Technical Skills

Here are the online technical skills I have learnt throughout the project due to to technical problems I faced when doing my project. 

Reflection

Throughout my project, I would have not expected to learn these types of technical skills for working on my project. I was actually really surprised at how simple some of my problems actually were when I tried fixing them with the help of these articles. Now with these new technical skills, I am able to work more efficiently without losing time on encountering problems like these. The only difficulty I had with these is that some of the websites don't give a very detailed explanation and I just needed to look at more which would actually help me. 

Problem 1: I didn't know how to embed my work into my blog posts. 

Our project required lots of PowerPoint and Google Docs that needed to be put on this blog page, but I didn't know how to, as it was my first time using this platform.

Solution: I looked up how to do this from this article. 

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/08/how-to-embed-google-docs-into-your-blog.html
This solution also worked for other Google tools such as Google Sheets and Slides.

Steps: 

1. Own the document first, then share and publish it to the web. 

2. After publishing, there will be an embed section in there which will show a line of code for our document, copy that code. 

3. Click the pen icon on blogger.com and click HTML view

4. Find an empty space in the code, and paste your copied line of code, and your documents should then be embedded. 

Problem 2:  I had trouble resizing an embedded document in my blogger.com 

Solution: I looked up a discussion on how to quickly solve this problem when embedding a document. and a user comment showed me how to do it. 

https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-adjust-the-size-of-embedded-YouTube-videos-on-your-blog-posts 

1. Have your document embedded and go to HTML view. 

2. Locate where you embedded your document, in my case I found it in line 3

3. Go to the very end of the code where it reads the <iframe>

4. before these '><' symbols in the code, write this code, "witdh=(your value you want) height=(your value you want)" and after that, your embed should have the good size you desire.

Problem 3: I have to pay for articles I want to use as a quick research

Solution: I looked up this article on how to bypass paywalls 

https://www.bardeen.ai/posts/how-to-bypass-a-paywall 

I used the first method with a download of their Chrome extension which allowed me to paste my article link and view it without using my money.