Today I met with the third, fourth, and fifth grade teams during their monthly technology PLT along with the media specialist. I was able to share with them how to use Formenate to easily move assessments already created in Word and Google Doc into Google Forms. During this PLT, we also reminded them of how to unpin YouTube from the shelf so that it is not as tempting for students to use for entertainment. Teachers had previously been introduced to ViewPure, but now with teachers wanting to share videos for students to view within Google Classroom, we reminded them of their use. I shared a tutorial previously completed with them and added it to our shared Google 'How To' folder and shared network drive. The interest in using Google Forms is higher in these three groups than the previous two that I met with. Many of these teachers have already begun to use Forms and many appeared excited to have a simpler way to move from Word to Forms. A couple of those nearing retirement expressed that this would actually be creating more work for them. This is true for this year, but if these same assessments are going to be utilized in upcoming years, the work now will greatly lessen the load in the future. A few of them even began to discuss dividing up the load of creating the Forms and sharing them among those interested in them on the grade level. At the conclusion of these PLT meetings, I felt as though I had introduced them to a tool that they would find useful and would use on a regular basis - at least this first year using Google Classroom. As icing on the cake, later in the day I had a request from a fourth grade teacher to have an individual session with her after school in order to help her troubleshoot some issues she was having creating an assessment using Formenate. We found that part of her assessment was not formatted correctly. She was able to use the Formatting tutorial in order to make the needed changes so that the Word document transferred correctly.
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