I’m gonna admit, I used a friends pinterest account to gain access to their website. This is because I’m tired of creating all these darn accounts and trying to keep up with them. I’m a simple person, and I guess this can be conveyed into my dream room. I screen shot each image I found on pinterest as well as embeded the link to the website with the photo.

Of course I’d want a hammock bed in my room. Those things are soooo comfortable.

Throw in some candles and fun lanterns

And some wide open windows. That’s all I need.

The three and a half star assignment Personal Search Engine wasn’t too hard to complete.

I used X-Ray Goggles to alter a preexisting search engine.

https://thimbleprojects.org/manzelmo/54873/

The google search page was edited to resemble my product seen above.

I played with the page until it was pretty bare, and I added a couple icons. In reality the icons represent nothing. I just threw them there for scenery. When clicked on, they don’t actually link to anything. All of the other buttons should be functional and self explanatory.

I changed the Google image to Frequently Asked Questions because Google has transformed from a search engine where relevant links pop up in response to queries to an engine that can almost certainly answer questions you type into it.

For this assigment worth 4 stars, we were supposed to create our dream room from pinterest pictures. I chose to do this of Harry from Harry Potter’s dream room, because I took it upon myself to do an entirely Harry Potter themed Web assignments week, and I had a lot of fun with it.

This took me about fifteen minutes to do, because I have my own pinterest account and know how to work it well, and know the Harry Potter books really well so I thought I’d know what Harry would like.

Here are the pictures of the things that Harry would like in his dream room!

Harry’s cage for his pet owl, Hedwig:

Harry’s Comforter (red for his Gryffindor color):

An old-fashioned dresser:

A cozy bookshelf right next to Harry’s bed:

and lastly… a photograph wall where he’d put all his memories:

I’m applying the four and a half star assignment How It All Began to this webpage. It directs us to detail the conglomeration of a group.

I’ve chosen to describe how the Andean Volcanic Belt, which is composed of the Northern Volcanic Zone, Central Volcanic Zone, and Southern Volcanic Zone, came together.

During the Cambrian Period the Nazca plate started to subduct beneath western South America. This resulted in a continental arc environment known as the Andes Mountains. The Nazca plate’s subduction beneath South America has given birth to three volcanic belts: the Northern, Central, and Southern Volcanic Zones.

The formation of these zones began during the collision of two lithospheric plates. The denser plate, which was the Nazca plate, subducted below the less dense plate. While subducting, the denser plate, which is seafloor, dehydrates over a range of depths up to around 100km releasing aqueous fluids. These fluids are large ion lithophile rich and flow into the overlying mantle wedge, enriching it. Pargasitic amphibole is considered to be the central storage site for water in the hydrated mantle wedge. This mantle wedge is dragged down by the subducting slab where it eventually encounters isotherms which heat it. Being heated, the mantle becomes magma due a depressed melting point derived from hydration. The magma flows upwards becoming more buoyant as crystals fractionate out and decompression melting occurs, furthering its melt content. The extrusion of this magma at the surface of the earth rapidly cools the molten rock. Over time this repeated process created the Andes Mountains.

Part of a test I had a couple weeks ago dealt with continental arc formation. When I read this assignment, the first group to come to mind was the Andes Mountains.

I completed the four star assignment Harness Relationships: Make a Map with Kumu. 

The assignment asks us to organize information into a web map. I chose to organize the lifecycle of rocks into a web map.

In this assignment I organized existing information about the relationship between rocks and their environment to create a map.

I chose to base my map around the rock lifecycle because my major is geology. This cycle can be complex with regard to all of the thermodynamic, applied stress and chemical reactions, etc. But all of those reactions can be represented by such a simple two dimensional web map.