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Google Forms is a fantastic and versatile software for quick data collection. It is relatively easy to use, free, and collaborative. What's not to love? Like an onion, a parfait, or young-adult vampire literature, Forms has a lot of layers. The more you peel, spoon, or leaf through, the better experience you'll have. Plus, Forms usually won't make you cry. That's right, I'm looking at you, onion. Here are six tips for getting the most out of Forms.  Use FormRecycler to Reuse Items Remember the Google Form survey you wrote last month? It sure had some great questions! If only there were a way to reuse some of them on your new survey without retyping or copying and pasting line-by-line. Enter the Add-on 'FormRecycler'. This nifty add-on lets you import items from any of your previous Google Forms with no typing required! 1. Go to forms.google.com  and create a new form. 2. Click the three-dot menu in the top right corner and se...

How many slideshows Or documents Have you seen With bullet points That look like this? What if we could jazz it up? Let's say...turn those bullet points into a rainbow or a unicorn, wouldn't that be more fun? Yes. It. Would. Here's how:  1. Open your slideshow and click a slide that has a list marked with bullet points. 2. Right-click one of the bullet points. 3. Select 'More bullets...' 4. Search for something fun, like 'unicorn'. 5. Click the icon that appears (like the unicorn above) and your bullet points will be replaced with cute little unicorns! 6. Alternatively, after your right-click and select 'More bullets...', you can draw what you're looking for in the 'Draw a symbol here' box and Google's draw recognition software will find matches for you. 7. TA-DA!!!

The time of day/week/month that communication is sent matters. Don't believe me? Just ask Juliet Capulet who conspired with Friar Lawrence to fake her death with the assumption that Friar John would deliver a letter, explaining the whole thing, to Romeo Montague who was kicking it up in Mantua. Unfortunately for our young heroes, Friar John got himself locked up in quarantine, the letter never made it and all was lost. Bummer. If you ask me, Juliet should have used GMail to write an email with a scheduled send to ensure her beloved boo would get the message. Or, she could have just texted him, but you know  Lady Capulet was monitoring those. Here's how she should have done it: 1. Go to gmail.com to open your email. 2. Click the '+ Compose' button near the top left corner. 3. Type the email address of the person or persons to whom you'd like to receive the message, type a subject line, and your message. 4. Instead of clicking 'Send', ...

In the third grade, I was involved in an uncomfortable relationship with my teacher's chalkboard. Speaking without raising a hand, accidentally tearing a blue ditto worksheet, or any number of other relatively minor infractions led to her drawing a small circle on the board. The dissident student was called to the front of the class and instructed to put her/his nose in the center. If the incident was deemed especially heinous, the student would be called to the board before the circle was drawn so the teacher could sketch it just high enough that the perpetrator would be forced to stand tip-toed to serve out the sentence. To this day, I'm not a fan of the smell or the feeling of chalk. Starting my teaching career, chalkboards made way for whiteboards and such punitive procedures were, thankfully, deemed barbaric. Nonetheless, whiteboard marker tips were notorious for getting pushed in and, if erased by human hands, the boards started looking nasty alarmingly quickly. ...