World History
We normally start my classes with a five question quiz where my students can use their notes from their flipped video to answer the questions. It serves a few purposes. First I won't count the quiz grade if the notes aren't good enough as I want the kids to have a repository they can use later (which is easy with the search function in Google Drive). Secondly the questions are the main points for the day so it tells the kids what their exercise is going to be about.
But to the point. I very rarely use the LCD in my classroom other than for when I am giving our opening quiz. But the other day the my LCD lightbulb went kaput. So I had to improvise by taking the url from the Google Drive document into a Tinyurl which I also personalized. For example I am doing the fifth and sixth units in my for AP microeconomics called tinyurl.com/apmicro56. So I wrote the url on the board and didn't worry that we didn't have a LCD. It also is nice when kids want to redo a quiz, I just give them the url and we are all set.
In addition there is bitly.com that allows you to keep a repository or your shortenings as well as Google's shortening.
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World History
Personalized Urls
But to the point. I very rarely use the LCD in my classroom other than for when I am giving our opening quiz. But the other day the my LCD lightbulb went kaput. So I had to improvise by taking the url from the Google Drive document into a Tinyurl which I also personalized. For example I am doing the fifth and sixth units in my for AP microeconomics called tinyurl.com/apmicro56. So I wrote the url on the board and didn't worry that we didn't have a LCD. It also is nice when kids want to redo a quiz, I just give them the url and we are all set.
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