Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Homework 6 for CS180

Homework 6 for CS180
Blogging and RSS with info about Virtual Reality
Due: Tuesday March 11 at 10am

Goals
  • Find this blog
  • Write an essay on Virtual Reality
  • Create a blog on blogger.com with your essay
  • Post a comment to THIS blog with the URL to access your blog of your essay
  • Subscribe to this blog using Google or Yahoo

Log in or Set up a Blogger.com Account

  1. Go to Blogger.com
  2. Sign in with your Google account or set up a new account.
  3. It steps you through setting up an account, the URL name, log-in name (remember this!)
  4. Choose a template
  5. Click on "Start Blogging!"
  6. Enter title: CS180 HW 6
  7. Enter text: essay for Virtual Reality
  8. Click on Publish Post
  9. Click on "View Blog" (or "in a new window") to see your post!
    Post Comment on CS180 blog
  10. Open a new tab/window in your browser
  11. Go to http://cs117.blogspot.com
  12. Under the blog about Homework 6, click on the "Comments"
  13. Enter a comment which is the URL to your blog AND YOUR RamCT Login Name for grading
  14. Click on "Publish your comment"
Note that you can change the design, layout and lots of things on blogger.com.
Feel free to have fun so long as it is easy for me to find your essay.

For subscribing to Yahoo or Google, you will need to demo this to me during lab.

Specifications for Virtual Reality essay:
  • 1000 words
    • number of words does not include writing of the title
    • number of words does not include references or your name
  • Choose one topic from the following list
    • "What are the drawbacks to using virtual reality for teaching physics"
    • "Explore 3 examples of using virtual reality in Internet search (information retrieval)"
    • "How is virtual reality used for therapy for people with physical disabilities"
  • Proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, paragraphs, etc.
  • Cite 2-4 references (list the URL or full citations for books)

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