hi everybody welcome back my name is mr campbell from mr campbellrocks.com today's
video i am going to show you how to use google forms to respond to um passages of text there's
a couple different ways to do this this is actually a specific question from a follower
based on where we're at my hope is that you have a just a basic understanding of google
forms and how google forms works how to create a google form and choose what kind of questions
you want and make those questions required or not but we're going to talk about how to
get that text in there both either as text or as an image and we're going to be using
fahrenheit 451 one of if not my favorite novel of all time so um for those of you
that are new to google forms you can go to docs.google.forms or you can go to forms
dot new and it will create a new form for you a form is a way basically to create a quiz or a
test or gather information from a group of people that you share this with my hope again is that you
have that general understanding of that process so we want to give our form a name and a title um
or a title and a name and a description below here and i am actually in the edit stage of this so i
can choose what kind of question i want i have all of these options here excuse me and so what we're
actually going to do is we're going to insert some text both as an image and a regular text to answer
the following four questions so you can see what i've done here is i've basically just
typed out read the following passage to answer questions one through four
and when we're hovering here we'll see this image right here which means i can add an image so the
first way that we can do this is if i come over here and i take a screenshot if you're on a pc
you can just use the screenshot tool if you're on a mac it's command shift four and we're just
gonna grab um this part right here we just wanna focus on this introductory paragraph
when montag is at his first burn so this will automatically go to my desktop or it should
if i did it right which maybe it didn't so i'm going to do another one and so we want
this here this is the text when we come back over to our google form to insert this image we
can upload this so we have a lot of options on where to grab this image we can upload it from
our computer we can take something with our camera we can do it by a url if we have a url of an image
we can grab stuff from our photos we can grab a document from google drive we can also search
google image search well i just took this picture so i want to upload it
and it's gonna be right here on my desktop so i grab that it's going to pull that image in here
and you'll see now that i have an image of the text so the kids can't highlight this or mark
this up or anything like that it's an image of the text then what i could go do after this is i
could have my first four questions right i want to make this required maybe the first question is um
i don't even want to have i don't want to take time to think of the questions because i want
to get through the process of this so this is going to be a multiple choice question right is
um i don't know whatever when we copy this it's going to come down here and this is now question
two so this could be a short paragraph or a short answer maybe maybe it's just we want to know what
kids are thinking about this so we do shorter answer and we could ask them a question like what
do you think the author is means by the number 451 why is the number 451 significant we obviously
know it's in the title of the book and it's in our first paragraph why is 451 so important
again we're going to copy this we're going to duplicate this now we can go down and do a
paragraph question and maybe what we want to have the kids focus on is the craft of writing and so
the i love ray bradbury but that's a whole nother video for another day
there's a lot of imagery here right we have the fireflies which are basically comparing these
burning embers of books and this house and this home that they're there that's on fire comparing
it to fireflies we also have this imagery of a book looking like a pigeoned a flapping pigeon
um being burned right as the as the pages are turning brown into charcoal and and the book
looks like a pigeon so we could ask the students how they feel about what's happening right the
fourth question could have to do with a specific word maybe we wanted to highlight right here
solid right that's a new word for most eighth or ninth or tenth graders so we could have them based
on using textual evidence what do they think stalin means and we could either have that be
a multiple choice um or a drop down or a short answer or a paragraph if they wanted to do that
so these are four generic questions and you notice because i've actually copied the um question the
text shows up in every question so that's one way to get text um into a google form the other way
is to actually so i'm going to remove these now the other way is to actually i'll just do it below
we're going to click on the plus side to add a new question
use the following text to answer questions um five through seven
and let's do check boxes it's fine
here what we can do is we can actually grab the text straight oh here we go
so we're going to delete all of this and then we're just going to paste the
text in here right and we we would obviously it's a pdf so some of the
spacing isn't great um there's a google docs online that have this text but you
can anyway you can see what i'm doing you can pull the text in here and
when you have this text you can put it in quotes like this so that's the other way that you can
put in text inside of a google form then you would do very similar like what we did above
you could copy this question and all of that text copies right here so that the students don't have
to go all the way up and again this is i mean if you have students that are the first time they're
reading this or whatever this is just a great thing to do for students so they have the text on
each question instead of scrolling up and down or going over to the text there's a couple different
options you could have a pdf that they open in one window and answer the questions in another
window i don't love that because i feel like some students don't do well because of the process not
because of what they actually know the best way to do this is to just grab a picture of the text
and put it in if you have an extremely long short story or you're reading like an entire short story
then you're going to have to do it another way where they're reading the pdf and then coming
over to the form but if you're just uh using a couple pages you could set the images in here
again if you're here it's most likely because you're an educator
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