1218WarmUp

The title of this blog is GrokIt!. You have been accessing the site since the beginning of school. But what's a grok?

Look up the definition and leave a comment!

dmac

1217WarmUp

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. Blueray holds 500 GB of data.

1216WarmUp

Do you have a Myspace account? Do you know who you are really accepting as friends?

Read what happened to someone who pretended to be someone they weren't on Myspace @ http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/lori-drew-attor.html

Leave a comment!

dmac

1215WarmUp

Looking for the ultimate stocking stuffer? Try http://www.alienware.com/
and http://www.digitalstormonline.com/pcworld.

These boxes are dirty!

Leave a comment.

dmac

1212WarmUp

We all enjoy communicating in class with Gmail. But what new functionality has Google been working on to make it even better?

Check it out @ http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html.

Leave a comment!

dmac

1211WarmUp

What's a wiki? Look it up @ http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki.

Find some examples of wikis on the web @ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors.

Look at a how-to wiki @ http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Main_Page.

Leave a comment!

dmac

1210WarmUp

Today, in 1901, the first Nobel Prize was awarded.

What is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
and http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/

Who is Alfred Nobel? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

How many prizes are awarded? http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/nobelguide.html

To whom? http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/all/

Who are the contenders this year? Who do you think should get it? Why?

What do they serve at the Nobel dinner?

Leave a comment!

dmac

1209WarmUp

December 9th, a day that will live in infamy. AIB--that's December 7th!

Let's take a second and step into the WayBack Machine--something very important occured on this day back in 1968.

Check it out @ http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1209.

What did happen at "The Mother of All Demos? You can ACTUALLY WATCH it @ http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html.

What kind of stuff did the demo premiere and why was it important to computing?

Leave a comment!

dmac

120808WarmUp

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!

dmac

1205WarmUp

Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, India--they all have nuclear weapons. And if they get trigger happy, it could be--doomsday!

What's a doomsday device?

Look it up @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_device.

Check out the best fictional doomsday devices @ http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/multimedia/2008/11/gallery_doomsday?slide=1&slideView=4

Leave a comment!

dmac

1204WarmUp

Did you know that Massachusetts throws away over 1oo million dollars of recyclables each year.

Check out the Mass Recycles Paper website @ http://www.massrecyclespaper.org/reasons.html

What kind of paper do you throw out that you can recycle. Check it out @ http://www.massrecyclespaper.org/what.html.

What can schools do? Look @ http://www.massrecyclespaper.org/schools.html.

What is the green team? Look @ http://www.thegreenteam.org/index.html
and http://www.thegreenteam.org/kit.html.

Leave a comment!

dmac

1203WarmUp

What's Whole Foods market doing with used cooking oil? Look it up @ http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/12/01/whole_foods_canola_oil_isnt_just_for_cooking_it_makes_electricity_too/

Watch the video @ http://multimedia.boston.com/green-meter.htm

Leave a comment!

dmac

1202WarmUp

Cars and guitars--an interesting combo!

Read about the 10 best car songs @ http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/11/as-we-prepare-f.html.

Listen to them on Playlist.com @ http://www.playlist.com/.

Which is your favorite? And why? Leave a vote and a comment! dmac

1201WarmUp

Today is CyberMonday.

What is the history? Check it out @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday.

Look at some good deals @ http://www.cybermonday.com/?source=1x10x30_11760&gclid=CLrY4P-9n5cCFQrAGgodlHGQ_A

Find a good deal on a laptop and tell me about it.

Leave a comment!

dmac