Hi this is Russell Stannard from Teachertrainingvideos.com today I'm going
to focus on google forms I'm going to show you some advanced ideas I'm going to show you how to
combine a couple of technologies together I'm going to focus on ideas around language teaching
though any of these ideas could be applied to any subject area. I'll also organize a little
menu system so you can jump into the different things if you look down in the description.
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Let's get started. Okay for the first idea I'm going to show you how you can add audio into your
google forms and this way you can create listening comprehensive type exercises. So what I'm going to
do is I'm going to click over here obviously go to my google drive and then I'm going to click
on New and I'm going to go to google forms. I'm just going to create a really simple google form
and I'll give it a title we're going to call this Listening Activity and if I click here it grabs
the title here and uses it as the name of the actual file as well. Now I'm going to set this as
a quiz in other words that the students can answer the questions and find out immediately if they got
the questions wrong or right so if I click on the settings here, come to quizzes and obviously
I need to make this a quiz.. I'm going to click on Save I won't change anything else and now I'm
just going to write a quick description so you can see here that I've put a description listen
to the audio file and then answer the questions below I'll be adding my questions here the next
thing we need to do is to create the audio file. Let's look at the quickest way of doing that
Vocaroo.com is probably one of the easiest ways to create an audio file I'm gonna do a super
simple example I'm just gonna give a little bit of information about myself as in my day
record myself talking about it and then make some questions obviously you could record yourself
speaking about anything and of course it could be in any language. So I'm gonna click on this button
here, uh yeah I normally get up around half of six in the morning and I always start my day with a
cup of coffee and some yoga and I also do a little bit of training and then normally after about an
hour I go for a run I just do a short run I come home and then I have breakfast and start work
about nine o'clock. So I've done my recording, let's just play it back and check it's okay
uh yeah I normally get up around half of six in the morning that's perfect so I'm going to click
on Save and Share and what I'm going to do is I've got various options here but I'm going to just
copy that link now I can come back to my google form and add that into my google form
So all I need to do is just to come back here and in the description I'm just going to
create a bit of space I'm going to paste in the link as simple as that now if we actually look
at that if we click on Preview you'll notice that that is actually active now all I need to do is
add a few questions now I'm just going to add two or three questions two will do just to demonstrate
how we create questions underneath the audio file. So let's just add a quick question just
as example so I'm going to ask the question what time does Russell get up? and then all
I'm going to do is just give a couple of options so we'll say for example 6:30 or 7.
So we need to do now is to obviously put in the answer key so we click here and we need to tell
google forms what the correct answer is so it's 6:30 is the time I normally get up and then we're
going to give a certain number of points and click on done and of course now we could add
another question. So I'll just do one more so I'm going to click here so let me just quickly
write in the second question so I've added in two options remember I need to choose the answer key
I can't even give I'm going to give a mark just I'm trying to rush this a little bit really so
I'm just going to kind of um actually I'm going to need to go back anyway and edit that because I've
made a mistake but the correct answer is coffee and one thing you might want to add some feedback
and I just want to make that point you kind of obviously correct to answer you can just say no
incorrect yeah it is coffee so you put in the correct answer which is a good idea and obviously
if they get the answer correct then just say Well done and just click on Save now just one
point here. I've actually made a mistake here it's always very easy just to go back and edit anything
when you're working with um so if I just click on Done a minute I just want to come back and edit
that question okay because it should be what does Russell drink? if I go back to the first one as
well just very quickly in the answer key I should really add in the feedback incorrect and say
the answer is 6.30 and then if you get the answer correct we'll just say well done okay so we've
done now two activities now it works really really well the only thing is I'm just going to
show you this just one thing to point out to your students when you preview the activity when you
click on this link it will open another window so the students will have to click you can see
it's opened another one yeah I normally get let me just pause that then I can listen to the audio and
then come back to the question so remember it's gonna open another tag or tab sorry so that you
need to keep that in mind so just a really simple thing students can listen to the audio and then
come back put their two answers in hopefully they get them right they submit their answers
