Saturday, June 15, 2013

I am Flubaroo and You Can Too

It's TICL time again. Being an educator words like that could get me into some serious trouble. But this is a GOOD TICL. It is the annual Northwest Iowa and Prairie Lakes AEA's summer technology conference.  TICL stands for Technology Integration and Instruction for the Twenty First Century Learner. This year I am presenting two different sessions. That makes me the Iowa equivalent of the doublemint twins. Except I am not a twin and probably should never be on a television commercial. My two sessions are both on products related to Google Apps for Education.  This seems pretty fitting since I (warning ... shameless self promotion here) just qualified as a Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer.

Session number one is on Flubaroo, a script that allows you to create Google Forms and make self grading quizzes and tests out of them. Here is the link to my demonstration quiz LINK.
I have also created a Google Doc with instructions on how to use Flubaroo here.

You can also find the form embedded at the bottom of this post

The second session is how to use the GAFE control panel and some best practices.  I had planned on showing Flash Panel because when I submitted the session, it was free to education. This is no longer the case, and while I feel it is worth the cost of admission, I hate showing for pay tools to people that are not already thinking about them.  It feels to much like a sales pitch and that is not how I roll.

The rest of my summer is jam packed with such fun things as fork lifting 90% of my network switches and getting our new student information system up and going. The job of a tech director is never done.