In classrooms where the collection of data can be the basis of authentic learning experiences, Google Spreadsheets offers a variety of useful survey and live data collection tools.
This Google Map collates the favourite suburbs of the anyone in Australia – please add your data to the form below and then click refresh. This sort of real world data could be used by a town planner to gather evidence of preference amongst a demographic. This document is published on the web. The document is viewable here. Please add your data to the form below then click refresh to see you data mashed into the spreadsheet above.
This is an example of surveying participants using a Google Docs Spreadsheet to generate a form that gathers and displays GeoData in a spreadsheet live.