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Saturday, January 4, 2020

The Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

Good morning from Maine where the snow that blanketed us earlier in the week is still here and will be here until April. I'm not complaining at all because at our house snow equals skiing. And that's what we're going to do after the sun comes up and we wrangle our toddlers into their snowsuits and boots.

I had classes on Thursday and Friday this week. If you did too, I hope it was a smooth start to 2020 in your classroom.

Last week I announced that I'm hosting an updated version of my Teaching History With Technology course starting on January 8th. Fifteen people have signed up. Register by midnight on Monday if you'd like to join us.

 These were the week's most popular posts:
1. Learn How to Use These 5 Time-saving Gmail Features in 2020
2. The Twelve Most Popular Posts on Free Tech for Teachers in 2019
3. Remove Image Backgrounds With PhotoScissors
4. Ten Blogging Activities for Kindergarten Through High School Classrooms
5. How to Make an Interactive Graphic With Canva
6. How to Create and Publish Multimedia Collages
7. FAQs About Teaching History With Technology 2020

I'll come to your school in 2020! 
2020 will be my tenth year of speaking at schools and conferences. Send me an email at richardbyrne (at) freetech4teachers.com to learn more about how we can work together.

Thank You for Your Support!
Other Places to Follow My Work
Besides FreeTech4Teachers.com and the daily email digest, there are other ways to keep up with what I'm publishing. 
  • Practical Ed Tech Newsletter - This comes out once per week (Sunday night/ Monday morning) and includes my tip of the week and a summary of the week's most popular posts from FreeTech4Teachers.com.
  • My YouTube Channel - More than 16,000 are subscribed to my YouTube channel for my regular series of tutorial videos including more than 300 Google tools tutorials. 
  • The Practical Ed Tech Podcast is where I answer questions from readers, share news and notes, and occasionally talk to interesting people in education. 
  • Facebook - The FreeTech4Teachers.com Facebook page has nearly 450,000 followers. 
  • Twitter - I've been Tweeting away for the last twelve years at twitter.com/rmbyrne
  • Instagram - this is mostly pictures of my kids, my dogs, my bikes, my skis, and fly fishing.
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How to Combine Multiple Google Forms Into One

Import questions is one of the many useful, yet often overlooked functions in Google Forms. The import questions function lets you draw questions from your existing forms to use in a new form. In the following video I demonstrate how you can use the import questions function to combine questions from multiple Google Forms to create one new one.


Applications for Education
One of the things that I typically do at the end of the semester is create practice quizzes for my students by compiling questions from quizzes that they have already taken. Usually, I focus on including the questions that were most frequently answered incorrectly earlier in the semester. Google Forms makes this easy to do. By using the import questions function in Google Forms I can quickly create a new form that is just a compilation of questions from prior forms. The determination of which questions to pick is done by looking at the summary data from the prior quizzes.
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