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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

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.

Monday, November 9, 2015

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.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

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.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

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.