This is one of my favorite places to type into google maps. Why? because that must be i need directions there. I love Wrightsville beach. My Aunt and Uncle first started taking me there with my cousin when I was just a kid. The “B” on the map shows where we’d first enter the island. That is after breakfast at Causeway Cafe. I always get the banana nut bread french toast. MHHMM!! soo good. Then we’d take a right and drive down to that pier. We would stay in a hotel close by. And it’s on of my favorite surf spots! the water is so clear, almost tropical. The waves are much better then Virginia beach. After a long day of surfing, we’d drive back down by the entrance to each at Tower 7. That place is the bomb. It’s a mexican food surf shake restaurant.  They have the most delicious burritos. Perfect for the after ocean starve!

What if Twitter and Facebook were around back in the day of exploration?

You know Lewis and Clark would have taken advantage of that. I mean they traveled away from all their friends. They’d defiantly want to keep in contact. So i made a page for William Clark.  If he was to tweet hears one thing he’d say.

I love traveling. And with a pretty lady! #SorryLewis #Yougotnochance #LouisianaPurchase

— William Clark (@Clarkinit) October 24, 2012

I also made a Facebook account for William Clark. He would be a little offended because they didnt have his birthday date. The earliest was like 1905. Poor Clark. But he can pretend he’s excepted.  Check out His facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004609260755

I think i picked to do William Clark because he traveled. It wasn’t an obvious choice from history so I had to do it. PLus, i love traveling.

The assignment, Google History Maps Story, turned out to be by far one of my favorite assignments! I have no idea why… There wasn’t much to it. I went to Google maps and created my own map of destinations. I was trying to think of a historical/literary figure that traveled a lot. It was then I remembered the book/movie Around the World in 80 Days. I thought this was perfect for the assignments. I couldn’t find a good schedule/remember what happened exactly in each place so I just did the proposed schedule. It was simple to do just finding the places on the map and linking them.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=ll

What They Might Have Done In Social Media

Too bad Facebook was not around for most of history! Use the Fakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool.  See for Abraham Lincoln the example of a fake facebook profile and what he might have tweeted.

Make sure what you create is coherent with the person’s background, and explain what it might have meant for that person to use Facebook and twitter “way back then”. Include screen shots and links to what you created, and elaborate on what their use of social media might have been like if it existed for them.    

This is a 3 star assignment.

I really have enjoyed this assignment.  For this assignment I decided to use the historical figure of Susan B. Anthony.  I choose her because she really fought hard to give woman the right to vote.  To find more information on her I went to wikipedia as well as this biographical website that I used to verify my facts that I found on wikipedia.  I then took screen shots of what I created with Jing.  I believe that if social media was around when Susan B. Anthony was alive she would’ve gotten so many supporters as well as she would’ve been able to get a right to vote so much sooner.  It’s too bad that she died before the 19th amendment was passed that gave women the right to vote.  But if there was social media around in her time there would’ve been a lot more petition and avocation for women’s rights.

Here is a link to Susan B. Anthony’s facebook page that the images below are of.

What They Might Have Done in Social Media

“Use theFakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool. “

Here are the screen shots of Amelia Earhart’s Facebook:

I love the idea of this assignment. Not being a history buff at all I see how using these fake social media sites could make it fun for younger children learning about not so interesting historical figures. I made my site by going to Fakebook.com, and inserting the information I found on this bio site about Amelia Earhart.

It is a bit scary how social media has taken over the world, I can tweet about Barack Obama and have it show up on the nightly news or in a political speech. History is being made on Facebook and Twitter, I wonder if our children will even need history textbooks, or just Twitter archives.

I thought this assignment was going to be very difficult and decided to take it on at the beginning of the week. Like most things about this class, I was wrong. Hackasaurus makes it so simple to do!

I got the inspiration for this ad during a halloween costume search. I came across the cutest dog dressed up in a dinosaur costume and couldn’t stop laughing. It popped back in my head when I saw the website was hackaSAURUS. I decided that was the obvious thing for me to do. I found the two picture of the Boston Terriers using google images and just changed some of the information on a Craigslist ad.

Craigslist Ad—–WORKING WEBPAGE

I love the idea of looking back in time and seeing how things have progressed (or turned for the worst). The assignment Way Back in Time embraces this idea with the web. I decided to use the Mary Washington homepage website. I am quite a legacy at this school. My mother, grandma, aunt, many cousins, and close family friends have all attended this University. Some even attended with the school was all girls or called Mary Washington College.

Using the Way Back in Time Machine website I collected many screen shots of how the webpage has progressed through the years starting in 2004. It has changed many times since then. It even changed from 2011 to this year! I also noticed very small changes in design. In 2008 I took two screen shots because the Centennial celebration logo changed within a few months.

I think the biggest change was in the design. It started off very simple, not giving many links or options and then developed into a lot for a webpage. I love all of the options it gives now, but at some point it can get overwhelming. The colors of the page also started off as just white and blue, then developed into adding yellow and different shades of blue, then back to blue and white, and this year it has more of a grey and white theme.

I believe the website has changed for the better, however if too many more things are added it could be for the worst. It started off simple (probably a bit harder to find things) and developed into having more options on the front page. This probably developed due to the increasing student population. More students means more activities and things going on that people want information on. These days, the first place people go to get information is the internet. A working simple to use website is key for a University. UMW has done a great job with modifying the webpage to embrace the changing times.

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