Jessica+Garcia

2/10/12 - So far, this Wiki project has been very educational and fun. To be honest, I was intimidated about this "new" technology, the Wiki. Now, however, I feel very comfortable with it. I also felt more confident as I pulled up scholarly journal articles about the chapters in our book regarding this time period. It is interesting to see what other researchers are doing with similar information. I really enjoyed creating the TimeLine __complete__ with links, as well as the Summary Breakdown. The table-format really helps me to organize the information. I hope it is also more reader-friendly. I will write more later. This is just practice.

3/5/12 - The Wiki project wound up being more fun and interesting than I had imagined. Originally, I was intimidated by the technology, as well as the unfamiliar content area. Our assignment was to go beyond the text books, which was a helpful push in that it exposed me to a greater understanding and appreciation of this era. Kim and I worked very well together communicating our different ideas. We both participated actively and did our share of work, as well as set goals and keep timetables. Neither of us dominated the group meetings, nor did either of us need to be pushed to speak up on our ideas. We were comfortable with a few constructive disagreements and reached positive solutions and compromises. Our different perspectives helped strengthen the Wiki as was finally presented to the class.

Class presentation discussions led us to believe our organization and additional categories (from the original group) were helpful to the reader. Yet, keeping some of the original resources and pages from the first group also proved helpful. My favorite part was gathering and organizing the extra information, such as the time line with working links, primary sources and scholarly articles. That really helped the era to come to life for me, and passing that on to our Wiki audience was very exciting!

All in all, I highly recommend this project to doctoral students and feel it can benefit teachers, students, and researchers alike.