Today during class I started adding data to one of my pages. I began to write on my page about slave women writers, although this is supposed to be for writers I also included women like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. I included them because their writings were very limited during the time they lived. Harriet Tubman's spirituals were a way of gathering slaves together, and this was an oral tradition. Sojourner Truth gave abolitionist and black women equality speeches, which were also orally presented. Paper and publishing was limited to both of them so I included them anyway.
It's only up from here because I've been to the bottom and I'm not going back. I got some positive feedback in class today about the front page of the wiki, and now I'm not as discouraged as I was before about the design and the layout. This is an educational wiki, so the information is the important thing, and not the layout. Now that I've got this boost of energy, nothing can stop me!
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I was glad to hear that comment as well, that wikis are mostly educational, that's their first job. Design elements, perhaps, are more for blogs which are to entice the reader to read more for pleasure ... thinking maybe like the cover of a book entices you to read, but you don't care how the cover of an encyclopedia looks b/c you're using it just for info ... maybe something like that. It made me feel not so bad about my plain class wiki. Glad you shared.
I agree with Juanita. It's also impressive the research you're doing for your wiki and the amount of time you're obviously investing in it.
Your idea was fantastic, just wanted to let you know. And I think your wiki looked fabulous- I can tell you put a ton of work into doing all of that research.
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