Google Apps
Google Docs Surveys Make Life Easier
Friday, July 2nd, 2010The Google Docs utility called Form creates a survey that gathers data into a spreadsheet. Such a simple thing, but it can be very powerful, as four administrative units of Keene State have found.
Watch these short videos to hear their stories.
Keene State Music department uses the Google Docs form to collect all the [...]
Embed a Picassa Slide Show in BlackBoard or Your Blog
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Complete directions here: http://bit.ly/aaUfTZ
Creating a survey using Google Forms
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010The steps to creating a survey using Google docs forms are well documented already. Therefore, I’ll just point you to some good step-by-step directions and then fill in with how to distribute the survey, view the responses and close the survey.
About.com has a good step-by-step procedure for creating the questions here.
After you have created the [...]
Embed a News Feed in Your BlackBoard Course
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010If your course is one in which you would like students to keep an eye on the news, you can embed a newsfeed from Google News in the Announcements of your BlackBoard course.
Directions
Go to the google News Widget page http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/newsshow/wizard.html
To put it in Blackboard:
Open your course and go to the Control Panel.
Click Announcements or another [...]
Surveys the Easy Way
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010You’ve probably noticed the new way that folks are taking reservations for events. It’s a clickable link to a form in an email.
What is that? And how hard is it to use?
Answers: Google Forms and very easy.
Forms is an option within Google Documents that allows you to send out a survey and collect data easily. [...]
