Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Finishing Touches

After the peer review session I had a mixed feeling of nervousness and accomplishment.  I felt accomplished because of all the procrastinating I had done up until this point on the project.  I really did not think I would ever start the project but I did and I was proud for that simple fact.  Unfortunately, the feeling of nervousness overcame the accomplishment.  Although I had done some good work, I still had a lot to do.  I also realized that my Critical Literacy project, which I had neglected to start, was due on the same day.  I was not happy about this but went on with my day and returned home to begin the work.  Because the WikiTravel was fresh in my mind, I started working on that in a Word Document.  I cleaned up the organization and changed a lot of the wording I had used.  I also wrote an entire new section which was originally just a link to the North Kingstown page.  Exhausted, I passed out forgetting about all my other work.
I awoke today and immediately started my work.  I started with my Critical Literacy project and switched from that to WikiTravel.  When I got into a rhythm working on one project, I got an idea for the other project and switched over to add it in.  This is a new form of procrastination I have discovered.
As the night drew on, I was finally ready to post my Wiki page.  I copied and pasted it and then pressed preview.  To my surprise, half of the new text I had written was in a tiny font and surrounded by a broken-line border.  I was not happy about this.  I kept trying every method I knew to fix it but nothing seemed to work.  I decided that my options were to either throw my computer out a window or look up the problem on Google.  Although the computer option seemed like it was a long time coming and needed to happen, I chose the latter.  I looked up the problem online and found a solution.  When I did this I discovered that the solution was to save the file as an HTML file and then paste it.  I did this but there was zero change.  As my fists clenched, I left WikiTravel and started Critical Literacies again.  I finished this project and was forced to return to the dreaded WikiTravel.
I took my time and realized that I was going to have to do a lot of editing inside the page.  I started this and overcame my aggravation at each turn.  I still do not understand why the bullets from Word did not translate well on the Wiki page.  I decided to get rid of them and carefully made spaces between sentences.  This did not look nearly as good as it did but I could not get myself to do anymore.  I posted the page which looked much better than it did before but I was still not happy with it.  I realized that it was still a good final product even though it did not look like I had wanted it to.  

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