Science Posters

Putting your Science Poster on UMW Blogs
Professor Parker asked that I send around instructions on how you can upload your science posts to the Science Poster Site.

Authoring on UMW Blogs

 * If you don't have a username and/or blog on UMW Blogs already, you will need to first get a username on UMW Blogs so that you can create a post on the Science Posters blog. Follow the directions for doing this here.
 * Next, once you hve a username sign-in to UMW Blogs and then got to http://sciposter.umwblogs.org and look for the "Add Users" section in the sidebar and click on the "Add Me" button. When you click this, you will automatically become an author on this blog, which will allow you to create a post containing your poster.


 * You should now be able to login into this site---by clicking on Site admin or login under the Meta section of the sidebar---and write a post which will contain your science poster. You have a few options for including your science poster:

Embedding Media in a post
If you have your Poster on a service like SlideShare or Glogster, you can embed it within a post using the embed link provided by these tools. To do this, simply copy and past the embed code from the site into the HTML tab of the text editor.



Also, if you did your poster on a PowerPoint slide and you want it to be presented within the slide (rather than just a link) you will need to upload it on SlideShare, and then grab the embed code and past it into the HTML editor.

Uploading Media to a Post
If you want to upload a PowerPoint Poster, PDF document, or some other file to the blog, you need to do the following: In the Write &rarr; Post (or Page) and look for the "Add media" button that looks like a gray asterisk, as pictured below.

When you click on that button, a dialog box will appear offering you the option to upload a file from your hard drive, or to link directly to a file that is already online. Once you have located your file (whether on your hard drive or online) click on the "Upload" button or "Insert into Post" button, respectively.



If uploading a file from your hard drive, you will get a dialog box asking you to title the document, as well as to provide a caption and description (both of which are optional). Once you are done, click on the "Insert into Post" button and you are done.



Please keep in mind that an uploaded document will only provide a lnk, it will not "embed" the media and allow it o play.