1. Someone is missing!!
2. You will receive your first project grade this year on your class page. Everyone did a great job commenting on others’ pages and responding to comments.
I will call each student individually into my office to show you your grade spreadsheet. While you’re waiting, check these out:
What does it cost to make an iPhone?
Is it possible to completely remove yourself from the internet?
Signs you spend too much time online.
How about trying to control a telescope through a website?
Try checking the speed of your favorite websites.
Check out some really interesting online maps or maybe just check in with Harry Potter.
Some more fun:
http://www.onlinepumpkincarving.com/
http://fallingsandgame.com/sand/
http://www.novelgames.com/flashgames/game.php?id=129
3. Last week we talked about Google turning 15. See where Google began.
Google has changed over the past fifteen years. From the NYT:
“Now, Google, the world’s most popular search engine, will focus more on trying to understand the meanings of and relationships among things, as opposed to its original strategy of matching keywords.”
Also related: what really happens when you send an email using Gmail?
Guess who else is also 15 (not you)!
4. A discussion about Google brings us to today’s lesson on web tools. Before you get deeply involved in creating content for the internet you should know about some basic web tools.
How do you find out information about a website such as its owner and host?
Reverse image search engine- find out where image came from and if others exist
Wolfram Alpha “knowledge engine”
http://www.wolframalpha.com/tour/examples.html
Enter in a query or click on one of the icons on the main page
“Wayback Machine” Internet archive- see archived versions of webpages
http://archive.org/web/web.php
What’s trending on Twitter?
5. Your next project
You will create an interactive timeline that will be posted on your class page.
Here is my example:
Further instructions for you to follow Friday!