Class 9: Assignment 1 IMMERSION 2015 Outreach

Below are the screenshots of myself sharing the facebook post (youtube video) to the groups that I have recently joined in Facebook and Google Plus

Posting in 3D Printing group in Facebook

Posting in Virtual Reality group in Facebook

Posting in Neurogaming group in Facebook

Posting in HoloLens Developers group in Facebook

Posting in Virtual Reality group in Google Plus

Posting in Wearable Technology group in Google Plus

Posting in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality group in Google Plus

Class 9: My Own Prezi Presentation

http://prezi.com/vhs9flufftyo/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Above is the link to my Prezi Presentation.

starting to construct the basic outline for the presentation

starting to create a new prezi

Image enhancing functions in Prezi: useful when more visual effects are needed

inserting images and basic outlines for the presentation

getting the sharing link for my Prezi presentation

Class 9: Collaborative Web Pages with TogetherJS

Class 9: Collaborative Web Pages with TogetherJS (by Mozilla)

TogetherJS is a free, open source Java library run by Mozilla, which adds collaboration features and tools to many websites. Adding this application, TogetherJS, to one's website can help users collaborate on a website in real time. Since this TogetherJS application is developed in JavaScript, there is one huge advantage. No software or plugins require to be installed for the operation of TogetherJS. Also, it is existing web pages-friendly. The company, Mozilla, which is known for creating the web browser Firefox, ensures the users of potential computer threats.

Explanation of TogetherJS

Discovering how this application works

List of sample collaboration applications using TogetherJS

Getting started on the collaborative effort of using grocery to do list

Collaboratively created groceries to-do list

Collaboratively playing a game of madlibs-1

Collaboratively playing a game of madlibs-2

The best application I used: the Youtube video sharing application

Collaboratively uploading links and sharing videos through TogetherJS

Class 9: Google Docs HTML Files

https://wfs.bc.edu/leeaga/ReportonWearableDevices.html?ticket=t_MpTALQfI

Above is the link to my public access file for one of my Immersion 2015 reports, uploaded on BC Myfiles.

During this assignment, I initially downloaded one of my Immersion 2015 Google Docs reports to my computer as a web page. Then, I proceeded to extracting the compressed file. Once I decompressed the original file, I then uploaded this HTML file to BC Myfiles service. Then, I followed the directions on the lecture notes to create a public link for this HTML file that was just uploaded on the Myfiles server.

Class 9: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

HTML is the language of the web for different components to communicate; it is often referred as the tongue of the web. The acronym HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. Hypertext refers to the ability to create links to other pages and resources; markups are used for creating of formatted text along with images and other resources embedded in the page. It essentially is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements, which consists of tags enclosed in brackets, such as <html>. HTML was based on SGML. Nowadays, recent versions of the HTML are not related nor based upon SGML, the Standardized General Markup Language. Tim Burners Lee created the HTML in the early 1990s.

Web browsers, such as the Internet Explorer, has the ability to read HTML files and create them into visible and/or audible web pages. Although the browsers do not display the HTML tags and scripts, they do use them to translate the contents of the web page. In a nutshell, HTML describes the structure of a website semantically, along with guidance for presentation, branding itself a markup language, rather than simple languages used for the purposes of programming.

The elements of HTML form the very basic building blocks of all the websites we see. HTML allows images and objects to be embedded, such as this video, and can be used to create and develop more sophisticated interactive forms. HTML is responsible for the provision of the mean to create structured documents by denoting structural "semantics" for text such as paragraphs, links, quotes and many more items. HTML can also embed scripts written in different languages, such as Java, which can alter the behaviors of HTML web pages. Web browsers also can be referred to Cascading Style Sheets, for the purpose of defining the look and layout of the texts and other visible/audible components.

Class 9: My Favorite 3 Prezi Presentations

Presentation 1: Prezi presentation by Small Business Saturday, a small company from UK

Presentation 2: Prezi presentation for Customer Success as your revenue growth engine

Presentation 3: Prezi presentation on how to use Prezi to boost sales across the country

Reflecting on Tonight

Playing Minecraft as a part of tonight's class was very interesting, since today was my first collaborative Minecraft game play experience. Although the word "collaboration" sounds often easy and somewhat mundane to an extent, collaboration is a hard goal to achieve in these games. Classmates had small difficulties in coordinating with other classmates to build different components of the big constructions; some people were simply destroying things, while some people kept on building. Some novice mistakes, such as inconsistencies in building blocks, were also easy to spot. Yet, after tonight's class and the Minecraft experience, I have realized that when communication channel is well established, meaning that if communication channels are easily accessible during the game play, collaborative efforts can be highly efficient and expedient.