GarageBand Wiki Reflection

As many of you know, my media specific project was about GarageBand. It was a fascinating program to learn as well as apply to writing classes. I have to admit, I was more excited about doing the wiki project than using the actual technology. :) I had never contributed to anything online like a website and certainly not something that I was certain others were going to reference. The whole experience was fun in my opinion!

First: Getting to know how the wiki works
Since I was completely new to wikis and how they work, it took me a while to understand the formatting (fonts, indents, size, pictures, etc). Once I got the hang of it, it was actually fun to play around with. One thing that I had a lot of experience with while creating my wiki was pictures! lol. I was very frustrated at times, I wished I could just move them how you can in almost all programs, but of course not! In the wiki we need to time certain parentheses, commas, etc in order to import the picture. Once I got the picture imported, then it took a while to figure out how to get it right where I want it. I'm a very visual person, so I wanted the page to look good as well as have good information.

Second: Figuring out what I wanted on my wiki
No offense to the student who did GarageBand last semester, but I did not think the wiki was very good nor did it get across important information. So I was lucky that I already had a page created, but it needed some desperate work! :) My main focus on page was figuring out how to incorporate information for students/instructors (who will be looking at it) that would be usefull. I wanted to make sure I made it clear that just becuase it is sound editing, that it CAN be used for writing classes. Hopefully I was able to do this successfully. One problem that I had with this section was that I wish I could have incorporated more specific examples. I was not able to do this because I, myself, did not have that much experience with the program, but I know its capabilities (so that's what I tried to focus on).

Third: Redoing the category page for Sound Editing
In addition to redoing my GarageBand page, I also refreshed the category page for sound editing. Again, the page was set up nicely, but just needed some re-wording. This is also where my challenges with the pictures came in. :) But with Scot's help, it all worked out. My group and I wanted this page to be a general overview that would help the readers understand more about sound editing. Hopefully after reading this information, the reader will be interested and click onto one of our specific program pages.

Fourth: Working with my group
I think that our sound editing group distributed the work evenly. We did not work much on each other's pages. We all worked on our own and then all had some input to the category page. I know that Alex did have more work than Jack and I because he had to create a whole new page, but it seemed to be working well for him and he did not need our help.

Overall, I thought this was a fun project and a good way to wrap up what we had already started and worked on for the media specific project. Hopefully instructors and students will find these pages useful in the future.