Final Project: My First Old Boston Building

I decided to build the Old State House. I started off by using Ryan's geographical map of Boston. I was able to open it in World Painter then save it over to Mine craft.I made the front of the old state house first. It was hard to make the big clock on top or the two animals because minecraft is all cubes. I then made the sides and tried to scale the windows as best as I could. I built the bell tower which I think came out pretty well. I was unable to make the dome though.

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal athttp://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Final project: My 4 hours with World Painter

adding in a pond and the bordering ocean to boston's harbor

tried to the best of my abilities to draw out the road structure of the map I used for reference. I know I probably missed a few. Also I flattened out a lot of the land so I would be able to make the roads.

On the map I noticed that some parts of Boston had some vegetation so I added in a forest and some plants. Also in the top right corner I noticed that the Charles river had a dam which lead into Mills pond so I Started to draw that in.

I added in some more naturalistic traits to the geography using the world painter tools. It is kind of hard to see it in this picture though.

This is some of the vegetation I added to the Minecraft world.

Part of the Boston Harbor that I built. I flooded a good bit of the land to make this.

This is just a screenshot of the land that I made flat. All of this was originally mountainous with a lot of trees and vegetation.

Another aerial view of the vegetation and water I added to the world.

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal athttp://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Immersion 2015 event

sharing the event with each one of my facebook groups and letting them know that anyone who wants to join is free to.

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal athttp://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Final Project: Historic Boston Reference Materials

The American Revolution took place between 1765 and 1783. The Revolution was a rebellion by the thirteen American colonies against the British Monarchy. The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Mass on December 16, 1773. The protest was against the Tea Act which was an attempt by the British East India Company to purchase Company tea on which the Townshend duties were paid.

Boston in 1765 was a much smaller city than it is today. There were only 1,676 houses during this time. Those houses held 2,069 families. The total population of Boston at that time was only 15,520 people. As you can imagine these were mostly white people. To be exact out of the 15,520 people living there 14,672 of them were white. The town had far more women than men in it because of all the losses at war and at sea. Though Boston was a small town at this time it was still the third largest metropolitan area on the east coast. In 1775 the British government stationed 4,000 soldiers in Boston. The ratio was more than one soldier for every military aged male. This earned Boston the nickname of the “garrison town”.

Old State House

The Old State House was constructed in 1713 and it was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1793. It was here that the Declaration of Independence was written and announced to the towns people. More notable though it was right outside this building’s steps where the Boston Massacre occurred. 5 people were killed and six others were injured. Almost every depiction of the Boston Massacre has the Old State House featured prominently in the background.

References

loc.gov

nps.gov

http://www.ushistory.org/

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal athttp://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Minecraft Competition Facebook and Google+

found the face book post

shared the facebook posts with each one of my facebook groups. I also added in the text description to each post.

shared the photo with each one of my google+ communities

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal athttp://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Immersion 2015 outreach (Facebook and Google+)

found the Facebook post

shared it with the virtual world of gaming

shared it with the cross platform augmented reality virtual worlds

shared it with the virtual worlds association

shared it with the collaborative computing group

shared the video of google + with the augmented reality developers

shared the video with the virtual reality group

Shared the video with the 3d printing group

shared the video with the second life and other virtual worlds group

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal athttp://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc

Class 10, Facebook events as an "opt-in" form of collaboration

I joined the event.

shared the event with the virtual world of gaming

shared the event with the cross platform augmented reality virtual worlds

shared the group with the virtual worlds association

shared the event with the collaborative computing group

This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc