Jun Ki Hong

Assignment 2-4 Hardware system review

The hardware I would like to review is 'MacBook Pro Retina Display'. First, there are two display categories; 13inches and 15inches. For 13inches, the price ranges from $1299 to $1799 according to the specification such as hard drive size and processor. For 15inches, the price ranges from $1999 to $2499, also according to the specs of hard drive size and processor.

This is a laptop, and you can use it to watch videos, work on word processors, edit photos, edit videos, talk to friend using sns, email, watch TV, listen to music, take pictures or videos, communicate with anyone through messenger softwares, and explore internet through 'safari' or chrome, if you wish. It performs anything other laptops perform.

One of this product's competitive products is 'Samsung ATIV Book 9'. Its price ranges from $1199 to $1799 according to its display sizes, and specifications. Another competitive product is 'Toshiba KIRA book 13'. Its price ranges from $1349 to $1699 according to different specifications.

I have used laptops from Apple, Samsung, LG, Toshiba, and HP. They are all good companies that make good laptops. However, each company specialises in its products. I had no complaints using all of them except HP's laptop. Among these brands, however, I like Apple the best. First, design wise, Macbook is definitely the best among all laptops selling today in the market. It is simple, light, slim, sleek, and pretty. Also, although its processor may not have as high spec as other laptops, but if you use it you certainly have no complaints because you can't tell the difference since Macbook is already using a good processor. Moreoever, its inner system, "IOS" is more user friendly and prettier than "Windows". Lastly, MacBook is the best when editing videos or photos.

Assignment 2-2 (2) KOAA

This article introduces what the Immersive Education Club is up to now. It states that the club is composed of roughly 20 highschool and college students, and they meet once a week to construct a virtual world, specifically 'Bent's Fort'. The article shows how excited the people around this project are, thinking about anyone being able to access a historic site from anywhere on the planet.

The article also states that for now, the team is at its beginning stage, where they are learning to construct virtual sites using 'Mine craft'. Then, gradually, they will move onto use more advanced software.

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Assignment 2-2 (1) Denver

This article explains that the Immersive Education Initiative will reconstruct the famous 'Bent's Old Fort' virtually and bring it to the 'Minecraft', the virtual video game. Once reconstructed virtually by students in Colorado, it will be released to the schools and the public at no charge for a learning material.

Bent's Old Fort is a construction at the old Santa Fe Trail, which is in Colorado. According to article, this place is one of the top lists for tourists in Colorado as it is a historical fort.

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Assignment2-1: What is immersive education?

Here, Professor Walsh is briefly introducing himself, and that he has been teaching immersive education since 1997. He then explains what an immersive education initiative is, which is using technology for education.

Here, Professor Walsh further explains what immersive education is. Then, he briefly gives a few examples of immersive education such as virtual worlds, learning games, simulations, and FAM. Then, it is followed by the details of the virtual world technology.

Here, the professor explains the structure of the education. It is divided into three levels. The first level is very basic, and fast learning process to learn how to use certain forms of immersive education. Level 2 is further learning from the fundamentals, and the third level is to be able to do anything needed in immersive education.

In this part, the professor explains the commercial video game, "mine craft". This is to promote the stealth learning, in which the students do not realise that they are learning logics and mathematics, but instead they think they are having fun. Then it goes to introduce the 3d printing, which the content in virtual world would be able to be printed in 3d world.

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