Below are the 2 most recent journal entries recorded in Vance Stevens' LiveJournal:

Saturday, October 8th, 2005
12:42 pm	Hi I'm Vance I'm a teacher at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. I want to introduce you to my students. Here are my links Visit the PI Moodle More about Vance Some first assignments have been updated: Saif Mahmoud: http://www.livejournal.com/users/11031saif/1807.html Rashid Obeid http://www.livejournal.com/users/raokindi/754.html http://www.livejournal.com/users/raokindi/903.html Ahmed Dhanhani http://www.livejournal.com/users/dhanhani_pi/2960.html http://www.livejournal.com/users/dhanhani_pi/2560.html Ahmed Rashid http://www.livejournal.com/users/ahmedalhebsi/ Humaid Mubarak http://www.livejournal.com/users/humaid/753.html These students have successfully added second pages to the LiveJournal blogs they started earlier: Saif Mahmoud http://www.livejournal.com/users/11031saif/2502.html needs, subtitle, table with text next to picture, bulleted list Abdullah Khamis http://www.livejournal.com/users/khamis99/ Assignment competed 100% Rashid Obeid http://www.livejournal.com/users/raokindi/2670.html Assignment competed 100% Ahmed Dhanhani http://www.livejournal.com/users/dhanhani_pi/3335.html Assignment competed 100% Hesham Bawazeer http://www.livejournal.com/users/heabawazeer_pi/ picture link doesn't work These pages are to include the following features the students have been studying: A centered heading, big font, and subheading in smaller font A picture and some paragraph text A picture in a 2-column table.  At least one of the pictures links to a web site. At least one of the pictures must be to a Buzznet link. Some text in the table in the cell next to the picture. A bulleted list with more than one level of bullets (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
10:12 am	comp 032 The PI Comp082 LiveJournal Page for classes taught by Vance Stevens Lecturer of Computing at Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi Putting your HTML code on the Internet and linking to your pictures Navigation: Setting Up | Uploading code to LiveJournal | Uploading pics to Buzznet Results after 1 hour's work with PI computing students This tutorial teaches you how to get your html code up on the Internet quickly. We'll then upload pictures to the Internet and link to them through the code. Here's an example: http://www.livejournal.com/users/vance_stevens/ All the code you need to know is here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/pi/very_basics/starthere.htm Setting up: We will put the code here: http://www.livejournal.com/ We'll put pictures here: http://www.buzznet.com You'll need to start an account at both places. See how to set up an acct in Live Journal: https://www.livejournal.com/create.bml See how to set up an acct in Buzznet: http://webpres2005.buzznet.com/user/?id=1013949 DON'T FORGET your user names and passwords. Write them down somewhere. Uploading your code When you've set up your two accounts, you can start working on them. Create some code in HTML. Show your teacher. When your teacher thinks it's ok, then login to live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/login.bml To make an entry pull down Journal Update Paste your code into the journal and click Update Journal (you don't need HTML, HEAD, or BODY tags, just the code in between) To edit an entry later pull down Manage Entries and choose the latest one (or any other) Uploading your pictures We'll keep the pictures at Buzznet Log on to your acct at Buzznet Click on Home in the right sidebar Click on New Photo or Quick, then browse for your photo on your computer and upload it When the photo appears in Buzznet, right click on it and select Properties Copy the Address URL information by highlighting it (make sure you get the whole thing - only 2 lines show but if you pull the mouse you may get more) and then using CTRL-C to copy it. Paste the complete url after <IMG SRC= in your code, beginning and ending with "http .... .jpg"> Save your work and view it in a browser. Does it work? Here's some information on working with pictures on the Internet: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/pi/very_basics/pictureperfect.htm Results At the end of one hour with this exercise 15 out of 17 Arabic national 19-year-old non-native English speaking 1st year college students in Computing 082 had produced blogs to display in some fashion on the Internet the code they had previously adapted or created for homework. Other than having been instructed to prepare simple web pages, they had received nothing beforehand to alert them to the nature of the exercise they would be given. It was their first experience with trying out blogs and the fact that most were able to view their code from their web documents, extract just the parts they would need, and upload this code to LiveJournal -- and some to open Buzznet blogs and put pictures there, and one or two to even link to those pictures and revise their LiveJournal blogs with the links that would display the pictures -- shows that this exercise, while complex and challenging, was by no means beyond their ability to accomplish in an hour (Oct 5, 2005). 1 Humaid (absent) 2 Ahmad Ismail http://www.livejournal.com/users/ahmad_ismael/384.html 3 Wadah http://www.livejournal.com/users/0805wadah/761.html 4 Hassan Abdullah http://www.livejournal.com/users/0829hassan/ 5 Ahmed Rashid   6 Mohammed Salem http://www.livejournal.com/users/0837_mohammed/ 7 Sami http://www.livejournal.com/users/saaalsaadi/409.html 8 Ahmed Ali http://www.livejournal.com/users/ahaaldhahri/490.html 9 Hamed http://www.livejournal.com/users/0974hamed/ 10 Mohamed Ahmed   11 Mohammed Al Dehba http://www.livejournal.com/users/almehairiaaaa/379.html 12 Saif http://www.livejournal.com/users/1031saif/3779.html 13 Hesham http://www.livejournal.com/users/heabawazeer 14 Saud http://www.livejournal.com/users/1053saud/ 15 Ali http://www.livejournal.com/users/asnake/ 16 Ahmed Ali   17 Abdulla Khamis http://www.livejournal.com/users/abdulla2060pi/ 18 Rashid did it, but submitted wrong URL (Comment on this)