GOODBYE!

Hello Guys,

It was a great pleasure to meet you all and work with you guys. I’ve so much from you all and thank you all for being so kind this semester, I wish you all good luck with finals and good luck with everything in life. I would like to thank Professor Walsh. I wish you all Merry Christmas a happy New Year. May God bless you all, Always be kind to one another. Take Care!

This blog has been for an Immersive Education class at Boston College.  The class is called Collaborative Computing.  We have learned about all of the current ways for collaborating over the web as well as ways that this might be done in the future with virtual and augmented reality.  For more information you guys can take a look at this link please; 

http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

FINAL STEP 8: GOOGLE FOLDERS

This is a picture of the contents of my Google Drive Folder.

This is a picture of my Google Folder sharing it with our Google Group.

FINAL STEP 7: GOOGLE DOCUMENTS

This is the share window open.

In this picture as you can see i'm choosing people that could the document instead of editing.

In this picture i just add our Google Group. 

Turning on the revision history

Gong through the old version of the document

The document before i added the second paragraph.

This is the last picture of the document, its available on our Google Group.

FINAL STEP 6: EMBEDDING VIMEO

HyperZoom is a different form of Zooming into or out of a shot with virtually no restrictions to the range of the zoom. It enables the camera to zoom to a new location and actually be there to move forward to ever new locations. In this video you will be able to see what you can really do with the Hyperzoom. The beautiful historic town of Hallstatt is a Unesco World Heritage site in Upper Austria. It is visited by many thousands of tourists each year but perhaps none of them get to see it quite like this. As if on the back of an invisible insect we fly around the sites of this wonderful town in one continuous journey passing through buildings to emerge in different parts of the town, finally ending up on the new viewpoint from Rudolfsturm perched high above the ancient town square. Take a look at this beautiful place guys, this is so amazing.

FINAL STEP 5: EMBEDDING YOUTUBE

Microsoft HoloLens is the first fully untethered, holographic computer, enabling high-definition holograms to integrate with your world. Help develop the future of holographic computing. Come unlock new possibilities. Microsoft HoloLens is made up of specialized components that together enable holographic computing. The optical system that works in lock-step with advanced sensors. The hpu that makes light of processing a large amount of data per second. All those component and more enable you to move freely and interact with holograms. This video of Microsoft HoloLens is one of my favorite because it shows every single detail about the product and while you watching the video you can see how it works.

Welcome to the world’s first live virtual reality birth using the Samsung Gear VR. Samsung streamed a baby boy's birth to a virtual reality headset worn by his father nearly 2,500 miles away, in what it's calling the first birth ever live-streamed using VR. Samsung set the stream up for a man who, as its ad says, had work that took him out of town during his child's birth, with the intention of giving him something close to the experience of actually being there. This is such a great video, this product makes this guy dream come true because he had no idea he was going to be able to see the birth of his child and with the help of Samsung Gear VR, they made it happen, I love this video because there’s a great message in it, and it shows anything is possible in this world.

For more information on Technologies: Check out the BUZZ! page from the Immersive Education Initiative at: http://immersiveeducation.org/buzz

FINAL STEP 4: GOOGLE HANGOUTS

As you can see in the pictures i was talking to one of my classmates on the Google Hangouts and we used text chat as well and we also had a video call.

Final Step 3:AUDIO WHITEBOARD

This is a picture of my Audio Whiteboard, as you can see my microphone is on and i'm able to talk and i upload a picture and there's a text also.

Final Step 2: SLACK

Soon! IMMERSION 2016 and the 6th European

Soon! IMMERSION 2016 and the 6th European

Soon! IMMERSION 2016 and the 6th European ‪#‎Immersive‬ ‪#‎Education‬Summit ‪#‎EiED‬ to be announced this month. Stay tuned athttp://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org ‪#‎VR‬ ‪#‎VirtualReality‬ ‪#‎Immersion‬

See more at: http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/

Bent's Old Fort Minecraft Recreation

the Superintendent's Office

 

the second Superintendent office 

the east corral

the computer room

Video Games as Collaboration Tools Report.

Video games have the potential to be deeply engaging for learners. For decades, psychologists have studied video games as models of intrinsically motivated learning. The techniques that games use—fantasy, control, challenge, curiosity, collaboration and competition—are now the cornerstones of motivational theory. Games have grown in complexity, and our understandings of them have grown as well. Consider for a moment how games have moved away from requiring players to read instructions. By analyzing what players do, and by providing real-time feedback to the player, game designers can successfully teach players how to play without supplemental materials. Educators often have similar goals: We want to deliver feedback just in time, while students are engaged in meaningful activity. This capacity for immediate feedback and instruction is a primary reason to use games for learning, because, in a modern school setting, real-time feedback is difficult to come by.

