Do Now: Wiki 3/31

Do now: What is a wiki? What wikis have you used? How can a wiki be used in education?
Obj: Comprehend what a wiki is and how it can be applied to education, planning, and learning.

Answer: I have used a wiki before to answer questions, type research papers, and study etc... Wiki's respond to comments and link to other writers, connecting to and creating interesting ideas. Some develop curriculum and instructional materials together. Others review resources and debate the merits of the individual tools of teaching. The difference between a wiki and a blog is that wikis are designed for collaboration among groups of users. On a wiki, the writing process is far less intimidating than on a blog because you're not responsible for an entire selection all by yourself.

Giant Robot Crab Walks on Ocean Floor

• The Crabster CR200 is a 1,400-pound behemoth of a 'bot soon being sent to the ocean floor—for both scientific and commercial use.
• The machine you see here isn't complete; the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology team will be adding the outer shell 
• But earlier this year the goal was to begin a full-depth (656 feet) testing in spring.

Do Now: Tech Article - What influences us to buy things?

Impulse Items: You know, those items that you see at the grocery store or where ever, in which case you'll be standing in the check out line and you'll see candy bars, magazines, etc.? Those impulse items very strongly influence others to buy things. Advertisers convince us we can't live without certain products,by showing ads that show how difficult day to day life is. 

Ex: We need an expensive coffee maker because it's so hard to make coffee without a $200 gadget. 

Blueprint: A Mini Sub That Could Steer Through The Body

• About the size of "Abraham Lincoln’s head on a penny," the device could travel through your body to deliver drugs and take samples.
• It is powered wireless by sending radio waves to its two-by-two-millimeter antenna.
• With the magnet, the prototype moves about 0.2 inches per second in a dish of saline.
• If it were in the blood stream—cleaning out your arteries, for example—you'd need a stronger magnet to overcome the flow of blood.

Do Now: Web 2.0

     You have been chosen to wear an invisible cloak for 1 day to perform a good deed and become the unknown/unrecognized hero! What good deed will you do? Without using any real names (you can make up names), blog at least 2 paragraphs about your day being invisible. All posts must be school appropriate.  


     Good deeds can be shown or done in numerous ways. In my opinion, getting noticed for a good deed, shouldn't be the reason why you are doing it. Knowing that you helped someone is enough, and it makes you feel better about yourself. People should try to help someone at least once a day. From holding doors to explaining a problem in math class without anything in return. Doing a good deed should be more than satisfactory to yourself and every one around you.
     If I was chosen to wear an invisible cloak, I would help everyone or anyone who needed help. I would help people taking tests by giving them the answers to the questions they didn't understand. I would also help people by saving their lives from certain danger. I would not want to face the fame or responsibility for saving someones life. Having that person to be in your debt after saving their life would be an awful feeling that no one would want to deal with. I would do anything to help others without the harassment of reporters and media.

This Robot Cop Could Bring Disabled Officers Into The Field

• The TeleBot, is a six-foot, 75-pound remote-controlled robot police officer developed by a team of undergrads at Florida International University's Discovery Lab.

• The built-from-scratch robot could help disabled officers and soldiers work as patrol officers, giving them a live view from wherever they are.

• It runs through the Oculus Rift headset and a motion-sensitive vest; when the person wearing the headset and vest moves, the robot moves, too.

• The Rift headset gives the robo-pilot a live feed of the robot's view, and it also comes with controllable hands

This Electric Sled Is A Miniature Winter Tank

• The Quebecois inventor Yvon Martel's most recent creation is this... thing.
• It's an electric sled/wagon/snow-chainsaw, and based on the video accompanying it, it works surprisingly well.
• It is called the M.T.T-136 (for My Track Technology)
• It weighs about 280 pounds and can haul a person or cargo for 130 miles on an eight-hour charge. 
• It is also really cool to watch it shear through snow.

Do Now 3/3/2014 How can spreadsheets be used in other classes

Spreadsheets are like lined paper with columns. They can be used to write numbers and make calculations. It uses formulas for adding, multiplying, or even finding averages, the spreadsheet will do the math for you. There is also a great advantage to spreadsheets over calculators. They allow you to see all of the numbers at one time. You can use spreadsheets to keep track of your money, your test scores, or to work a complicated math problem. Teachers use spreadsheets to record student marks so that they can determine student averages and class means in real-time and also to view data in various formats since they are able to make important visual discoveries about their data.