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Thing 28: Anything Goes Google


For this assignment, I wanted to explore what I could do with GoogleForms, and specifically an app attached to it, called "Flubaroo". 

 I've used Flubaroo superficially before, simply to get quickly-graded quizzes and provide feedback to individual students. Recently, I thought I saw another teacher using Flubaroo to summarize commonly missed questions on a quiz, and wanted to know more about how to do this in the app. After exploring a bit, I realized that this wasn't a feature of Flubaroo, it was a feature already on GoogleForms! 

 What I learned was that while Flubaroo would grade the quiz for me, GoogleForms can show a summary of responses to show me (and my students) which ones were commonly missed, or which ones they all got right. This provides whole-group feedback and helps me look in the mirror, too, to see what I could've done differently to teach a certain portion of the content better. 

 This seems like a basic step and only requires a click of one button, but simply exploring just a bit longer in Flubaroo/GoogleForms helped me realize that there was something available that I hadn't known how to access before. 

 I think I might use this feature to start class discussions and solicit feedback from students on why they did or did not get a certain question right. This will keep communication lines between teacher and student open so that I can know their thought process while they take the quiz, and they can think about what they are thinking (metacognition!) while taking the quiz. 

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