Timeline+GLOGSTER+activity

===**In PART TWO of this activity we will be using a new, "free" online poster creator called [|GLOGSTER]. ** ===

You should have the dates recorded and put in chronological order from yesterday's assignment...

===**Follow the directions in order to complete the activity! ** ===

1) Register for the website [|GLOGSTER] - click on the RED REGISTER link on the left hand of the screen.

2) WRITE DOWN YOUR USER NAME AND PASSWORD!

3) Once logged in scroll down your personal page to CREATE YOUR FIRST GLOG. Click on that box. Now you are ready to create. Keep this window open.

4) Now open a new window or an additional tab to continue reading directions & look for images.

5) Your glog (poster) that you create will be based from the information found on yesterdays handout.
 * LOOK AT YOUR 40 DATES/EVENTS FROM YESTERDAYS ACTIVITY
 * READ THROUGH THE SHEET - THINK - SELECT WHAT YOU FEEL ARE THE __10 MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF CHINA__
 * HIGHLIGHT/UNDERLINE OR STAR THESE EVENTS ON YOUR SHEET

6) Your task is to create a visual representation of these events in Chinese history on your GLOG.

7) Now back to [|GLOGSTER] Time to start creating your poster. FIRST choose a wall picture. You may choose a pattern from website, or you can download your own from the internet.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">8) Find an image for each of the 10 events you selected from yesterdays assignment. YOU NEED 10 PICTURES TOTAL!

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">9) On the image link on glogster, add and place your images around the page __IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER__. You can copy from your desktop - or you can add using "image location" or "image url" simliar to what you have done with other projects for this class.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">10) Along with each picture you need to place a small text box next to each describing what your picture represents. This should what was written on your class handout yesterday. You DO NOT need to write anything more what was on the sheet! YOU WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF 10 PICTURES & 10 BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px;"> *** IF YOU ARE ABLE TO ADD VIDEO OR MUSIC TO YOUR GLOG YOU WILL RECEIVE BONUS POINTS** *

11) At the end of class you must save your GLOG.
 * Click SAVE or PUBLISH
 * Name or title your GLOG
 * In the lower right hand corner of the box that appears click on the button that says UNFINISHED & click SAVE
 * In the new window that appears - click on RETURN TO DASHBOARD.

= = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** POSTING YOUR GLOG TO THE WIKI ** = = 1) FINISH, PUBLISH & TITLE YOUR GLOG = = 2) Keep Glog PRIVATE = = 3) When your Glog is complete, click and copy the EMBED code from Glogster for your project = = 4) Go to your class hour & your name on the class wikipage - (you must be logged in & a member of this wikipage) = = 5) On your page click "edit" = = 6) On the toolbar that appears click "Widget" (it is on the middle of the toolbar and looks like a little TV) = = 7) Click on the word "Other" at the bottom of the screen = = 8) Paste in the box the EMBED code that you took from Glogster = = 9) N ow hit SAVE -- a grey box should appear on your page = = 10) Check your page to see if your Glog was successfully saved. = = 11) Congrats you are finished! =

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST BE POSTED 730AM, Tuesday, Feb 15th =