calculate it all as responses come in. I even created a survey and sent it to myself to test it out. It worked! The other cool thing is that once the survey is answered, Google Doc will let the respondent see a summary of the survey. And, I've got to be honest.....I went back and played some more with the mashups! I'm looking forward to using both Google Scholor and Google Doc!