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. 

Class 10: Testing the Immersive Education Audio Whiteboard with my Mobile Device.

                                                                                                           

These are the screenshots that i took from my phone, I'm using an Iphone5S. We had to log on our phone to use  the white board in class. As you can see i was able to use the text chat and the voice chat as needed. 

Class 9, Collaborative Web Pages with TogetherJS.

The first picture is the home page of TogetherJS.

This picture is from the website TogetherJS, i was trying to explore the app, Mad Libs.

 .This is another picture from the website TogetherJS . Drawing app.

The last picture is the YouTube Together app from the website TogetherJS.

Class 9: My Favorite 3 Prezi Presentations.

Class 9: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)


HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is a document format that structures text and data on the Internet using elements. It is the most common language used for creating standard web pages. HTML elements are formed by tags, which, in a basic sense, are made up of a single word (or letter) enclosed by a lesser-than sign and a greater-than sign - respectively from left-to-right. For example: <body> the body tag signifies the start of the content you want to display on a client's browser. To signify the end of an element, use an ending tag, which is just like a normal tag with a forward-slash before the tag name: </body> All but few elements must be closed in HTML.

Besides creating complete web pages, you may also use HTML code fragments to create specific elements within an existing page. For example, some blogs and discussion boards allow you to include HTML formatting in your posts or comments, enabling you to add emphasis to key words, embed links, create bullet-ed lists, or use whichever other HTML elements are permitted by the website's administrators. If you are a content contributor for your organization's website, the website designer may have set up a content management system that lets you add articles or page sections within a larger, existing HTML page structure that controls page layout and site navigation.

HTML is also used as the document format of offline (stored on your computer) help and documentation bundled with the applications installed on your computer. When you activate an application's help, typically via its "Help" menu or a question mark icon, the help content may appear within your web browser or a specialized help viewer. Email also uses HTML as the format of rich text messages that include links, stylized text, tables, and other elements that cannot be represented in plain text. However, most email applications do not allow you to edit the HTML directly, instead providing you with tools to create elements and generating the corresponding HTML internally.

Class 9 Google Doc converted to HTML format

This picture is downloaded as html file. First i had to download the document from google doc in the HTML format and i had to download the 7-zip file and unzip the document to.