 I'm just going to do a quick tutorial on how you can create a form to collect for example student emails or if you want to survey your kids on some information or something like that using Google Forms, which is a sub-program inside Google Docs. In order to do that, first of all, you need to create a Google Docs account. Google the word Google Space Docs and either log in or create an account. Then on the main page on the top left it'll say create new and choose create new spreadsheet. You could also choose create new form, but I find it easier to create a form from within a spreadsheet because I can see a little bit more of what's going on. I've already done that. I've gone create new spreadsheet. It took me to this page here and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to toggle click on create a form. Form create a form right there. It's going to take me to a separate little window. This is a form. Anytime you open a form, it automatically includes two sample questions. Sometimes those are annoying. Sometimes they're fine. If I want to edit a question, I click on the pencil. If I want to duplicate a question, I click that. If I want to delete a question, I click on that there. I'll give the form a title. This would be emails or student emails and I would write instructions. Please carefully enter your email address. Again, you could use this if you want to do a survey about a novel or if you're just trying to collect some data to start a discussion. The sky's the limit. Google Form is a very, very powerful tool and it's free. Where it says question title. This is going to be the title of the question. I will type for example, please enter your, and I'll probably capitalize it so it stands out first name. Help text, I would go IE Roberto. Question type, you can choose various question types. Text gives them one line to enter text. Paragraph allows them to enter a paragraph. The title choice allows you to supply them with answers that they pick from, check boxes and choose from list as well. Scale is very nice if you want to have a sliding scale from say one to five or one to ten and you can have them rank things. What did you think of the plot of this novel? Give it an eight. What did you think of the character development of this novel? Or I even did a year end survey with my students to find out how they liked some of the teaching things that I had done and I got some really good data that way. But I'll leave this as text for now. And I'll make this a required question so they have to answer it before they hit submit. Sample question number two, I want to edit that one, remember Google Forms automatically gives you two samples, two questions as part of it. So sample question number two, please enter your last name, IE Longo, my apologies to Roberto Longo for using his first and last name without the permission but I'm sure you'd be okay with it. I hope I'll make this a required question as well. That gives me the first name, gives me the last name, now I need their email address so I'm going to go add item. Here are the various questions, I'll choose text and that'll give me a new text question or if I wanted to because I want another text question I can just hit duplicate and that gives me a brand new question. Now duplicate of the Longo question, I don't want that, I want it to be please carefully enter your email address IE who I am at myservice.com, sure. Make this a required question, oh you know what I'd like parent email addresses as well so I'm going to go duplicate. Please carefully enter your parents email address who they are at theirservice.com. Now some of the kids won't know their parents email address so I won't make this a required question which means they can hit submit without having to fill in that form although I did make it a required question this year and the kids just figured out to type in don't know or none it's up to you. Why is this so nice? Well if I click on more actions right now, oh sorry if I can view the published form here if I click on this blue link at the bottom this is what the kids will see, oh it's going to save it for me automatically and this is the link that I'm going to send to the kids. Now the students when they receive this link type something in enter your first name Elvis don't want to fill this form out sorry that's my computer asking me something enter your last name Presley enter your email Graceland at Memphis.com enter your parents email I'm going to leave that one blank and if I hit submit that has just been added to a spreadsheet where does that spreadsheet appear well now if I click right here you'll notice I have two windows open this window down here is the form that I've been editing as soon as I created that form and started creating questions Google modified my spreadsheet it put the title of each question as the title of each spreadsheet and you can see when I hit submit it adds a time stamp there's the information that I type there's the information that I type there's the information that I type so as your students fill in the information your spreadsheet will just slowly fill up fill up fill up fill up and at the end once you've got all the information you can go file and download it as an Excel spreadsheet or whatever if you want to do something with it so it's a great way to collect students information the problem is students email information the tricky part is how the heck do I give them this spreadsheet well one way to email out this form would be to email this form you don't know the students email addresses that doesn't do you very good very much good once you have their email addresses though this is a great way to solicit to solicit feedback for your classroom and the kids are really good about filling these out they kind of like the fact that their teacher is asking them to fill out an online form and once you have the data it's an you know it's an amusable data you can modify it put in a spreadsheet graph it analyze it or whatever more by the way you can also choose a theme so I might go with oh heck I'll choose a time theme and hit apply looks like that I can also choose if you have a web page and you click on here this will give you the embed code so that you can paste it into your web page edit confirmation let's me change what they see at the end so instead of thanks your responses will appear in my spreadsheet I might say thanks I appreciate the information you gave me and I'm looking forward to this year period I don't let the kids everyone see the response summary because I'm worried that kids might see confidential data from each other so we're just going to hit save back to my problem my problem is until I have their email addresses it's tough for me to email out of form but at the very bottom this blue link this long thing if you carefully highlight it with your mouse and then either right-click or control seat copy that's the link that you can now add into your own blog or web page so you have to have your own web page either through the school or your own blog and if you don't have that that you'll have to talk to someone who's techie at your school they can help you set up a web page but then on that web page you would say click here to enter your email addresses highlight the click here to enter your email addresses and attach this blue link to that section of the web page hopefully that makes sense if you're not sure you can email me for more information but that's how you can make a Google form to collect students information email information if you want to collect data say free if you're in a math class and you're doing either on statistics you could collect for example their heights their shoe sizes what type of music they listen to you can make that a multiple choice one you could look at data like that how long they spend online you give them a sliding scale for all sorts of stuff and then you'd have data that the students could use from their own class and interpret that in the statistics section in social studies if you're looking at how so societies break down you could do mock elections this way before the election and see how your class would have voted and you can do it anonymously you don't have to have them fill in their own name or you can do it and have them attach the name just if you feel that'll give you more honest results lots of neat stuff you can do here so that's how you make a Google form