Games can record learners’ actions, which opens new opportunities for data-driven decision-making. Students, teachers, parents, and administrators can view individual or aggregated data across play sessions. With the assistance of data-based metrics collected from games, educators might know when a learner is on- or off-task, or know when a learner is struggling with a concept. For example, in “ProgenitorX,” players face an outbreak of zombies due to a virus that escaped a science lab. Players use stem cells to grow tissues and organs and heal the victims of the zombie plague. Liz Owen and Rich Halverson studied player data and found that successfully completing the game’s advanced levels is a strong predictor of player performance on traditional post-tests—meaning the player has learned some stem cell science.

 Soon, data visualizations will be available to students and teachers. We imagine them supporting students reflecting on their own learning, as well as deep conversations among teachers, students, and perhaps parents and the public about learning. Our goal is not to replace teachers, but to empower teachers through tools that make their jobs easier and more fun. We imagine games helping teachers not only by making learning fun and interesting for students, but also by giving them better tools for diagnosing and assessing learning.

VR Collaboration Report.

Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment. On a computer, virtual reality is primarily experienced through two of the five senses: sight and sound. The simplest form of virtual reality is a 3-D image that can be explored interactively at a personal computer, usually by manipulating keys or the mouse so that the content of the image moves in some direction or zooms in or out. More sophisticated efforts involve such approaches as wrap-around display screens, actual rooms augmented with wearable computers, and haptics devices that let you feel the display images.

In short, it all has to do with a computer doing its best to trick your brain. A virtual reality headset shows you an image and as soon as you move your head it modifies that image to make it seem like you’re really there. 3D audio can also enhance the experience and make you forget your physical surroundings. What can this technology be used for? Movies and gaming is an obvious option, but virtual reality has a slew of other possible uses. It can be used for training, medical procedures, and even psychological therapy to treat disorders like PTSD. Gaming as we know it is about to change. New visual computing advancements and gear such as Oculus Rift engage players with immersive, interactive and intense sensory experiences. It’s like super realistic science fiction playing out right before your eyes. “Virtual Reality (VR) is a set of technologies that are aimed at fooling your senses into believing that you’re in a different environment than the real world,” said Kim Pallister, Director of Content Strategy for Intel’s Visual Computing Group, explaining how virtual reality works.

Virtual reality is an immersive experience in which your head movements are tracked in a three dimensional world, making it suited to games and even movies. While VR was a non-starter back in the 90s, developers are now creating mind-blowing experiences, which look set to revolutionize gaming. The most incredible thing is that the latest and greatest VR experiences don't require mind-bending technology. Oculus Rift is the virtual reality headset that started the current hysteria. Developed by 21-year-old engineer Palmer Luckey, funded via Kickstarter and snapped by by Facebook for a cool $2bn, the Rift plugs into your computer's DVI and USB ports and tracks your head movements to provide 3D imagery to its stereo screens.

Class 12: Google Drive Folders

In this picture i just upload an image of Google Drive in my new folder Immersion 2016 outreach.

In the second picture I'm sharing the folder with our Google Group.

In the last picture i shared my folder page with you guys.

Class 12: What is Google Drive?

Google Drive is a Cloud File Storage Service, powered by the Google Inc.  On Google Drive, you can easily store your files (photos, documents, videos, etc.), and you can reach them from any devices (smartphone, tablet, PC, etc.).  If any of the files had changed, the change can be seen on any device. Google Drive is a free service from Google that allows you to store files online and access them anywhere using the cloud. Google Drive also gives you access to free web-based applications for creating documents, spreadsheets, and more.  Google Drive doesn't just store your files; it also allows you to create, share, and manage documents with its own productivity apps. If you've ever used a suite like Microsoft Office, some things about Google Drive's apps might seem familiar. For instance, the types of files you can work with are similar to files that can be created with various Microsoft Office programs. 

Google Drive is one of the most popular cloud storage services available today, offering 15 gigabytes (15GB) of free storage space. If you've never used a cloud-based storage service like Google Drive before, take a moment to consider the advantages of keeping your files online. Because files can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection, Drive eliminates the need to email or save a file to a USB drive. And because Drive allows you to share files, working with others becomes much easier.

Google Drive could become your centralized storage vault for all your documents on the cloud. Google Drive automatically becomes the home for all your Google Docs. In fact, when you sign-in, you won’t see Google Docs anymore in its traditional avatar. Your owned documents are located under My Drive while any shared documents are arranged under Shared with me. As in the screen below, you can easily create new documents or create specific folders to organize all your documents. You can also drag files shared with you to specific folders under My Drive.

Google Drive lets you create and collaborate in the old way as Google Docs did. It also tracks changes on documents and keeps revision copies of up to 30 days or the last 100 revisions. Above that and Google Drive deletes the oldest versions. Each file shared or otherwise comes with time stamps. Google Drive is all about uploading and storing files in the cloud. You can upload images and videos easily by dropping them into the Google Drive desktop app. You can convert files to Google Docs format with the Export to Google Docs feature and edit them online collaboratively.

