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For our part of ''The Waste Land'' wiki, we each took a different aspect of the poem. Jerusha looked at music artists and songs inspired by ''The Waste Land'', 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.). 

In her research, Jerusha found that many artists in the music industry have identified with the tone and message of Eliot's poetry, specifically that which is found in ''The Waste Land.'' Though becoming familiar with Wiki took awhile, she found it was a lot of fun once she figured out how to code and embed links and videos into the wiki document. Though this research and this project was different than any that she had previously done, she enjoyed the challenge and the opportunity to explore multimedia aspects of ''The Waste Land'' and the influence it has had across mediums. 

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-catching covers of the poem and other related materials like audiobooks or study guides for the poem. Some of the challenges I faced was basically trying to get HTML to do what I wanted. As it was my first time coding HTML, it was hard to know what I wanted to do and can do so easily on something like Microsoft Word, but not on HTML. This was just formatting things, but it was a bit frustrating because I wanted everything to look neat and coherent. This was quite different than anything I've done in any previous English class, or any class for that matter. As I am not particularly "tech-y," I never thought I could do something like this project. It was really interesting to see what you put in actually appear as a finished project on the page. I also liked seeing everyone's individual projects come together to make one big project. It was interesting to see how everything clicked together pretty well, even though we did our parts mainly individually.   

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 comes to life through different media; it gives the poem a new perspective instead of just reading it in black and white.