In spite of the snowstorm, today felt like a very productive one for me. I was able to work on the "Diligence" page for three hours straight (perhaps an example of my best rendition of diligence!), although part of the time involved experimenting with different kinds of wikis to try to create a collective 'vow' sharing page. Finally, alas, I have figured out an application for wikis which might work well with the blog. I also managed to complete a video for "Patience" using images of the snowstorm in Toronto as my visual 'poem'. Over time, I am also learning a few more features about the Movie Maker software, including how to set timing and music volume to a desired level. One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to make the captions fly in and out, as in a powerpoint.
There were three kinds of wikis I had tried to experiment with today, with varying degrees of success. It all revealed limitations on my part. I for one am not familiar enough with HTML language to really figure out how to make the wiki attractive. The other limitation is that many of the wikis cost money to maintain. I wondered today whether it is really worth it for me to maintain a wiki, when some of its features could just as well be accessed via google.docs. Wiki is also something that needs support from a group of people to be really worthwhile. Unless many people are committed to adding and updating a wiki, it might be a bit too costly to maintain overall.
I still have hopes for the wiki, but I think I am going to wait until I have all my desired content posted before I can really play around with it.
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