Monday, September 22, 2014

Technical Drawing Presentations

These Videos have many good examples.  You can create excellent Technical Drawings (also called (Engineering Drawings).  You just need to practice.

What is Technical Drawing?




Sample of Technical Drawing:




Technical Drawing - Orthographic Views



Autodesk Inventor Isometric Drawing - and some good music!


Your Blog Comment Task:
  • Find a helpful or interesting YouTube (or other video website) video and paste its URL as a comment to this post.  Add a few words about why it is your choice.


Some example search criteria might be: technical drawing, engineering drawing, ellipse, circle, dimensioning, pencil, sketch, ....

Example Comment Format
Name: first name and last name (or initial)
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bsBiiQ5uWY
Why: I found this video to be helpful or interesting because I learned ..... Once I understood ....., I was able to  ........ :) ok - that is an example except you fill in the blanks mmmmk? 




Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Defining our I.C.E. course

Let's develop some common understanding of what this course is about.

Tasks

  • Choose one of the words that make up the title of this course.
    • Innovation
    • Creativity
    • Entrepreneurialism
  • Go to one or two of the websites below and search for a video that relates to that word(s).
    • http://www.ted.com/
    • http://www.bbc.com/news/
    • YouTube
    • any other website you find that look reliable and interesting
  • Comment below with a 2 to 5 sentence (good grammar) summary of the video that explains your understanding of the word. Add a link (or at least the url) to the video.
  • Look at other students' comments and watch a video for the two words you did not choose.

A little about you ... and your talents

One of the objectives of this course is to help you realize and develop your talents. Often, our talents come from a combination of our interests, experiences, and personality.  We will be working in teams frequently in this course.  Teams work best when they have people with diverse talents.  This blog post assignment will help us identify and share our talents so we might form balanced teams.

Take this online Personality Test: http://marcaccetta.com/personality-test.php (copy and paste into a new tab)

Answer the following questions in a reply to this Blog Post. First log in with a Google Account if you have one.

Q1. What are some areas in which you feel talented?
Q2. What are your scores in each Personality Category from the test above?
Yellow =
Blue =
Green =
Red =
Q3. Watch the video about the tendencies of your color. Why do you agree or disagree?
Q4. What type of role on the I.C.E. Team might be a good fit for you?

Copy the 4 questions above and paste them into a comment.
Refresh the post and read other comments to learn a bit about your classmates.