World History
Ted Ed Examples
If you saw Ken's post the other day, then you know that Ted Talks now has a way for you to flip any You Tube video and ask questions about the video after its viewed. I tried it with a John Green crash course video about the Dark Ages and then made up a series of about six multiple choice questions for students to answer after viewing the video. The site (which is in beta form) does not allow you to make clickable multiple choice questions yet. But they do exist for some featured videos. For regular users like you and me, we're stuck with either open ended questions or multiple choice that is not clickable. Here is my effort with the John Green video. And here is another effort--Karen Armstrong talking about the roots of religion during the Axial Age. I used open-ended questions for this video.
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Add Questions For Students To Youtube Videos
You can add questions to any You Tube video if you sign up for the Beta test Google just started. You can sign up by clicking here. You can add questions (only multiple choice for now) anywhere in the video. You just scan through the video to the...
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Easily Make Mc Tests In Google Forms
We have a test maker for which we have to cut and paste each part of multiple choice questions into the "a" section and the "b" one, etc. Well here is a much faster way for you to make convert your multiple choice questions to Google Form tests...
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Ap Summer Institutes
The best summer institute I have ever attended starts on June 10th in Salt Lake City where I will be grading AP US Government exams, but I have gone to a number of great summer institutes (World, US, Comparative and US Government) over the years and always...
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Polleverywhere Adds Picture Components To Questions
Image Support for Multiple Choice Options from Poll Everwhere on Vimeo. I just taught my tech integration class how to use PollEverywhere this past week and along comes their newest innovation which is to add pictures to the questions. Frank (Panterfan)...
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Instant Reponse
Two years ago fellow blogger Frank Franz turned me onto Polleverywhere.com where students can answer multiple choice questions using their phones. For those who do are not allowed to have their students text, they can use gopollgo.com. The...
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