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August 25th, 2010 | 
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What activities should me and my friends do on Senior Week, before we graduate University? Any ideas please?
Ok My friends and I are going to graduate from University of Pennsylvania in June, and we get a week where there is no school and we can go and do activities. So I need some ideas of activities that will be very memorable for me and my friends to spend before we graduate and start a busy life working everyday. Many Thanks To People Who Answered .
round them all up and play amtgard
a medieval live action roleplaying game using foam weapons
go to yahoogroups and search "amtgard"
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The History of the Holidays
The history of the Holidays
Geography, History & Canary Island Holidays
Gran Canaria and Tenerife belong to the Spanish archipelago known as the Canary Islands and are located off the western coast of Africa. The islands landscape vary from white and gold sandy beaches along crystal clear waters to green mountains and volcanoes. The destination with its tropical climate is popular for a variety of water sports, but there are also many historical and environmental sites to explore.
The warm, clear island water provides the perfect environment for boating, fishing, swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving and sailing. Dive shops offer training for those who have no experience to those desiring to become certified. Guests have the unique opportunity to come face to face with the colorful underwater world filled with living coral reefs, sponges, jellyfish and various species and sizes of tropical fish. Boating excursions take visitors on scenic tours of the islands or on dolphin and whale excursions. A few of the vessels are equipped with glass bottoms to view local marine life. Submarine adventures allow guests to view the amazing underwater world without stepping foot into the ocean.
Facts & places to visit
Those enjoying Gran Canaria holidays explore Las Palmas, the capital city, with its distinct 15th and 16th century buildings. Casa de Colon is an expansive mansion renovated into an art and nautical museum. It is reputed that Christopher Columbus once stayed here and one of his fleet's ships is on exhibit. Various artefacts are on display providing the area's marine and cultural history.
Palmitos Park contains biological and zoological exhibits in a rainforest environment that encompasses over 200,000 m2 at the foothills of the mountains. Colourful native parrots and birds of prey provide live demonstrations and are among the birds collected from around the world. Other displays include an aquarium, dolphins, primates and reptiles. The park also contains an orchid house, a butterfly house and hundreds of species of palm trees along lakes, rivers and streams.
Tenerife holidays may include a visit to the Teide National Park containing Mount Teide. Standing at 3718m tall, the volcano is the third largest in the world. Hiking up and down the summit and around the beautiful landscape are great past times. Archaeological enthusiasts tour the mysterious Guimar Pyramids. Originally thought to have been built by native farmers, archaeologists have found similar structures in Mexico and Peru. Bananera is a local plantation that welcomes visitors to learn the agricultural history of the island and enjoy the many tropical trees and plants.
About the Author
Amy Scott has over 15 years experience in the travel industry. She loves the Mediterranean and North Africa and especially likes to write about holidays to Majorca and Sharm El Sheik.
History of the Holidays: Columbus Day
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online quiz
How A Good Quiz Maker Prevent Cheating On Online Testing
As eLearning will become more necessary and popular for its low-cost and efficiency, online testing is a necessity for implementing eLearning. However cheating and security problem are pressing concerns for organizations adopting online testing. So when choose a quiz maker to create online test the abilities to prevent cheating and assure security effectively are the Paramount consideration.
What abilities should a good quiz maker possess?
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Access ability to quiz
The ability of accessibility to quiz is a telling strategy to assure the security of your quiz. You can protect your quizzes from spread spitefully by some badman. It would be better if you have more options to set the access ability with quiz maker. Take Wondershare Quiz Maker for example, it supply four ways for users to access the quiz. Access with password only, access with user ID and password, online access control and domain limit online access. Of course, if you want the quiz spread anywhere by anyone, you also have the option to not set the accessibility.
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Time quiz
Looking up answers to questions in textbook/reading or searching the answers from website are the common issues for cheating. This is obvious when give giving a chapter check quiz. However, timed quiz is one of the most effective ways to eliminate such cheating. When students should answer the questions in a timed quiz in a certain amount of time, they won't have time to look up all the answers if you give enough questions and make the time short enough. Such as the quiz with timer below which created by Wondershare Quiz Maker.
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Shuffle choices
If the quiz maker let you shuffle choices, it means that the order of choices within each question will be randomly shuffled each time an examinee attempts this quiz. So this makes it a little harder for students to copy from each other. It is an effective way to prevent cheating to some extent. Many quiz tools have such feature, such as Articulate QuizMaker below.
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Randomize questions
Randomizing questions reduces the chance of cheating. I will expound the reasons from the following two points.
Firstly, randomized questions make the printouts a lot less useful. Especially, when there are amount of questions in the question banks, students can only print a small number of questions at a time, if they want to get the full questions they will need to view the test again and again, and then sort the questions to eliminate duplicates.
Secondly, if students are on the same campus, they may get together in a lab and try to take the quiz together. Random question order is an easy strategy to thwart cheating. If my screen doesn't look like yours, then it's harder for students to quickly answer all of the questions.
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Limit answer attempts
Set a reasonable time limit for completion.
Limiting the amount of time to answers attempts for which students can access a test makes any form of cheating difficult to implement. Note: Don't be too restrictive, but don't give students forever either. Do not make the test available until the day you want students to begin taking it. -
Multiple question types supported
The more quiz types the quiz maker has, the more efficacious the quiz to overcome online cheating. Particularly, Essays, case studies, and other complex question types can be challenging to answer even if students look up book. Students have to understand the material and apply it creatively to answer the questions. So how many question types a quiz maker supports is an important factor when choosing a quiz maker.
As far as I know, Moodle quiz module allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types. But it is a little complex to create quiz. Take a view of the popular quiz makers, Articulate QuizMaker supports 9 types, Wondershare Quiz Maker supports 9 quiz types...
Of course, easy-to-use feature is also another factor to choose a quiz maker. There are also many free online quiz makers available: easytestmaker, classmaker and proprofs quizschool, you could make some small quiz with them. For make powerful multimedia Flash quiz, I suggest you choose some stand alone quiz maker. Articulate quizmaker is great, but it is a little expensive, you could take it into consideration. As for me, Wondershare Quiz Maker will be more cost-effective from its price and function.
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The author is an expert in E-learning who dedicated to providing the best solution of PowerPoint to Flash, also include some tips and tricks to make your life and work easier.
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How to become a better twirler in colorguard and how to prepare for captain position?
I'm a junior in highschool and I've been in colorguard for four yrs now. I was wondering how could I better myself to become a better twirler. Also I'm thinking about trying out for captain next year and I would like some tips on what to expect and so on!
I am going on my 5th year of colorguard now and have two state championship medals to my name and am a WGI finalist. Personally they way I got better at first was to put videos of me spinning on youtube and ask for help and what I was doing wrong. At that time it was the only help I could get no one at the program I was in had much experience. (I also watch TONS of youtube videos and just tried what i saw on them) If you do have the resources us them ask help from a instructor or a captain or even an other guard member that you know is better than you. If there are guard camps offered around your area go to them! That was what brought me to the next level. Even if it is an independent team holding the camp/clinic go they are normally for all skill levels.
Now as for captain goes. Normally a good captain is good because they have the natural ability to lead but that ability can also be learned. I recommend watching your current captains and how they act. Also watch other captains of other sports your job is to keep the guard in line and keep the motivated. Also think about putting yourself in worst case scenarios. For instance two guard members get in a full on fight what do you do? OR someone doesn't show up for a show/practice and does not have a valid reason? stuff like that. (I was a captain my senior year and it was a blast)
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