Wednesday, January 27, 2010

0127WarmUp

Yesterday, you took quizzes about places in the world.

Today lets look at some others:

http://jmtb02.com/scribblestates/

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/connectworld/

http://www.ilike2learn.com/#nogo

Leave a comment!

dmac

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

102610WarmUp

Today you are going to take a trip. That's right!

Think you're a world traveler. Take the quiz @ http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/game1

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dmac

Monday, January 11, 2010

011110WarmUp

Today's date looks downright binary!

Did you know that on November 6th that an asteroid came within 8700 miles of the earth, the astronmical equivalent of a bullet grazing your skin.

What would would we earthlings do? Shoot a missle? Fire a rocket? Hire Bruce Willis to blow it up like in the movie "Armageddon" ?

Here are some strategies:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/defending_earth_010601-1.html

http://www.legendarypharma.com/jdf/impact.html

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009SoSyR..43..483I

http://library.isunet.edu/Thesaurus.htm?numrec=051914368919610

http://www.shvoong.com/exact-sciences/1698780-code-yellow-mits-radical-asteroid/

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/10/Asteroid/

What would you do?

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Friday, January 8, 2010

Monday, January 4, 2010

0104WarmUp

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

Wow, the first GrokIt! of the new year.

Let's take a look at interactive infographics.

What's an interactive infographic?

According to Larry Ferlazzo, ed consultant and tech guru, "Interactive Infographics are online representations of information or data that usually allow the user to “interact” with it and the data that is visualized."

Here are some interesting site for interactive infographics:

http://www.boston.com/interactive/graphics/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123125727470257535.html?mod=article-outset-box

http://www.time.com/time/graphics

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html

http://photos.denverpost.com/photoprojects/galleries/graphics.html

http://www.kansascity.com/news/interactive_graphics/

http://blogs.usatoday.com/interactivity/

Leave a comment!

dmac