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Goodbye!

Thank you to everyone for all your help & support through this class. Everyone working through it together made for a great experience! Take care everyone :)

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Class 14, Homework 2: What is Dropbox?

 I like to think of Dropbox as an online filing cabinet. With it, you are able to collect and share files across many mediums, including Google and  Microsoft office tools. Dropbox makes it simple for you to organize files for teams, group and other collaborative environments. 

There are free versions, as well as paid versions of dropbox, all with different pricing options.  Dropbox Plus is 9.99 per month and includes features that allow you to store as many items as you want and access them across as many devices as you want. Dropbox Professional costs 16.58 per month and includes everything Dropbox Plus offers in addition to different types of file-recovery, offline access to files, multiple search options and more!

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Class 14, Homework 1: My Google Drive folder

creating a folder in my google drive!

adding a picture from my experimentation with scratch!!

communicating with the class in slack!

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Class 13, Homework 5:  My Team's Facebook Groups

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Class 13, Homework 4:  Searching Slack

For this assignment, I used both the website and the app to explore slack’s search feature. The tool allows you to search your own slack conversations by using key phrases. To try it out I used collaborative computing and was directed to some of my classmate's posts. This is an interesting feature that I imagine is useful for looking up things sent from coworkers and so on.

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Class 13, Homework 3:  Google Scholar "Custom range…" + Slack Channels

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Class 13, Homework 2:  Dropping Office Files into Slack

For this assignment, I uploaded all the assignments into our class slack group. It was very simple, perfect for an easy, work-place sharing tool!

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Class 13, Homework 1: Turning Microsoft Office documents into Google files

For this assignment, I converted a Word doc, Powerpoint & excel sheet into a google doc, slides doc, and google sheets.

Excel: Before 

Changing settings so I can convert from excel to sheets

After: Google Sheets

Before: Powerpoint

Changing settings in my drive

After: PowerPoint converted to google slide.

Before: Word Doc.

After: Google Doc

I chose to drag and upload my document into my google drive in order to convert it to a google doc.

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Class 12, Homework 4: HTML Fundamentals

For this assignment, we used brackets to begin writing code. This was all pretty new to me, so I found it very interesting and the videos to be very helpful.

Still working on images

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Class 12, Homework 3: Getting Started with HTML Code

Testing out the brackets software!

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Class 12, Homework 2: Collaborative Coding with Scratch

Original: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/347988422

Mine: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/350087646/

Original:https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/348095367

Mine:https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/350091101/

Original:https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/348017424

Mine:https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/350089488/

The images reflect the steps I took to change the images in the preexisting scratch presentations. In many, I chose to change to directions in which objects move and when, and in some, I chose the color of many of the objects. In the flag, I chose to change the color to red in only two of them, so it would look as if the flag was changing colors. 

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Class 12, Homework 1: Effective Teams

In the Harvard Business Review article, “Teams Who Share Personal Stories Are More Effective” written by Francesca Gino, teams and how they can work most effectively are discussed. One aspect that is highlighted in the article that I had not considered was how personal insecurities may affect group dynamics. The article suggests that when put into groups, participants initially can be more concerned with fitting in than they are contributing. “Research has shown that teams are biased toward repeating information rather than adding new information to the discussion.” This is due to people wanting the members of their team to agree with them and like them. 

In order to combat this, team members were encouraged to share details about their individual backgrounds and perspectives prior to beginning any tasks. Doing this made participants feel more comfortable in the new environment and able to offer more ideas. There were other studies done where team members had personal references about times where they were able to contribute positively to others. Having these referrals also helped the team performance because team members had an idea of how others could positively impact the group.

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Class 12: Getting into Slack

Exploring slack during class. Chatting with everyone about slack & the upcoming holidays!

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Class 11, Homework 5B: My own Prezi presentation

This is my Google Hangout Report presentation that I created using Prezi.

https://prezi.com/view/Q2Kykrd5LGjPTGstUlGy/

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Class 11, Homework 5A: My Favorite 3 Prezi presentations

These are my three favorite presentations on Prezi

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Class 11, Homework 4: Google Documents as HTML files.

For this assignment, we began with downloading a google document as an HTML page, therefore allowing you to open a google doc without using google docs. Once downloaded, I moved the file to a new location, compressed it, and was able to open the file in a webpage, as seen below.

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Class 11, Homework 3: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the foundation of the internet. The ability computers have to communicate across networks, formats, and devices are all thanks to HTML. It allows you to create and use hyperlinks, and despite there being several versions of HTML, all modern browsers support them. Anything with the ability to connect to the internet also has the ability to read HTML.

HTML is was originally based on SGML or standard generalized markup language. The most recent version of HTML is no longer based off of the original. The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, decided they wanted to stop creating new versions of HTML. Mozilla, on the other hand, disagreed and created a new group, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Group and they began working on HTML5. Overtime W3C decided to join them, and they combined efforts on a new design for HTML5.

The code make up itself is made up of angle brackets and other common symbols combined with different letters and attribute to format things however you want. For example, if you are trying to begin a paragraph, you can put <p>, and the computer will know that is the beginning of a paragraph. To designate the language you want to use, you would put lang=”en> after the paragraph symbols. You could use that code on every paragraph, or you would be able to use another code to format the entire page in English.