Instead of having students raise their hand, giving the impression of wanting a fast response rather than a thoughtful response, allow ALL students to thoughfully participate. 

Use the same Google Form™ repeatedly to have students share their thoughts about the question posed. Use the Puzzle Piece Add-on menu to select "Popscicle Sticks Form by AliceKeeler" to randomly choose one of the submitted responses. 

This has the same effect of randomly calling on students to share their answer. However, randomly calling on students is anxiety producing and can cause fight or flight panic for some students. Thus, publicly not able to provide their most thoughtful response. First, give all students time to think and respond to the question. Then use the Add-on to randomly call on a student to expand on their thoughtful response. 

This also allows ALL students to participate rather than the one or two who raised their hand. 

After randomly selecting a student response from the responses, use the Add-on menu to remove the responses from the Form™. This allows you to reuse the same Form over and over as a method for having students participate when a question is asked in class. 

Suggestion to connect a Google Sheets™ spreadsheet on the responses tab to capture the student participation. This preserves everyones participation. 

This Add-on was created by Alice Keeler. Teacher, Google Certified Innovator, Google Developer Expert, Mom of 5, and EdTech blogger at alicekeeler.com. This Add-on collects NO user data. NO PII. Is FERPA and COPPA compliant. Check out more of her Add-ons at http://alicekeeler.com/codedbyalice