Tech of the Month - January 2016 - Google Forms

How might we check for understanding when sharing videos with students? Google forms now lets you embed videos from Youtube! So, if you’ve been busy creating screencasts or if you regularly ask students to watch youtube videos before coming to class, now you can easily create a few short questions to check for comprehension and feedback to go along with them. A good rule of thumb, borrowed from Just-in-Time Teaching, is to ask two conceptual questions from the video and one feedback question such as what do you want to know more about or what needs more clarification. How, you say? From Google drive, create a new form and click the video button as shown here and you’ll be prompted to enter the Youtube URL. Questions about the video can be added directly below the video. You can get a link and an embed code for sharing with others. Then a spreadsheet with responses will be automatically created in your Google drive.