World History
There are a bunch of ways to shorten a long url which you will want to consider using. If you use Google Drive, you have some very long urls that you may want to send to your students using something like Remind101 (for homework) or if you want to write it on the board so students can get to a webpage quickly. Here are some ways to do it:
- Bitly Tutorial For Weblinks
I did a post a month ago on Bit.ly which allows you to shorten a url (much as Tinyurl and goo.ly allow you to do). The advantage of this shortener is that you can tailor (as you can with Tinyurl) your link to something your students can remember...
- Remind101 Improves Its Site
Our county has an in-service in August for which I have organized ten groups to do presentations. If you come to this site in August I will be putting all of those in-services and their "handouts" on this blog. One of the sites we will discuss...
- How To Use Qr Codes In The Classroom
My teacher students were rather eager to learn about how to use QR codes in the classroom for homework or other uses. So after class I created the video above to show how to use it. I explain all the steps from creating a webpage for your...
- Qr Codes For Homework
So I am starting a little experiment with QR codes. While I had seen them before I was introduced to them in a big way this summer when I was working on apps for teachers and students. So now my students see the code below when they log into Blackboard....
- Tiny Url
From time to time I need to shorten my url. For example if I am sending out a message using Remind101 to my students, then my Google Docs url is too short so I get a truncated one. For example, here is the entire url for a webquest my...
World History
Three Ways to Shorten Your Urls
- Google's shortener is http://goo.gl/ which not only shortens it, but also allows you to track click on it
- Tinyurl is the original shortener. It will allow you to not only shorten a url, but you can also write customized ones (as long as no one else has done so). This is a good idea if you want your students to go to a page continuously (think homework).
- Bitly is one where you can shorten, customize and, if you create your own account, you can keep a list of your shortened and customized urls. So for example here bit.ly/hallaapcompis the one for my AP Comparative students for homework.
- Bitly Tutorial For Weblinks
I did a post a month ago on Bit.ly which allows you to shorten a url (much as Tinyurl and goo.ly allow you to do). The advantage of this shortener is that you can tailor (as you can with Tinyurl) your link to something your students can remember...
- Remind101 Improves Its Site
Our county has an in-service in August for which I have organized ten groups to do presentations. If you come to this site in August I will be putting all of those in-services and their "handouts" on this blog. One of the sites we will discuss...
- How To Use Qr Codes In The Classroom
My teacher students were rather eager to learn about how to use QR codes in the classroom for homework or other uses. So after class I created the video above to show how to use it. I explain all the steps from creating a webpage for your...
- Qr Codes For Homework
So I am starting a little experiment with QR codes. While I had seen them before I was introduced to them in a big way this summer when I was working on apps for teachers and students. So now my students see the code below when they log into Blackboard....
- Tiny Url
From time to time I need to shorten my url. For example if I am sending out a message using Remind101 to my students, then my Google Docs url is too short so I get a truncated one. For example, here is the entire url for a webquest my...