Teach Yourself an Online Tool

There are many new online tools that you can use to learn new things or create content. Take a look at this list. Select a tool that you are unfamiliar with and learn it. You have till the end of class to learn the tool and how it works. Some of these have phone apps that you might wan to try as well.

Livebinders
Yelp
Urban Spoon
AudioBoom
Twiddla
Vyew
NotebookCast
Cloze
IFTT
Diigio
Digg
Feedly
Instapaper
Last.fm
Slack
Slice
Todoist
Trackif
Readability
PushBullet
Numerous
MixRad
NimbusNote
Periscope
Blogger



Assignment:

1. Select one of the Web or phone apps from the list above
2. Create an account and learn what the app does and how it works.
3. Present your findings to the class.
4. Write up a review of the tool. Desribe what it does, it's strengths and weaknesses, and alternative tools. Write your review in a Google doc and share it with me.  

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cg-J0EqgL8TTM6Zw0oHvQ-NjcyPXROaoH9yLsescDe8/edit?usp=sharing

This assignment is worth 10 points.

The Basics of Computing

Teacher Survey

Use Google Forms to create a teacher survey.

http://goo.gl/forms/VUHvqjjm1o

Class Surveys

Here are the class surveys. Please complete all of them.

Mr. Maners Class Survey - http://goo.gl/forms/k80MMf2Ymg

Cell Phone Survey - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eBIn8YeDNulB4Ii6K7lYYvje1NwTHRU7wVj5ROHYXEY/viewform?c=0&w=1

Snack Survey - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y3Z7DaoJdo5y4yqG8ah6fCNFlYnE7CCw8UlJy0lqp5A/viewform?c=0&w=1

Phone Survey - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZHgLk9na5EUiL-5eputriaBXRkwZykvCgDutuScQWP0/viewform?c=0&w=1

Another Snack Survey - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Iw0WH-sT0F3Nlz8CKCBcCxVCo0fxn8NOZcyN8InW7-U/viewform?c=0&w=1

McDonald's Survey - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SXF8nFOgUYdXPWM656SSgw_uQC2X9D_W3MfNvhKbEXQ/viewform?c=0&w=1

Market Research

Shoes - Puma is looking to expand their market share in the youth market. They want to know what shoes students are buying and what price they are paying. Also, what is most important to them (style, price, celebrity endorsement, etc.).

Cell Phones - A cell phone company is looking at offering a new smart phone. The company wants to know how many students use smart phones, what brands they use, what carrier they use, and why.

Snacks - A snack machine company is looking to stock it’s machines at schools with snacks that students would like to eat. There are a limited number of slots for snack crackers, chips, candy and snack cakes. Your job is to create a survey to find out the categories of snacks students would like and what specific snacks in each category.

Soda - A soda company wants to find out what students like to drink. A drink machine can hold carbonated drinks as well as sports drinks and non carbonated drinks like tea and chocolate milk. Your job is to find out which drinks will be most popular.

Fast Food - McDonald’s is trying to create a healthier menu. They are looking at adding a grilled chicken sandwich, a pan fried fish sandwich, or a mexican style salad, all priced at $3 each. Which of these items would be the most popular or should they be looking at adding a different item? Your job is to find out what they need to do.

Create a Google Form to conduct market research to answer the above questions. Test the form within your group before sending it out to your classmates.

A Math Riddle

Here's a riddle. If you can solve this, I'll award you 5 bonus points.

Three men walk into a cafe and have lunch. Needing to leave early, they each leave a $10 bill on the table, knowing that it will easily cover the bill. Shortly after getting outside, the waitress chaises them down saying that they paid too much. She gives them five $1 bills to distribute among themselves. Not knowing for sure how to divide it up, they each take a dollar bill, leaving two. Then they start thinking, "We originally paid $10 each making it $30. Now by each taking a dollar, 3 people x $9=$27. We have just $2 left from the $5 the waitress gave us. What happened to the other dollar?"

See if you can figure out what happened to the missing dollar.

Phil Zimbardo - Heroes