Bonnie+Stanford

If I am being completely honest, this assignment has been stressful from the start. Much like Dr. Ceglie's tracing forward assignment, the initial introduction to the activity was intimidating and seemed impossible. But also like Dr. Ceglie, Dr. Reffitt had faith in our abilities, hope in our creativity, and a love for educational history - which we all found within ourselves during this project. Ultimately, I appreciate a good challenge and creating this wiki page was the appropriate level of difficulty.

Briefly, the technology itself was a bit frustrating. I am not sure if it was not as user friendly as I am used to or if the site we are using indeed has some bugs, but there were a few times when we had to take a break and let the system cool off. We also learned from some of the other groups and chose to copy and paste our work into several other places, including word documents, as a backup so that we wouldn't have to start over.

On the content side of the project, once we got into a groove and knew what information we wanted, we were able to tackle even more than we set out to conquer. Ami, Tabitha, and I worked effectively, efficiently, and cordially. We are lucky to have been able to work together before and our efforts are collectively hard-working. We started out with a review of the past wiki and all quickly came to similar conclusions - it wasn't organized effectively, there were portions that seemed unprofessional (rather than humorous which we hoped was what they were going for), and many things left out completely. Even as we looked over it independently, we came together with very similar ideas for improvement and reorganization. We were able to coordinate time and place several times to work together and that was extremely beneficial so that we could spread out, talk it out, ask each other, and contribute to every section and page. Overall, the work we did was beneficial. We learned a great deal about ourselves, educational history, and technology!