Google Docs allows you and your friends to
do real-time collaborative work over the internet, so long as they have a Gmail
account. I know this, albeit my team-mates and I doing the Professional Diploma
in Teaching at MICO College University
have yet to take Full advantage of Google
Drive.
It
may be because of pressure from such free alternatives as Google Docs that Microsoft has made Microsoft
Office 360, their Cloud-based version of Office into a Freemium product and split
into three (3) Separate Apps for Apple iOS users as reported in my blog article
entitled “Microsoft
Office 365 goes Freemium Model - One Becomes Three as Word, Excel and
PowerPoint with US$6.99 monthly to remove Restrictions”.
Off
campus, my life revolves around blogging for my personal Blog, My Thoughts on
Technology and Jamaica and working Freelance as a Writer for the Geezam blog.
Our
labour seems to be finally paying off, as we won the Award for Best Technology
Blog at the Caribbean Blog Awards that took place on Friday December 5th
2014 as stated in the article “Blog
Awards to recognise trendsetters in social media”, published Friday,
December 05, 2014, The Jamaica
Observer .
The
Geezam blog won in the Category “Best
Technology Blog” as per the Tweet on our Geezam
Twitter Feed.
Thank you @CaribBlogAwards
for awarding us best technology blog! #SMAJamaica
—
Geezam Tech Blog (@geezam) December
6, 2014
Recognition
is slow in coming, but it’s on the horizon….or may even already be here.
My Introduction to
Google Forms - Offer from American Company to Write Sponsored Articles
A
couple weeks prior, I received an email offer from a company abroad to write
sponsored article for a Marketing company. As usual, I’m skeptical of such
offers of money, especially as I’m a mere blog and not a big-time website.
Usually
such thing are hacking attempts, often employing emails loaded with links that
you click on in order to tag the location of your machine. Once you click on
them, they download malicious code unto your machine and access or open up
Logical ports to allow hackers to gain remote access to your computer.
Once
they’re achieved that, they usually use it to remotely control your computer,
often installing Keyloggers in order to steal passwords as I’d explained in my blog article entitled
“Professor
Marco Gercke warns of Scammers using Keyloggers for Spear Phishing - How to use
Keyloggers and how to Protect yourself from Scammer's American Hustle for Fast
Cash”.
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So
I took the usual precautions, scanning the websites and checking online in
forums to see if it was a scam. To my surprise it appeared legit, even sending
me what appeared to be a Google Forms to
fill out.
Google Forms? “What that” you ask? That’s
what this article is about….
Google Forms has improved
– How a little known service can add Survey capability to your blog
I
had never heard of Google Forms before,
muchless known that you could create Survey forms so easily without knowing any
scripting language. This is like the best kept secret online, as the only
sources I could find were on mainly from Google’s blogs and YouTube Channels!
Thus
Google Forms, allows you to make Surveys
and forms that persons online can fill out. Those
responses are automatically collected in a spreadsheet in Google Docs that you can peruse in real-time
as noted in the “Google
Drive post Google Forms”, Refreshed, published Wednesday, January 30, 2013,
Google Drive Blog.
Google Forms was a recent addition to
Google’s better known Suite of Productivity Web apps, Google Docs that allows for real-time
Collaboration online. Google Docs are a
part of Google Drive that serves up 15Gb
of online Cloud Storage once you have a Gmail Account as explained in my Geezam blog article entitled “Google Drive,
the Dropbox clone, now ups the ante to 15GB of Free Storage during Google I/O”.
Google Forms may be used for the purpose of
conducting a survey, Questionnaire or for Data Capture for your Website or
Blog. The video below does an excellent job of explaining the full hidden features
of Google Forms and how to embed it in
your Blog.
If
you’re the owner of a Google Chromebook, you’d have realizes that it can be
used to open older Microsoft Office documents as noted in my Geezam blog article entitled “Laptop
makers go Chromebooks as Google Chrome’s Office Extension makes it easy to View
and Edit Office Documents”.
Google Forms now has
Professional Themes – Easy Drag-and-Drop Questionnaires and Surveys
Good
to note that Google is continuing to improve the product.
In
September, 2014 Google added a “Change
Theme” Button on the Toolbar that allows you to select more professionally
preset Forms for Questionnaires and Surveys as reported in the article “Google
Forms Now Less Ugly Thanks To Addition Of Themes”, published Sep 2, 2014 by
Sarah Perez, TechCrunch. Check out their
Google for Work YouTube channel for Tip and Tricks on how to use these latest
updates in Google Forms.
So
excited about Google Forms?
I’m
already planning how I’m gonna use them to not only do surveys and
Questionnaires, but also for a Business Idea and even in my Courses next year
2015, the Year of the Sheep, when the New Semester of my Professional Diploma
in Teaching at MICO College University
resumes.
You’ll
be seeing more info on this on my new Wordpress Blog, Lindsworth Deer’s MICO Wars: The Teacher
Force Awakens.
Here’s
the link:
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