Christina Stuart’s
wikiHow experienced has been a wild ride for her, and it was definitely
something she would want to do again. There were many ways she had to
communicate for her wiki page, including her photos that were taken, references
and information from another wiki. Along with her own personal experience,
sharing information on the topics in class, managing the project, a step by
step guide on instructions, and communicating with others about a topic.
When
she first started her wikiHow page, it started off with a couple of thoughts
and ideas. She came up three ideas for a wiki page that wasn’t up on the site
yet. All three of the ideas she came up on her own from her own personal experiences.
When she got to class to discuss the three ideas, her classmates and teacher
gave back some feedback on how she can write a 600 word wiki page. They told
her why they would be interested on clicking the page and how it does or
doesn’t draw in attention. The classmates told her which idea they think is
best and would get a lot of views. By communicating with the classmates about
each of her topics, made it easier to decide which topic she would be choosing
for her wikiHow page. She also gave feedback to other students on their wikiHow
page ideas, and believes it made their decision easier to make by doing so.When she finally picked out the topic for the wiki page, she had to double check if the idea wasn’t on wikiHow. The topic has to deal with essential oils, so of course there were remedies and recipes dealing with essential oils. But, she made the topic be very specific so that there wouldn’t be a page already on it. She looked up different headache treatments on wikiHow, and also looked up essential oils remedies. None had mentioned on how to cure headaches with an essential oil roller ball. She found ways to treat aches and pains with essential oils, so she thought she could come up with a way to cure headaches for people who are on the go. Here is a link of a wikiHow page on how to apply essential oils, which she used as one of my references for the page.
http://www.wikihow.com/Apply-Essential-Oils
The next step to communicate with her project was to manage it and to make a step by step progress. She had to figure out all of the steps that go into a wiki page such as, ingredients, directions, warnings and tips. She had to do research on where people could buy the ingredients for the roller ball remedy.
She had to come up with her own step by step directions. Instead of looking up directions online, she asked her sister because she knows a lot about essential oils. Christina had to communicate with her to figure out the exact amount of essential oils she needed to make for the roller ball. Her sister told Christina her way of doing this process, so she borrowed her sister’s ideas and came up with the rest on her own.
The next step to communicate with the wikiHow was to take photos of the steps to make the roller ball. She had to plan out what kind of pictures she should take that will match the description of the step. She wrote down all of the steps to make it easier for herself to create photographs for that step. She took clear and simple pictures of the product so people can understand and do on their own. To find out what kind of pictures she should be taking, she looked up several wiki pages on recipes to see how the pictures were taken and how many were on the page. Here is a wiki page that helped her on what kind of pictures to take.
The pictures were very important to communicate in my wiki page, because without them, people wouldn’t know what kind of roller ball to use for the product. With her pictures, people can fully understand what to do when they try it on their own. They can see how she puts the drops into the bottle and see what fractionated coconut oil looks like. With her pictures, people can get a good idea on where to apply the oil on the body. She has a picture of the mixture being applied to a forehead and the back of a neck. You can also see the actual size of the rollerball when she took a picture of it going into a purse.
To help maintain my project Christina had to edit her page on the advanced editing on wikiHow. She had to work on the advanced editing because it was easier to code the page that way. Sometimes, the wiki page wouldn’t save when she clicked on save, so she would lose her work often. A way to prevent her from starting all over again was to save her work on a separate word document. That way when all of my work didn’t save, she could open up the word document and copy and paste it back onto the wiki page. When she copied and pasted the wiki page onto my word document, she would also add in the coding so she knew where which codes go where on the page. However, when her page didn’t get saved, her pictures would be gone as well. Therefore she had to go back and upload all of her pictures back onto the page. For future reference, everyone who makes a wiki page should save all of their work on a separate word document because the wikiHow site isn’t very dependable on saving your work.
Christina
has learned a lot about what goes into making a wiki page for this project and
she knows a lot more about how important it is to always have a backup file in
hand. She hopes her wiki page is well communicated to people who are looking at
the page and hopes people can find it easy to follow along the guidelines.
http://www.wikihow.com/Treat-a-Headache-with-an-Essential-Oils-Roller-Ball
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