MilestoneReport

What a challenging exercise this was! After collecting the information with Sue, I set to task organising the information and setting it out so that it was user friendly for Nancy to pull the information she would need. Working in the cluster wiki was a whole new experience altogether. It was slow and would freeze, so I decided to type all the information into a word document.

The only time I was able to work on the report was while I was at home, however all my information was on my school laptop and I was unable to gain internet acess on my school computer at home. I had to transfer the data on to my home computer in order to be able to work online. This became an onerous task, as documents, pictures, planning and rubrics needed to be transferred over!

However, after transferring my document on to the wiki, it threw my entire formatting out. The school logo pictured disappeared, bullet points disappeared, everything was underlined, paragraphs no longer existed and everything was bunched together, the font was tiny, colours had also been affected. So I started to fix all the formatting errors, only to find that after every few lines that I corrected, the wiki would freeze and I would have to sign out and start all over again. This occurred numerous times and so I had to save my work every couple of lines. Talk about FRUSTRATION!!!!!!

Hoorayyyyyyyyyyyyy all the information was on, the way I had intended the formatting to be. Now further challenges. How do I create links, how do I put pictures on the wiki, how do I create a movie of evidence and put it on the blog. Thank goodness for my son!!! He helped me with the links and pictures and after many hours of muddling and fiddling, I worked out how to embed a you tube video.

I did find this whole experience a real pain!!! In hindsight, it would have been a good idea to spend time with the cluster and learn how to make links and videos and upload them to google etc etc prior to this exercise.

POSITIVES: The positives however is that I now know how to create hyperlinks on the wiki. I learnt how to upload files to the wiki. I learnt how to create a movie using the flipcamera. I created a youtube account. I uploaded a video to youtube and I was able to embed it on to the wiki.