Tuesday, September 3, 2013

090313WarmUp

Welcome to another year of GrokIt!

GrokIt originally appeared 5 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

8 comments:

jon said...


it was about life and death

jon said...

it was stupid to look down a gun and I will never do it in person

Unknown said...

yea there was some cool photos bro

Unknown said...

I hate iphones!!!!!
making more iphones are stupid waste of time ...

dmacRHS said...

Living in a cottage with a seaweed roof sounds fine for an island off the coast of Denmark, but I'm not sure it would look so good on a street in Revere, even though there is plenty of seaweed down the beach.

dmac

Unknown said...

the seaweed would make the house smell really bad and wouldnt look nice at all

Unknown said...

dont need that smartwatch its a waste

Unknown said...

the watch is so not needed. i wouldnt buy it.