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For our part of ''The Waste Land'' wiki, we each took a different aspect of the poem. Jerusha looked at INSERT PROJECT HERE, Justin looked at the Fiona Shaw project found on The Waste Land App, Miranda looked at authors and poetry influenced by Eliot and ''The Waste Land'', Megan looked at the cover art of different versions of the poem, and Brooke looked exclusively at the ''The Waste Land'' app. Since there was already a multimedia page, we integrated our parts into the work previously done by the students before us. Most of us simply added another heading and worked under that section. 

Each of our processes started with searching for media that related to our corresponding topics. Justin and Jerusha both spent time looking for video clips to add to the page. Justin discovered that it is an entirely different process analyzing a video as opposed to analyzing a text. There are so many more aspects of a performance to discuss (camera angles, lighting, set design, performance, etc.). 

Miranda researched authors who were influenced by T.S. Eliot.  She found that so many modernist poets and authors had been influenced by Eliot and especially ''The Waste Land''.  She researched these authors and found out about the different works they had written, as well as their links to Eliot.  She learned that ''The Waste Land'' has been interpreted in so many different ways, but it has a significant meaning to all who read it.  Creating a web page rather than writing a paper allowed for more creativity and personality to be included in the project with the use of pictures, embedding links, video, etc.  Challenges that Miranda faced were mostly due to her lack of computer knowledge, and especially her lack of Mac experience.  But by exploring the wiki and asking lots of questions, she was able to figure everything out and found out that computers can be really fun!  This kind of work is very different from a normal humanities class, seeing how most humanities classes would have papers instead of creating wiki pages.  The researching was similar to a normal humanities class but presenting it on the wiki page made the project much more interesting and fun.  

Megan spent time looking for eye-catchin covers of the poem. 

Brooke's time was mainly spent researching the app. I downloaded the app onto my iPad and spent an extensive amount of time going through the different features of it. As a fairly new reader to The Waste Land, it was very helpful and interesting to me, as that is what the app is designed for. I really enjoyed the different video perspectives on The Waste Land. Watching them truly helped me understand The Waste Land more thoroughly. I also listened to many of the different readings of it. I especially enjoyed comparing the two different T.S. Elliot readings. I learned a lot about not only T.S. Elliot's writing process, but his editor Ezra Pound and the many influences of the poem. I also learned about what a great effect it had on other authors, and even musicians. I had a lot of difficulties originally with the HDML format. It is not a format I'm used to and it took me a while to get comfortable with it. I attempted to load photos from the app but was so far unsuccessful. I had difficulty getting the screenshots from my iPad to properly format onto my computer and onto the Wiki page. I am going to continue to try to load photos. Hopefully it will work before class tomorrow. This work was similar to my other English projects in that it invoked a lot of research and writing. It differed a lot, however, in its format and the type of work I had to do. I really enjoy using my iPad for academic purposes, so I was excited to expand upon that. I wish that i had the app when I did my original reading for class of The Waste Land. I hope to find more such technology to aid my English studies. 

Through these searches, we learned that The Waste Land come to life through different media, and it gives the poem a new perspective, instead of just reading it in black-and-white. It also showed us that there are a lot of different interpretations of this poem, I'LL FINISH LATER!!!

Y'all can change whatever you want on here!!! I just wanted to go ahead and get something down that would look like a cohesive group report. -Megan Grier

* Describe your topic and the process by which you approached it.
* What did you learn about The Waste Land and digital humanities during this project?
* Describe any challenges or problems you faced, and how you overcame them (or not)
* In what ways is this kind of work similar to and different from the "normal" work you do in humanities classes?