Wiki Reflection

Windows Movie Maker in Writing Technology Wiki was interesting because it was the first time for me to actually add to an entry like Wiki. At first it was simple because all I had to do was read over the previous entry that was done last semester and then I made corrections on spelling. The way how I did the spell check is by copying the whole entry from the “Edit” button then I paste it on to Microsoft Word then spell check and there were plenty of spell checks corrected.
Another thing that I did on Windows Movie Maker Wiki is adding the new version information and facts that I encountered during my project. There was not much to add to the Wiki itself about the new version because everything was similar to the others, but just some more additions. The previous entry was kind of plain because it only had one huge screen shot of the program itself at the bottom of the screen, but I changed the screen shot to a current one and I also found a smaller picture which did not take the whole bottom. I actually decided to post the screen shot towards the middle so it attracts the reader to continue reading the following information. After finding the screen shot I found another picture which was the logo of Windows Movie Maker and I added that to the first section of the page. I did not know how to resize the picture or where to exactly place the picture on the page but after viewing other pages I kind of found out how to place it to the right or left.
Another thing that the Windows Movie Maker page did not have was the strengths and weaknesses of the program in writing because the previous entry only had the strengths and weaknesses of the software itself. I left what the previous entry had about the technology and added another section about how it benefits writing. I also added more information to the strengths and weaknesses of the software as a technology and erased the ones that were fixed by Microsoft.
For the category page, it was a little bit more difficult to add or delete anything because the previous entry had the main idea of what video editing was. I was talking with the group about finding more information about the history section because it just listed some video editing software with no history at all. It was a difficult task to find out when video editing was introduced because everywhere I searched for it, more and more software come up rather than the history. At first I added a picture on the side to make the page more attractive then Addison found a better picture by making a collage of the programs which made the Category page look more interesting.
Other than that, I think one of the harder tasks was getting used to the Wiki style of editing pages because it is different from html or other editing sites because it has its own codes.

Mobile Mobs?

The last article we read about mobs and protesters using the phone as a tool was interesting. i was going to say something in class about a recent text message hoax about a walmart gang initiation shooting which got many people scared to even go to walmart. When i was reading the article it made me think about this though which is odd because it just happened then we're reading something about it. But like what we were mentioning class about how the receiver of the text usually does not know what is going on but usually goes to it which made me think about how text is a fast way of getting peoples attention, but it does not specify the news. I guess text messaging could be considered a promoting tool for businesses too.
Well heres a funny clip off subject.

WIKI WEEK

So this week we have been focusing on our wiki projects and i have been working on the video editing software Windows Movie Maker, and i have to update the information in the wiki itself because they are the older version of windows. i find that the Wiki sight is very interesting because i never really knew that we can add text into the web sites itself and i find it very interesting too how we can edit some of the pages. for the main video editing page, we as a group need to make it more interesting because it is just text without any pictures so my group is planning to make it more interesting.