Google Docs and Flubaroo

     The further in the semester that I get, the more I am learning about technology and all of the different resources out there that are available to the public for FREE. Over the last two weeks I worked with Google Docs and Flubaroo.
     Teachers can use Google Docs to create grade books that can be permanently online, which I really enjoyed because I love to be as "green" as possible. There are many different functions in Google Docs that do a lot of the work for you, such as calculating the maximum number of points, minimum number of points and even a function that calculates the grade that the student got on the assignment. But most importantly it is user friendly for those of us that are not technologically gifted.
     This week in my class we learned how to make an online quiz that we can easily apply to our classrooms. In order to do this, we again used a Google Doc application called a "form". this allows the individual to choose a theme for the quiz as well as write each question that they would like to include. This application even has different formats for the questions such as multiple choice and text box. After creating the quiz you can make an answer key as well as e-mail the quiz out to your students, and as soon as they take the quiz their answers will appear in a Google Document that looks like Microsoft Excel. If that isn't amazing enough their is an application that can be installed to Google Docs called Flubaroo that will automatically grade the quizzes as the students submit them online! All-in-all I think that these two programs are incredibly useful and everyone should take advantage of them.