Monday, November 4, 2013

Wikispaces Reflection


The comments I received said that my wiki was very informative and well organized. The only suggestions about change that I received had to do with the widgets and the format of the pages. This was one of the biggest problems I had with creating my wiki… the widgets never worked and the format did not seem to want to stay the way that I had saved it.

I used Google calendar as one of my widgets because I trust Google apps. But for some reason, one person said they were unable to view the calendar. However, when I went to see if it was working I was able to see it just fine. I'm not sure what was going on for them not to be able to view it correctly. Another person said that the format of part of my wiki was messed up and a picture was covering up other parts of the wiki. Again, I’m not sure what was going on for this to have happened because I checked and I was able to see everything just fine.

I felt like I had put a little too much on my wiki and felt that it was a little busy looking. I rearranged some things and removed some tabs to make it not look as busy. The comments said that my wiki was very informative, but by removing some things, I made it just as informative but without it looking busy.

I definitely want to use some sort of class webpage for my students to use; however, I'm not sure that I will use Wikispaces. I had the hardest time with sizing fonts, changing colors, and formatting the pages. Nothing seemed to want to stay the way I saved it and I had to continuously go back in and fix it. Needless to say I was extremely frustrated with the website. Also, for some reason, others sometimes did not see the wiki as it should have looked. The format was off or a widget didn't work the way it should have.


Here is my finalized wikispace:
http://petruett.wikispaces.com/home


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