Class 12, IMMERSION 2015 Outreach (Facebook and Google+)

For this assignment, I had to share one post from Immersion Facebook page with my Facebook groups and Google+ communities. It was much easier than the previous one since I just had to copy and past the link to Google+ instead of recreating the whole post. 

This is me sharing with Facebook groups

This is me sharing link with Google+ communities.

Class 12, IMMERSION 2015 Outreach (Facebook and Google+)

For this assignment, I shared "building virtual reality headset" post with each of my Facebook groups and recreated the same post in Google+ and also shared with each of Google+ communities.

This is me sharing in Facebook

This is me recreating the post and sharing in Google+

Class 12: Google Drive folders

I am creating my first Google Drive folder called IMMERSION 2015 Outreach

Uploading proper images and websites related to IMMERSION 2015

Adding every classmates's email address to share with them. They can only view my items. 

Class 12: What is Google Drive?

Google Drive is a free service provided from Google that allows the users to store various kinds of files online. Users can access the files anywhere using the cloud and Internet connection. Google Drive also gives the users access to free web-based applications for creating documents, spreadsheets, and more.

Google Drive is among one of the most popular cloud storage services available these days. Google Drive offers 15GB of free storage space. Since files stored on the cloud is easily accessible from any computer that has Internet connection, Drive simply eliminated the need to email or save them in a USB drive. One another advantage the users get from saving files online is that the Drive has sharing feature with others, which can make cooperative work so much easier. Of course, the user can set the limitation for others when the files are shared allowing them to only view the materials and not able to edit.

Google Drive has similar features to Microsoft Office. Important apps in Google Doc are first documents, spreadsheets, presentation, forms and drawings. Documents are for composing letters and essays, while spreadsheets are for storing and organizing information.

By default, Google Drive will choose the most common file format whenever you downloaded a file. For instance, if you download a Google Document, it will automatically be saved as a .docx file, which is used by Microsoft and most other word processors. However, there may be times when you want to choose a different format such as PDF.

Final Project: My First Old Boston Building

For this assignment, I looked up old houses in Boston back then and tried to find out its coordinates within my Minecraft map. Replicating the houses did not seem much challenging but taking its location into account did take a little time to finish. The map itself also needed some adjustments as I explored in Minecraft because the level of water and my terrain did not go well together. However, it was unique experience to revive old Boston and build one of the historical structures in virtual world. 

I looked up old structures in Boston

Looked up street bricks to decide which layer I should use

First exploring my map to see where I should build

Building the entrance of my structure

Interior design had to be on my own since I could not see the actual picture

First good look at my finished entrance side of my building

Top view of my structure

Working on the roof

Toward the end of my project I could see the beautiful scenery of my Old Boston

Final project: My 4 hours with World Painter

For this assignment, I first had to actually learn how to utilize World Painter by watching YouTube videos and searching Google. As I started to learn how to use World Painter, I started with putting the actual map behind my World Painter map so that I can just overwrite the terrain more easily. The maps that we put together really helped in drawing outline of Old Boston.

This is the actual map that I found online that I put behind my World Painter.

I had to adjust x and y coordinates and transparency to fit my land and overwrite.

Shaping the general outline of Old Boston 1775

YouTube tutorial videos that I watched

These are the maps we put together which helped building Old Boston

Pretty much done with building Old Boston adding forest area and hills along with Mixed Sand road