and they should immediately get a score and see that they got both answers correct so that's the
first idea that we can use. Now I'm going to show you something even a little bit more complicated
In this second example we're going to make a video and then add the video to the google
form and then get the students to watch the video and then answer the questions below
and all I need to do is use this website here called screencast-o-matic it allows you to use
the video recorder for free so I click on record for free and then I click on launch free recorder
and it's going to open up a little recorder that I can use to record myself speaking over an
image or a PowerPoint slide or even a graph or a table or anything you want to talk about so you
can make a video very quickly and then upload that video onto YouTube and share it with your students
so there it is the recorder has opened up and all I need to do now is to minimize
the browser and I've got a picture here which is very kind of similar to my house so we're going to
use this picture which I've got from the internet and it's a creative commons image so I'm allowed
to use this image so I'm just going to make the recorder a bit smaller and I'm going to just do
a simple description of my house as a recording so to record all I need to do is click on this
button here make sure the audio is connected make sure the microphone is connected click here
This is quite similar to my house my house is a semi detached house that is
it's just connected on one side and it's fairly new house It's probably only about 20 years old
and it's got three bedrooms and it's got a fairly big front room and dining room which
are connected together there's a little garden at the front and a slightly bigger garden at the back
now in the garden there's also a shed and there are some tables and chairs on the very rare
days that the weather is nice in England I'm going to stop my recording click on Done,
now incredibly if I click here save that video is actually ready already and I can play it back
this is quite similar to my house my house is a semi-detached house that is it's just connect
okay the video is working perfectly now we've got a few options in terms of the way that we want to
save this video and for this example I'm going to use YouTube. Now I've already connected
my YouTube account to the screencast-o-matic video recorder and all I needed to do to do
that was to add in my Gmail account so I'm going to click here on upload to YouTube so
just to make it clear how you connect your Gmail account all I did is if I click here on account
and you can see that I've actually got a couple of accounts connected and if I click on add account
and then I click on launch browser all you'll notice is that I simply add one of my accounts uh
my Gmail accounts onto screencast-o-matic and you normally just have to put in your Gmail account
plus your password and then the two will be connected all the time and
every time you make a video you will be able to immediately upload that video onto YouTube
and I'm just going to click on the title and I'm going to call this my house description let's put
description now once we've added the description the only other thing that we need to think about
is the privacy level of the video and the one you want is unlisted that means you can add
the video into the google form but actually nobody could search for that YouTube video on YouTube
don't set it as private it won't work don't set it as public everyone can find the video so make
it sure it's unlisted then I'm going to click on Publish and that video is now going to be uploaded
onto my YouTube account so remember you will need to add your Gmail account to Screencastomatic.com
Okay, it's very very easy to do and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy the link okay and
click on Done if we come back to the google form so here I am on my google form and I'm going to
call this one YouTube example and I'm just going to simply write a very quick description here
so I've written in the description remember if you click on here it will use the title as the
name of the file so it will be easy to find it again afterwards now what I'm going to do this
time though is I'm going to click on Add video and I'm going to just paste in the link to that video
and if I do a search because I have got the actual link here I can add that video okay
so now we've got a video on the screen that the students have to listen to and of course
we can add the questions after now a couple of tips okay is I always put here watch this video
okay we've already put the instructions here watch the video and answer the questions below
and another little thing you can do is click here and centre a line I'll make the video a little bit
bigger by clicking on it and just dragging out the area to make it nice and nice and big now we can
add the questions. Now I won't add any questions for this example but if we now go to preview
you can see that the students have got a video to watch and let's just play it for a few seconds
this is quite similar to my house. My house is eight and of course then the students would
answer the questions below that's a great way of making your own content and being able to
get your students to access that content and answer the questions in google forms now that
same technology you could even switch it and get the students to make a video and then create their
own google forms questions that would also be possible because the technology is completely free
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