The elementary librarian at my school is setting up a Wiki for student generated book reviews. I am searching for the easiest submission method for elementary students to submit their review. Here are my leading two options:

1. Create an alphabetized table on this wiki page into which students add their book review.
Pro: easy and doesn't require lots of work by a teacher to transfer the reviews onto the wiki. Entries are alphabetized by book title.
Con: Requires students to carefully edit a single page with all of the other book reviews. Requires students to add new rows, hyperlink, etc., fairly advanced editing that they are not familiar with. No way to easily alphebetize by both book title and author last name.

2. Use Google Doc Form embedded in the wiki to receive student submissions.
Pro: Easy for students to do. Quick setup, very simple.
Con: Teacher must copy/paste student submission onto the wiki. Not real-time.

Here's what I need help with:
1.Is there a way to send the data collected via a Google form somewhere? In other words, can a form automatically populate a wiki page?
2. Any suggestions on how to create an automated index of book reviews by both book title and author using wikispaces and or Google Docs?

Tags: book, docs, elementary, forms, google, library, report, wiki

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We do this at our school #2 that is. We have a Google Docs spreadsheet that is populated by Google Form submissions. We have kids rate and comments on the books they have read, and it is made available on the school website for them to peruse when they are searching for a good book.

I've written more about it on www.teachingwithgoogledocs.blogspot.com

VB
How do you transfer the submitted form data onto your website so that students can see the reviews?
I would be curious to know the answer to that as well. I have begun using Google Docs in my wikispaces. The idea of automatically embedding the results in the wiki is appealing.

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