Today's GrokIt:
It's our last class of the year and very close to our holiday vacation. Here's a bit of holiday cheer!
http://readwrite.com/2014/12/22/norad-santa-tracker-how-it-began-popsugartech
https://santatracker.google.com/village.html
Leave a comment!
Mr. DeMarco
Today's GrokIt:
Here's some websites to generate a strong password:
https://www.strongpasswordgenerator.org/
https://www.lastpass.com/features/password-generator
https://passwordsgenerator.net/
https://1password.com/password-generator
and check it out for strength @:
Password Strength Meter (passwordmonster.com)
Leave a comment on Slack!
Mr. DeMarco
Today's GrokIt:
Tower of Hanoi is a classic 'programming' puzzle.
Check it out @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi
Play it @ https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/towerofhanoi.html
Leave a comment on Slack.
Mr. DeMarco
Today's GrokIt:
In life, what you see is not necessarily what you get!
Check out these optical illusions @ http://www.optillusions.com/
Leave a comment in Slack!
Mr. DeMarco
Today's 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 @
https://www.wired.com/gallery/tech-gifts-for-kids-2023/Pick one article, read it and leave a comment.
Mr. DeMarco
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
Yesterday was Halloween! Are you dressing up as a ghoul or a zombie??--kid's stuff!
What is Halloween really all about? What does it mean?
Look it up @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
and
http://www.history.com/content/halloween
Take a look @ these Halloween websites:
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/games/spelloween/spelloween.html
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-dark-wood.htm
http://www.theoworlds.com/halloween/
http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/ghost-hunter/
http://www.pinkbunnylilli.de/funny-halloween/
http://www.garfield.com/fungames/scavengerhunt/scavengerhunt.html
http://mac.rash.jp/games/dasyutu/40/index.html
http://www.addictinggames.com/halloweenescape.html
http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/trick-or-treat-adventure/
Leave a scary comment!
dmac
