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Friday, February 15, 2008

Another revolution by Google - Online Forms

Ok, this is big. Google has reached a new milestone in personal productivity tools. It looks like sharing spreadsheets was just the beginning (see 3). This could revolutionize our use of forms and spreadsheets. This is another giant leap in covering the "last mile" in information gathering, giving more power to the teacher!

  1. Try it: complete this form http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pdPOKqGawXw8AfR-A93GTOQ
  2. View the results http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pdPOKqGawXw8AfR-A93GTOQ
  3. Go nuts and view results as a chart in realtime !
    http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Docs
  4. What is Google DOCS? A new paradigm. The video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA
all online, all no code. Potential uses:
  1. imagine capturing classroom answers and compiling them as they go.
  2. making a survey form and embedding the form http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/02/add-data-to-google-spreadsheets-using.html)
  3. more suggestions http://www.centernetworks.com/google-docs-spreadsheets-web-forms