Touring Slonim’s On-Line World

(AP Econ style)

A little change of pace assignment for you…… You are going to embark on a tour of our AP Econ Website. It will be most enlightening. You will begin your tour on my homepage. As you follow your tour, type your answers in the space below the questions. This activity is intended to give you an opportunity to learn how much information is available for this class through the use of the Internet. It will also help you become skilled at navigating through my website. Most importantly, your tour should provide you an opportunity to realize how using this website can be an invaluable tool leading to success in your AP Economics experience.

  1. What is the web address of my Homepage? ( If I were doing this assignment, I would highlight and copy the address in Explorer and paste it onto this document)
  2. What is the web address of AP Economics?
  3. What do you hear when you load AP Economics?
  4. What happens when you click on Daily Assignments?
  5. Click on August 25th. What did we do in class? What was our homework?
  6. What are the first two terms that we are going to learn about? How could you find out a good definition for them?
  7. What if there was another term that you didn’t know and it wasn’t already linked to a definition? How could you find a definition for it?
  8. How would you find out what we were going to be studying right after Thanksgiving? Explain briefly.
  9. Click on September 15th on the calendar (the 4th Monday). Notice we will look at Visuals 2.2 2.3. What happens when you click on them? How can this be beneficial to you?
  10. Click on McConnell & Brue On-line Learning. (this site is Most Awesome!) Click on Chapter 2 - THE Economizing Problem. What do you see on this page? (feel free to copy & paste)
  11. Click on Press here to take Chapter2-1 Quick Quiz. What does this have in common with page 27 in the textbook?
  12. What would clicking on Multiple Choice test McConnell and Brue 14th Edition do? How would this be helpful to you?
  13. How cool is this?
  14. Back on the AP Econ Homepage, click on Microeconomics Unit 1Basic Concepts. What do you find?
  15. You’re in Unit 1 of Microeconomics. You’re preparing for your first test. Identify at least 3 different ways that this website will be helpful in helping you prepare for the test.
  16. How do you get into the Indian Hill AP Economics Hall of Fame?
  17. How do tests & quizzes appear differently on the assignment pages?
  18. How can the website help you check on your grade in this class? (not by asking me)
  19. Identify the 3 most important pages that you should add to your Favorites (or bookmarks) list from this site.
  20. What is one way that I can make this website better for your use in AP Economics?

APEcon Tour