Our collective brainchild is coming to life! Soon, all in search of information on Victorian short stories will have a beautiful resource. How exciting is that?! Pretty darn, I’d say. While working on pulling the author pages together tonight, I felt a few emotions. Most of them were good. Firstly, I was amazed at how quickly everyone in the class has picked up using links and coding to create the pages that we have on the site. As I created the links between the author and story pages, I felt like a technology whiz. In all actuality, I’m sure my actions are quite simple within the realm of all things technical, but it felt advanced to me at least.
The thing that I love best about our wiki, aside from the wonderful information and personal insight provided by my fellow class members and myself, is the connectability of it all. I’ll clarify, because I’m pretty sure that “connectability” isn’t even a word (Yikes, I’m an English major). I like that I can click on links throughout the stories and they can send me to more information and pages that we have created – just like a real site! I guess I’m just astounded at how legitimate it all is.
While reflecting on this entire process, I’ve been thinking about how this experience has made me more marketable as a future employee. Creating a wiki site from scratch is no easy task. From the organization and delegation of tasks to editing and placing links, these skills can be used in a variety of vocations. The world is online these days, so having experience creating an online platform for information is extremely valuable. I suppose we have Professor Chang to thank for giving us this experience. Thanks, Professor Chang. Now, about those doughnuts for the launch party……
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