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This website, "BayBridge360.com," lets viewers find out the lastest updates and news on the building of the bay bridge.
The website is a Flash-based site, which makes it very interactive to move around on it. It shows all the different parts of the bridge and all the parts that they are still building.
There are videoson this website of construction on some of the beams that are being built in Hawaii.
To build the bay bridge you have to have a main cable saddle, right? Well, yes, if you are building a suspension bridge. Bart Ney and his crew flew into Japan to make the main cable saddle at Japan Steel Sorks. The following a video of how this is made:
Saddles are large devices that hold, or "carry," the main suspension cables on the bridge. They are usually made of steel because they must be incredibly strong.
The process of making the main saddle takes about one to two weeks. What people do is use sand to make molten, and they have cranes that pick up one 90 ton and 70 ton containers of molten steel and drop it into a big bowl. The drying process takes about a week and a half. This is a site that you could go on to see other parts of the Bay Bridge that are being built, http://baybridge360.org/ and http://baybridgeinfo.org/
Baybridge360.org is a website by baybridgeinfo.org that offers a bird's eye view of the construction of the Bay Bridge. This is a surprisingly complex website, as it includes a variety of multimedia -- photos, slide shows, and video..
The site is made with Flash, a multimedia program developed in 1996. It is used to add animation and interactivity to web pages.
Student Assignment: Zach Spend several minutes clicking around this website -- find out which elements move, and be sure to watch at least one video clip.
Write a brief story about this website. Link to the website, and use this news release by the Metropolitan Transportation Committee for background information. If you use any information from this news release, you must source it. To do so, simply write "according to the Metropolitan Transportation Committee" and include a link to the release. You can also find information on this baybridgeinfo.org or download images or videos from page on the site.
Remember to include the basics -- also known as the five W's -- of a news story:
This website, "BayBridge360.com," lets viewers find out the lastest updates and news on the building of the bay bridge.
Baybridge360.org is a website by baybridgeinfo.org that offers a bird's eye view of the construction of the Bay Bridge. This is a surprisingly complex website, as it includes a variety of multimedia -- photos, slide shows, and video..