Top Five Blogs Homework

grantland.com 

Grantland is a sports blog that was started by Bill Simmons who is now a commentator on ESPN. They post a wide variety of articles that touch on all levels of athletics. 

barstoolsports.com

Barstool Sports is both a sports blog and a media blog. They post many articles on sports but they also post about a lot of other things like news about celebrities, new music, funny videos, and podcasts. 

Propertyofzack.com

Property of Zack is a music blog started by Zack Zarillo. It covers many bands but focuses on alternative, indie, and punk rock. They write reviews on albums, tour dates, and also update readers on band drama. 

Stereogum.com

Stereogum is another music blog that deals with much more mainstream music than propertyofzack. It has articles about all types of music from indie rock to hip hop. Other than news, it has links to the newest releases of music. 

http://www.musicboxpete.com/

Music Box Pete is another music blog that reviews mainly Boston based bands. It reviews albums of both mainstream artists and small independent artists.He also includes a weekly Artist Spotlight Feature which is a way for emerging artist to gain some listeners. 

Audio Post

This is a song called Sweet Resistance off of Transit’s newest album titled Joyride. I was unable to find a way to post an audio file to my blog so instead I just posted the youtube video of the same song. 

Tumblr vs Blogger vs Tumblr

Of these three blogging websites, Blogger was definitely the most difficult to use. Tumblr and Weebly are both very user friendly and Blogger seems to be the odd man out. For personal blogging and for following blogs, I would say that tumblr is by far the best option. If I was creating a blog for a wide range of readers I believe Weebly is the best option. Weebly seems like the most professional site for a blog. Overall I liked both Weebly and Tumblr but for different reasons. I don’t think I would ever use Blogger for anything else. 

Comparing Tumblr & Blogger

In my opinion Tumblr is much easier to use. The layout of the website is much more user friendly than Blogger. Also, the actual blog pages look much cleaner than Blogger. Though I may be biased because I have used Tumblr before and have little experience with the Blogger website. I liked the pre-made themes that are available on Tumblr over the themes in Blogger. I also like the ability to choose the type of post that the user can create. On Blogger there is only one main type of post but you can do more if you know html coding. 

Quote

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

-Abraham Lincoln 

Tumblr Blogs I follow

http://propertyofzack.tumblr.com/

This blog keeps me up to date on the music scene. They post articles about tours, new albums, and more. They post mostly about alternative rock bands but also cover a wide variety of music genres. 

http://runforcoverrecords.tumblr.com/

Run For Cover is a record label that has signed many bands that I listen to. They are Boston based and mainly sign indie rock influenced bands, They post videos, tour updates, and news about upcoming albums. 

Video Blog

This is a video I took from the first time I went to a game at Fenway Park. I was lucky enough to get David Ortiz’s home run on camera.

Link to my Google Plus

https://plus.google.com/u/1/116890050518948243843/posts

Photo Blog

These are pictures of my dog Fenway! He’s a friendly dog who loves spending time at the beach and even more time sleeping on the sofa. 

First Blog Post for Web 2.0

I have created this Blogger account to be used for my immersive online class in the Boston College Woods School of Education. I have used Blogger before for another online class. Blogger is fairly simple and is pretty cool because everyones page can look different then the next. There are a lot of aspects of the page theme that can be edited and if you know how to use html codes then even more is possible. 

Final #6 -Deconstructed

Deconstructing my virtual library 

This is me deconstructing my Meshmoon Library made from PDF and Youtube Videos regarding immersive education . It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Final #6 - Build your immersive library/museum

Finished World 

 Here you can see three "other" articles relating to class.

 PDF

 Here is a look into the center of most of the post.

 Two of the iED videos that are posted.

 The three other videos in the world. 

 Another PDF

 Two more PDFs

This is my Meshmoon Library made from PDF and Youtube Videos regarding immersive education . It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Final #1- Scratch Work

Here is a link to the work I did in Scratch

http://scratch.mit.edu/users/eddieodio/

FINAL PROJECT: TESTING MY FELLOW CLASSMATES' IMMERSIVE LIBRARIES.

In this picture I am seen roaming through Riodan's 3D World.

 Here I am exploring Evan's 3D World.

 Here I am exploring Cristina's 3D world. 

The Education Bridge

The Education Grid

This is the front page for The Education Bridge which includes links to the iED home page, a link to contact the group director and also includes the user agreement.

 This is the top of the about page and shows a little bit of the history of the Education Grid.

 Here is some more info about the program's history and the legal liability. 

 This part of the site explains how the program is royalty free, open sourced and openly distributable. 

FINAL 5c: MY CUSTOMIZED JAVA GAME

Final Product

Direct Link:

http://www.greenfoot.org/scenarios/11951

This is the final running Java program of the Greenfoot environment in which i created the above program where Immersive Education Logo move around eating lettuce and My Image do the same eating turtles. It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc  

Progress Screenshots:

FINAL 5b: Greenfoot Lettuce and Snake

Final Product 

Direct Link:

http://www.greenfoot.org/scenarios/11950

This is the final running Java program of the Greenfoot environment in which I created the above program where turtles move around eating lettuce and snakes do the same eating turtles. It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc  

Progress Screenshots

FINAL 5a: Greenfoot JoC #4 Finally some code!

Final Production

This is the final running Java program of the turtle moving in a large circle around the environment in the Greenfoot programming tutorial. It is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Progress Screenshots

WebGL Chrome Experiments the FAIL IN FIREFOX

3D Experiments that passed in Firefox:

• 3D Tetris 
• SWOOP
• Snowbox
• Valley of Uncanny
• 4irpucks
• Xibalba
• JsOrrery
• Push to Break 

3D Experiments that Failed in Firefox:

• Car Visualizer Classics 

WebGL Chrome Experiments using Google's Chrome Browser

The first project that I experienced was Spacerun 3D. This was a racing game that has two different maps to choose from and allows you to play in both a normal mode or with 3D glasses. The game was pretty hard and very difficult not to run into the walls. http://www.yorgsite.fr/games/spacerun3d/

Main Menu

Space Station Map

 

 Cracra Beach Map

Cracra Beach Map in 3D Mode

The next experience I chose to play was Dino Hunt. In this game you hunt dinosaurs in a virtual world. The game isn't very polished and had a difficult time getting passed level 1. http://dinohunt.ivank.net/

Main Menu

 After getting eaten by a Raptor 

The last experience that I tested out was another racing game called HexGL by BKcore. This was better than Spacerun but still not great. Handling was rigid and difficult. http://dinohunt.ivank.net/

Main Menu

 Starting the Race

Midrace