First Day!

Hello! I'm very excited to be working with the World Wide Workshop Foundation this summer! Well, today I spent a good deal of time working on my profile page, where I played around with wiki formatting - and I found a way to get rid of those annoying boxes that sometimes show up on your profile. The dotted boxes are the result of preprogrammed wiki formatting, and are triggered when you hit the space bar before you type something. In order to avoid the boxes, and thus maintain the artistic flow of your profile page, you can add ": " before your text. 

For example, if I wanted to indent the sentence "I have two cats" I would type this code into the edit box:

: I have two cats

which appears as

I have two cats

For larger indentations, add extra ":", leaving a space only after the last one

::::: I have two cats

which appears as

I have two cats

This way, you can create intricate and unique patterns with your text (like I did on my profile page!) without disturbing the rest of your profile. 

The latter part of the day was focused on developing a Facebook group for Globaloria. Jadry and I worked side by side to create a coherent and inviting group so that Globaloria users with Facebook can connect to one another through Facebook, and not just with their own wikis. We spent a lot of time researching the different networks, writing descriptions for each network as well as gathering information to be used in the group description. We also spent a lot of time searching for images and videos, as well as struggling with Facebook applications, as we hoped we could find one that would allow us to upload games directly to our profile pages, and thus give Globaloria participants a chance to share their games via their Facebook pages. We were not successful in finding a working flash program today, but will continue to try in the coming days. We also collaborated on the design of the group - deciding to include general descriptions of the three main networks - MyGlife, MySlife, and MyHlife - under group description as well as creating discussion threads for each of them, allowing all members of the group to participate in discussions and view information on the different networks, even if they do not belong to that particular network. The group is a work in a progress, but already looks good!