Wiki and more....

The ongoing wiki project has been a dominating force on my mind to learn and understand more about its capabilities. While I was pondering over editing issues and hitting dead ends, I decided to become more resourceful and returned to the IT lab at the Healey Library where I found Christian DeTorres who greatly helped me, not only to delete that horrific salient image on the home page, but also answered every question I had concerning the summer wiki. First, I transferred my old wiki to the UMB wiki site to avoid the annoying ads and because I was told it had more features. Then we proceeded with the cleaning up process after week 5's web design readings. I wanted better alignment, navigation, fonts, heading, images, videos, discussion threads, and hyperlinks to authors and more. I joined "Disqus" that allows me to view and manage the student responses better. I also was introduced to "Refworks" that supposedly is more convenient than "Zotero" because I can access it from anywhere and it is easier to embed onto the wiki...I think! Then I was advised about "Get.live.com" to manage my photo gallery and "Robo Form"that plugs in with your browser and is password protected. This program stores all your passwords and user names so that you can immediately retrieve and fill in the appropriate info for $20.00. I got a bit confused as dinner time was approaching and had skipped lunch. He mentioned something about "Google Reader"...but then decided on "Disqus". Again "RSS" feed came up and Christian added his views to its function. It is a way to get "updated" related articles of interest. My wiki looks a lot better now and I especially liked the links to the authors we are discussing in class. My only hope is that I can continue using what Christian has shown me so patiently when he is not by my side.