ELab Week 8 - Flickr

Elab Week 8 

In week 8 of our course we had an Elab. This Elab was based around the photo-sharing website "Flickr.com". The first part of the exercise was to create a Yahoo Account. I did not already have one so I went through the sign-up process. The site does not allow you to become a member without a Yahoo account.

The next part of the exercise instructed us to choose some photos from our desktop and upload them to our Flickr page. I chose two photos to upload, and found the process very simple and instructions easy to follow.

We then were instructed to edit the different parts of the pictures such as description, privacy settings, tags and title. After doing so we were brought to our own personal Flickr page which you can customize to suit your style and make it more personal.

Finally here is a link to my page and my photos on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/131451636@N02/

Link to my Google Map - ELab Exercise Week 7

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zQvn4ZqgjJ88.kgp7At_b_gy4

ELab 4 - Week 7

In week 7 we had our last face to face lab in Newstead. This lab was based around the topic of Mash-Ups. The exercise instructed us to use Google Maps to help us to visualize information. We downloaded a number of files from the site http://libguides.ucd.ie/findingmaps/makegooglemap. This gave us a guide to making a map using Google Map products.

Here is a screenshot of the opening page on Google Maps make your own map page. 

The guide gave us detailed instructions on how to create our map using the files for the "Heritage Oak Trees of Ireland". I then added the first layer for my map by importing the first of the excel file the Oak Trees of Ireland. 

The next two screenshots are of the editing process after I added my first layer to my map. I had to select columns to position the placements and also a column to title the markers. Then I edited the map title and description. 

After completing this I was able to view my map markers across Ireland, identifying the Oak trees and giving all the required information about the tree such as place, county, species and height, as conveyed in the screenshot underneath the map. 

The guide then instructed me to add an additional layer using the second excel file "Sacred Trees". I added this and then went through the same editing process as the above in the first layer. The difference with this layer was I needed to change the style to uniform style to match the first layer and for it to appear as markers on the map with the previous layers markers. To differentiate the different layers I edited the marker for the Sacred Trees by changing the color to blue and the icon to a walking man. 

We then learned how to edit different labels according to their "species". I changed one of the species categories, the "Pendulculate Oak", to appear as a yellow star icon on the map.

I then edited the Sacred Oak markers to show the height of the trees in meters along side the icon marker. 

Then I used the ruler tool to measure the distance from the most northern Oak tree to the most southern Oak tree. Which ended up being 254 km. 

Below is the completed map using Google Maps. In class I got to slide 40 of the online guide.