This week I focused on the presence of knitting in the media. I found several great stories of people doing impressive things with yarn; a doctor who knits hats for every baby he delivers, two women who started a program to help rehabilitate prisoners by teaching them to knit, several organizations that distribute knit items for charity, a woman who crocheted a fully functional innovative playground, an entire subculture of knit street art, and a group of human rights activists that organized the creation of a kilometer long scarf calling political attention to the thousands of unidentified bodies in unmarked graves in Peru.
Since this was the final stretch, there wasn’t much left to learn about the program and features or how to use it. I’ve been using this time primarily to stay on top of homework from other classes, but I’ve also begun to consider what I’ll be putting in my final report. When you get down too it, what were the benefits of using a wiki? Was it detrimental to my goal in any way? Did the forum suit the discourse in content and style? If asked about my experience, what would I tell others about using a wiki? I hope to be able to satisfactorily answer these questions, as well as any others that come up during our final face-to-face meeting on Tuesday.
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