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Submitted by Barbara Ericson
Published: 3 Jan 2014 - 16:50

 

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6gzm_ifzg8 for a video about how elevtaors typically work and an improved algorithm that tracks what floor each person wants to...

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Submitted by David Hayes
Published: 27 Oct 2013 - 12:30

The news provides lots of opportunities to connect ECS topics to the "real world."  

As we were starting the data collection lesson, a NYT article addressed the French response to revelations about the NSA collecting French citizens'...

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Submitted by Brian Fuschetto
Published: 26 Oct 2013 - 19:01

Visit Tableau.com for several free White papers on the concepts of Big Data and Data Visualizations useful for introducing and working through some of the concepts in the Investigate task.

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Submitted by Amy Wozniak
Published: 23 Sep 2013 - 11:02

Hello All,

When I was working on Days 5 - 7 I came across another social bookmarking site that is a bit superior to delicous.com.  http://www.diigo.com is a social networking site that also allows you (or students) to annotate while...

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Submitted by Todd Shattuck
Published: 18 Sep 2013 - 20:47

Hey folks

one of the activities we do is with chatbots... thus you may want to add this to your websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24107790

the new...

Groups: Into the Loop
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Submitted by Rebecca Dovi
Published: 24 Jul 2013 - 23:20
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Submitted by Crystal Furman
Published: 6 Jul 2013 - 15:38

Students will be assigned a historical person computer scientist to research.  Students will use their research to create a poster about the person using http://piktochart.com/. Students will also...

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Submitted by Crystal Furman
Published: 28 Jun 2013 - 22:20

Students will learn about the major hardware inside the computer as well as peripherals.  Students will categorize hardware components based on their common level of abstraction.  For example, a video game can use a keyboard, touch...

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Submitted by RachelAnn Murphy
Published: 27 Jun 2013 - 23:58

I was asked to share the names of the Apps I used for our Muddy City Presentation.  The presentation was created Haiku Deck.

The...

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Submitted by Rebecca Dovi
Published: 24 May 2013 - 17:45

Description of a class activity we did in the APCS Principles class using sidewalk chalk to develop algorithms as a part of the Programming Portfolio

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