GrokIt!

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

041525WarmUp

Try this binary puzzle:

https://games.penjee.com/binary-numbers-game/

Leave a comment on Slack!

Mr. DeMarco

Friday, April 11, 2025

041125WarmUp

Today's GrokIt:

Did you know that doodling is good for the brain?

Read all about it:

Why doodling is good for your brain - Youth Mind (theyouthmind.ca)

How about a Doodle challenge?

Check it out @ Quick, Draw! (quickdraw.withgoogle.com)

Leave a comment on Slack!

Mr. DeMarco

041025WarmUp

Today's GrokIt:

We are working a lot with drawing tools in Engineering class this trimester, Paint, Pixelart, Adobe Express.

How about AutoDraw?

Check it out @ https://experiments.withgoogle.com/autodraw

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Mr. DeMarco

Friday, March 21, 2025

032125WarmUp

Welcome to another year of GrokIt!

GrokIt originally appeared 2 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.

Computers, computers, computers....they're everywhere!

Take a look at some inventions that contributed to the development of the computer.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_is_a_computer.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004637.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=inventions&media=video

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventions.htm

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm

http://listverse.com/2009/03/29/top-10-ancient-inventions-you-think-are-modern/

http://listverse.com/2009/06/07/10-more-ancient-inventions-you-think-are-modern/