Labor Day Post

Our first full week of teaching is over. Things are going fairly well - I am continuing to enjoy getting to know my students better. Probably our biggest hurdle (as teachers) was the fact all of our copiers were down Wed - Fri. We all had to scramble a bit. I was able to use some of the knowledge I have gained recently to administer a quiz in AP Biology. I was able to save an Exam View quiz as a text edit file and email it to myself. I then tweaked it to a word file (which took a little doing due to diagrams, etc.) and, then saved as a PDF file. I repeated this in order to make 2 distinct versions (to give to students seated next to each other). Right before class started, I placed these 2 quiz versions on my wiki and had the students go to the gold lab. So my students took a "paperless" quiz. I removed the files right before the end of the period and put them back on shortly before my afternoon class. The students did not seem to mind (some used scratch paper to feel more comfortable). We'll see if the copiers are back up tomorrow!