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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Blog Addresses for Students in Prof. Mitchell’s Bridge Sections

Below are the blog addresses of the students in these sections, sorted by last name. This list was generated from the A1 assignment submission so there are some blog addresses missing, either because no blog URL was submitted, or the editing URL rather than the published URL was submitted.

“Not Available” means that the URL submitted was the editing URL – only the owner can see that
A blank URL means no URL was submitted.

You can see the blog by clicking the URL. To find the particular post of interest you will need to:

Use the “labels” that (we hope) each student applied
Scroll through the blog.

Name URL of Blog

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Posting Mechanism

Question:

Last week for the teamwork post my group posted them as comments on our "Weekly post" page. For the A1 assignment we have to make a post and title it and when ever we try to make a post it always goes to our home page. How should we go about posting it?

Response:

Without looking at your blog I cannot be certain about this answer, but it sounds to me as though you're probably doing the correct thing. The idea behind a blog is that the latest post is always at the top of the list, with previous posts following on the page. To see previous posts you can:

Scroll down the main page - usually a limited number of posts will be scrollable
Search the blog for key words
Use the "labels" (sometimes called "tags") to click and see the posts with those labels
Use the chronology to show those posts happening at a given time.

Note that you don't want to "comment" on a previous post, you want to create a new post each time. You add comments only when you want the comment to stick with the post as a comment.

To get the URL of your specific post:

Display the post on your page - that's what happens usually when you "publish" your post or search for it
Click on the title of the post

That displays that post only, with the URL in the "Location Bar"

Copy the URL from the location bar

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Field Inspection - Week-3 Discussion Alternate Topic

Those who wish to substitute the following for the discussion portion of the week-3 blog entry may do so. Understand that you still include the notebook entries on what you did and what you're going to do.

Field Inspection

Safely visit a truss bridge, take photos, make observations on its function and its status. By status we mean.

Its overall condition
Whether the traffic loads on it appear too great, too little, or about right
Any particular problems you observe, particularly with respect to the truss portion of the bridge

Include the photos in your blog entry as well as your observations.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

How to Capture and Post Images

This post was created to show you how to capture and post images to your blog. I used a PC (Windows-7) so some of the information is PC-specific.

Tools

Windows-7 has a built-in screen capture tool - "Snipping Tool"

On a home machine just searching for snipping
On a "locked down" Drexel machine in which searching isn't available you may be able to go to windows help (F1 when on the desktop) and search for "snipping". In the help that comes up there will be links to the snipping tool.

You can also use PrintScreen - which has good instructions on how to use it.
There are many good, free screen capture utilities. One that I use is PicPick

How to Add an Image - How I created the image above

I'll assume you have access to Snipping on a PC - other programs will be similar

Get the image you want to capture on your screen - e.g. the bridge design
Start the program Snipping

If it's already started create a new snip from its menu

The screen will go white
Draw around the area you want to capture
That will capture it to the program Snipping

Save the image to a file somewhere where you can get it again

I used the default "png" format to create the image above

Open Blogger and put the cursor where you want the image to appear.
Click on the link of the image in Blogger for to upload it to your blog - see below

Accept it within blogger

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

About This Blog

We'll use this blog as home base for all information related to our two sections of ENGR-103. It has all the assignment information, grading information that you’ll need. We’ll also use it to post Official announcements and answer questions that are raised throughout this term.

We advise you to subscribe to it via an RSS reader such as Google Reader. That way you won't have to go into VistaBB to get information though you’ll still have submit assignments there. There are many, many blogs available on interesting topics. A good place to search for others that may interest you is Technorati.