Today's Grokit:
Today you are going to take a trip. That's right!
Think you're a world traveler. Take a trip: travle.earth/
Leave a comment on Slack!
Mr. DeMarco
Today's Grokit:
Today you are going to take a trip. That's right!
Think you're a world traveler. Take a trip: travle.earth/
Leave a comment on Slack!
Mr. DeMarco
Today's GrokIt:
Welcome to another year of 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 @
Pick one article, read it and leave a comment.
Mr. DeMarco
Today's GrokIt:
You need to come up with an idea for a video game. Look at the videos on this website to build some foundational skills with Kodu:
https://mrpook.weebly.com/kodu-game-lab.html
Mr. DeMarco
Today's GrokIt:
How do you design a video game? Look at these sites:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/designing-video-games.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Design-a-Video-Game
What different types of video games are there?
http://www.bizymoms.com/hobbies/types-of-video-games.html
Leave a comment!
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:
Make a pong game in Snap. Watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJdf4-wWDk
Leave a comment in Slack
Mr. DeMarci
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
WarmUps/activators for dmac's programming and technology students @RHS/SeaCoast HS, Revere, MA.