Friday, March 21, 2025

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Welcome to another year of GrokIt!

GrokIt originally appeared 2 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.

Thursday, March 20, 2025

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Today's GrokIt: 

Think personal computers have been around for a long time?

Behold, the history of personal computing, before your very eyes!

Step into the wayback machine and visit an online computer museum @ http://www.digibarn.com/collections/index.html#collection.

Find the funkiest computer and tell me about it.

Leave a comment and a picture of your favorite on Slack!

Mr. DeMarco

Friday, March 7, 2025

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Today's GrokIt:

Still a little diffident about coding. Check out: Free Coding - Rodocodo 

Leave a comment on Slack!

Mr. DeMarco

Friday, February 14, 2025

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Today's GrokIt:

Ever been to Interand?

Check it out @ Play Interland - Be Internet Awesome

Leave a comment on Slack!

Mr. DeMarco


Tuesday, January 28, 2025

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Today's GrokIt:

So you got introduced to Snap. Check out the Snap tutorials:

https://forum.snap.berkeley.edu/c/how-to/20

Leave a comment on Slack!

Mr. DeMarco

Monday, January 27, 2025

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Today's GrokIt:

We're jumping into coding and starting with a new IDE: SNAP

https://bjc.edc.org/bjc-r/course/bjc4nyc.html

Click on unit 1 and follow along.

Mr. DeMarco