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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.   

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.   

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.  

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.