Class 11, Instagram as a Collaboration tool.

Instagram is a social networking app made for sharing photos and videos from a smartphone. Similar to Facebook or Twitter, everyone who creates an account has a profile and a news feed. When you post a photo or video on Instagram, it will be displayed on your profile. Other users who follow you will see your posts in their own feed. Likewise, you'll see posts from other users who you choose to follow.

If you want to edit your photo or video within the Instagram app, simply tap the wrench icon and choose a feature from the bottom menu. You can adjust the contrast, warmth, saturation, highlights, shadows, vignette, tilt shift and sharpness. After you’ve applied an optional filter and possibly made some edits, you’ll be take to a tab where you can fill out a caption, tag other users to it, tag it to your personal Instagram Photo Map and simultaneously post it to some of your other social networks. You can configure your Instagram account to have photos posted on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or Flickr. If these sharing configurations are all highlighted, as opposed to remaining gray and inactive, then all of your Instagram photos will automatically be posted to your social networks after you press “Share. Don't worry, Instagram will always take you to the social network configuration page after you snap each and every photo. If you don't want your photo shared on any particular social network, simply tap any one of them so that’s gray and set to off

Instagram is all about visual sharing. Every user profile has a “Followers” and “Following” count, representing how many people they follow and how many other users are follow them. Every user profile has a button you can tap to follow them. If a user has their profile set to private, they will need to approve your request first. Keep in mind that when your profile is created and set to public, anyone can find and view your profile, along with all your photos and videos. Learn how to set yours to private if you only want the followers you approve to be able to see your posts.

In my personal experience, Instagram is a lightweight platform which puts the focus on images and doesn't attempt to be the end-all, be-all social network which (ironically, it's parent) Facebook is. From a professional marketing standpoint, Instagram offers companies in both B2B and B2C realms a unique opportunity to diversify the ways in which prospects, leads, and customers conceptualize their brand.

Class 11, Snapchat as a Collaboration tool.

SnapChat was developed by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, two Stanford University students who were convinced that emoticons were not enough to transmit the emotion that a person might be wishing could be sent with a text message. But they were also nervous that a quick snap of a cellphone camera showing a particular emotion might end up being inappropriate for a social media site where the picture could be posted for all the world to see.

It is simple to use, you take a picture using your

camera phone, select recipients from your contacts, decide how long you want the message to be visible for (up to 10 seconds), and click send. For the recipient, the process is very like getting a text message, simply tap to view a snap. Also, the message disappears from their phone once the time limit has expired, although the details of the sender and the time stamp remain. Users can add friends from their phone/device contact lists in addition users can now add friends who are nearby them, so if users are hanging out in a group, it is now easier for them to connect and become friends.

Snapchat is a fun messaging app for sharing moments. You can take a photo or a video, then add a caption or doodle or lense, and send it to a friend or add it to your story to share with the world/your followers. Friends can view individual snaps for up to 10 seconds, and then it disappears.

SnapChat can be a fun and engaging app when used appropriately. But it should be used carefully and with very specific ground rules or not used at all. Apps like SnapChat remind parents that we need to be vigilant about our children's smartphone use and to monitor their activity to prevent problems like sexting,cyber-stalking  ,cyber- bullying  or other elements of the "dark side" of smartphone use by our children.

Final Project: Historic Boston Reference Materials.

When was the American Revolution? When was the Boston Tea Party? Both of these events and dates must be in your blog, and your reference materials must come from these time periods.

The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.

The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston" was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

What did Boston look like at the time of the American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party? Locate historically accurate maps of Boston from this time. Note that the maps MUST come from credible sources (you can't reply on personal blogs that have this material, for example, nor can you rely on many web sites since most just post collections that they find without actually verifying the authenticity of those materials). Your maps MUST come from credible sources such as museums, libraries, and/or historical societies that address the American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party.

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party


Scale. How large was Boston during this period of time? Search for maps that show the scale of historic Boston, so that you can calculate how large Boston actually was.

http://www.boston-tea-party.org/location.html

GIS data. Read the first few paragraphs of this article for a high-level overview of Geographic information systems (GIS). Search for GIS (Geographic information system) data for Boston at the time of American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party.

Man-made Structures. What were the most important structures in Boston at the time of American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party? Buildings, ships and boats, boat docks, and other man-made (made by humans) items all fall into this category.

Natural Structures. What were the most important natural (not man-made) structures in Boston at the time of American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party? Hills, beaches, islands, oceans, rivers, trees, and animals all other natural (not man-made) items fall into this category.

Class 10: Creating my own Audio Whiteboard

We created our on Audio Whiteboard meeting, and we copy the link and paste it for our classmate to have access to it and we had to give them the permission to start their presentations. we took screenshots of every step we were doing this.