FCH Wiki Analysis and Research

Today I was able to finish the FCH wiki analysis that I began yesterday - it came to 4-typed pages, but looked shorter when I formatted it to fit on my projects page. As I continued my analysis, I began to see that FCH was a very unique Globaloria participant: there were much fewer students and they did not utilize their wiki nearly as much as many of the other schools. Today's analysis was mainly focused on their blog, and how there was a feeling of community and support found in the blog, and that was not found on the wiki. I also started working on Rebecca's wiki research project, spending about 40 minutes learning the different code that is used to determine how the wiki was used by the students and how active they were with it. We discovered during our phone conversation that many students were uploading .SWF files or .FLA files but were not putting them on their profile or projects page - leading us to create a new column in the excel spreadsheet and a new code to determine how many documents were uploaded by the students. Originally, we only looked at the files we found on their pages, but particularly in the FCH students, who were more disorganized than other participants, we found that the students were more likely to upload and NOT post, than to do both. 

As a side note, I spent a few minutes today creating a profile on takingitglobal.com. We had talked about this website at our internship orientation, and I was eager to spread my internet horizons and learn more about how community is established via the internet.