091222 Warm Up

 Today's GrokIt:

Looking for the ultimate gift for you or your nerdy friend? 

Try http://www.alienware.com/ and http://www.digitalstormonline.com/pcworld.

These boxes are dirty!

Leave a comment.

Mr. DeMarco

09092022 WarmUp

Today's GrokIt:

Data storage has been growing exponentially over the past decade. Look up the following capacities on the Internet:

byte

kilobyte

megabyte

gigabyte

terabyte

petabyte

exabyte

zettabyte

yottabyte.

How big are they?

Give me an example of what can be stored with each capacity, i.e. Blue ray holds 500 GB of data. How  many movies is that?

Mr. DeMarco

090822 Warm Up

Today's GrokIt:

What's the capital of the United States? How about France? And Italy?

Bet you don't know which countries have these capitals: Riyadh, Ankara, Islamabad, Jakarta, Pyongyang, Warsaw, Brussels, Canberra, Wellington?

Look them up and leave a comment!

Mr. DeMarco

090722 WarmUp

 Today's GrokIt:

The title of this blog is GrokIt! You have been accessing the site since the beginning of school. But what does it mean?

Look up the definition. 

What's a Grok? When was it first used? By whom? And where?

How is it pronounced? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=grok+meaning&docid=607994862210398826&mid=566D5F5A1ED3937D37EA566D5F5A1ED3937D37EA&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

Which other famous (sort of) person has used the term?

What is Grokking Science?

Leave a comment in Slack!

Mr. DeMarco

090122 Warm-up

Today's GrokIt:

Let's take a look at a cool coding video to get you up to speed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvyTEx1wyOY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7Q33ysCwI

Leave a comment!

dmac

083122WorkPlan

 Today's GrokIt:

Welcome to another year of GrokIt!

GrokIt originally appeared 14 years ago. While teaching at RHS, I conceived it as the digital equivalent of the Do Now or activator you may be used to other teachers giving to you to start the class.

Interestingly enough, I believe the blog has taken up a much more important role in my classes.

I envision using GrokIt as a hi-tech portal to get you and your energies focused on the class topics of the day by hyperlinking around the net to:

•discover state-of the-art technologies

•bump into some engaging topic

•just enjoy a fun and interesting website.

My hope is to try to kindle a spark of interest in computers and technology.

After all, the World Wide Web and everything in it was created by software developers, computer programmers, web designers, all kinds of techie people of which you are the next generation.

I also want to create a class community, a public forum from which you could express your opinions and see the opinions of others about these topics.

So here's today's GrokIt.

One of my favorite sites is Wired. Check it out @

http://www.wired.com/

Pick one article, read it and leave a comment.

Mr. DeMarco

082521WorkPlan

Today's GrokIt:

Welcome to another year of GrokIt!

GrokIt originally appeared 12 years ago. While teaching at RHS, I conceived it as the digital equivalent of the Do Now or activator you may be used to other teachers giving to you to start the class.

Interestingly enough, I believe the blog has taken up a much more important role in my classes.

I envision using GrokIt as a hi-tech portal to get you and your energies focused on the class topics of the day by hyperlinking around the net to:

•discover state-of the-art technologies

•bump into some engaging topic

•just enjoy a fun and interesting website.

My hope is to try to kindle a spark of interest in computers and technology.

After all, the World Wide Web and everything in it was created by software developers, computer programmers, web designers, all kinds of techie people of which you are the next generation.

I also want to create a class community, a public forum from which you could express your opinions and see the opinions of others about these topics.

So here's today's GrokIt.

One of my favorite sites is Wired. Check it out @

http://www.wired.com/

Pick one article, read it and leave a comment.

dmac