Day+Three+Expectations+Calendaring+and+Mapping+Europe+or+Latin+America+Trip

NAMES_________________Per____ OUR VIRTUAL ADVENTURE!

**MAKING THE CALENDAR AND MAP**
DAY THREE- Remember, in addition to the final website, you are graded daily for your participation and effort. Most of this effort will be following directions. Ms. Anders will not help you, unless you have checked off ALL the steps below. But don’t check them unless you have done them!

FOR THOSE OF YOU DOING THIS FROM HOME: PRINT THIS PAGE OUT AN CROSS OFF THE DIRECTIONS AS YOU DO THEM AND SUBMIT THIS SHEET TO MS ANDERS WHEN YOU ARE DONE!!!

YOU MUST FIRST DIVIDE UP ALL THIS WORK AND MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH PART. For the map and calendar part of this project, it works best if one person is reading the instructions, while the other clicks. In the end, you all both (all) responsible for knowing how to do all of this. So make sure you are working together and delegating who should be doing what. No one is sitting around while the others work.

CLASS Home Page: You must have created a title under the appropriate period of our home page ([|www.2011traveladventures].wikispaces.com). When you highlight your title, click LINK (and click the X into the box that ask if you want to have the page open in a new window). Do not click the External Page Tab. Remember to Click SAVE!

Once your title is linked, you will go there and click the title of your trip. That will open up YOUR HOME PAGE. This will be the place where you list the titles of all the sections to this project. Now it is time to create those links. On YOUR HOME page, let’s first create titles to the following: · Calendar of our Trip · Map of our Trip · List of Important Phrases We Will Need · Backpack List · Journals ---LINK THIS TO INTERNAL PAGE · Budget---LINK THIS TO INTERNAL PAGE

Now, make sure at least one partner is a member of google.com. If they have a gmail account, then they do. If neither of you do, then go to google.com and “create a new account”. Make sure whenever you click a new account, you are using the same username and password as other accounts (for now….. when you are actually using them for a bank or anything private or financial, you need to get more complicated for safety reasons.)

To Create Your Calendar: Place your cursor under the title for your calendar. Click the widget icon and select calendar. Select Google Calendar and click the link on #1. As soon as you do this, it will open up a new window in Google Calendar. Once you are ready to make a calendar, follow these directions: 1. Click the Add button on the left of your main calendar page. 2. Select Create a new calendar from the menu. 3. Enter all the relevant information on the Calendar Details page. Give your calendar a name, description. 4. Click Create Calendar. 5. Add your departure date (must be summer time!) and when you will go to the various cities and arrival dates by creating events. Make sure your stay is two weeks.

Underneath the title of your calendar on the LEFT click the very small “settings” button. Once you select your calendar, click “embed this calendar” and highlight the entire HTML code in the white box. This code will enable wikispaces to find this in google when you paste it in. Go back to your wiki tab and paste (either edit+paste or apple sign+”v”) this code into the white wikispaces box. Click save and then save your home page.

To Create Your Map: Now you will put your cursor below the Map of Our Trip title and click the widget icon and then click “maps” on the left. Click Google Maps. Follow these directions and click on #1 link. As soon as you click this, it will open up a new window. You will now create your map. To create your map once you are in google maps: Click the “my maps” link. Click “create new map”. Give it a title and a description (our trip though Mexico and Guatemala) and make it PUBLIC (this way, you can always find it again if you are running out of time to add it to your wiki home page. Wait until the map is loaded and then find the place you will depart from. (SD for Latin America or NYC for Europe). You will click on the map and actually move it with your mouse. You can click the + and – button on the left to zoom in and out. When you have your city picked out, click the placemark at the top (blue, teardrop thumbtack) and drag it down to your departure city. Give it a name (SD or NYC Airport) and click the teardrop to change the icon to a plane. Click OK Now, you need to find your arrival city. Do the same thing for that.  To connect these two points, go up to the third icon (zig zag going up) and select “draw a line”. As you hover over the cities, it will tell you what do do. Zoom into a spot close to your placemarks. You click to start drawing the line and you double click to end the line. Now find the three other cities you will visit and place those with which ever symbol is appropriate. Ms. Anders recommends traveling overland by train, because it is fun. J When you are done with your map, you will click the top right LINK button. You will select the second option that says Paste HTML to embed in website (This is called an HTML code. It is what will tell your wikispaces where to find this map. Double click and highlight the entire code.) Now go back to your wikipage and put your cursor in the white box. Click “save”. You may need to wait a few seconds for it to appear. Sometimes, with wikispaces, it won’t appear until you click SAVE on the homepage.