WikiTravel

Wikitravel’s purpose is to “create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide.” I think it was important to actually keep the pages up to date and correct. Many of the stores and restaurants listed were no longer open for business, and some of the most popular restaurants in town that have opened recently haven’t been added to either page. For my Wikitravel page, I chose to edit the Sleep Hollow and Tarrytown pages. I grew up in Tarrytown, and Sleepy Hollow is the neighboring town, so I felt that these were the two pages I could contribute to most. Over the past few years, many old stores have shut down and new ones have replaced them. For both Wiki pages, particularly Tarrytown, the most editing involved deleting closed down restaurants and stores, and adding new ones that replaced them.

For the Tarrytown page, several restaurants listed were closed, including; Tony’s Pizzeria, Lollipop, Baskin Robbins, and the Chocolate Shop. There were also some establishments that needed to be added included; Subway, Yogurt Le’Crepe, Tarry Tavern, Lubins and Links. Tarrytown was relatively up to date with it’s things to do and see, but I added the annual lighting of the Christmas tree in a local park.

Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown share a zip code and school system, and most of the stores and restaurants are located in Tarrytown’s downtown rather than Sleepy Hollow’s. Visiting either town would usually include sight seeing and “things to do” in Sleepy Hollow, and shopping/eating out in Tarrytown. Although most of the restaurants and stores were up to date in Sleepy Hollow, I did add the recently opened Huddle to the list of restaurants.

 

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What Works

This class has been a style of teaching/learning that I haven’t really experienced before. Using Lynda was helpful for some things, but a lot of the times when I would watch the videos I felt like it was too slow or included too many basic things in it. I also would’ve preferred if we had access to it for longer periods of time because I felt that sometimes when I actually needed it, I didn’t have access to it. I also felt that sometimes the communication in class wasn’t clear enough or maybe made things too overcomplicated. I understand that a lot of the work was independent and put more emphasis on us figuring things out, but some times things as simple as due dates weren’t clear enough for me. I do think that the process blog helps to sort of lay everything out and allows a time for personal reflection on the different projects we’re working on. I think a big help would be more time in class to work on projects and assignments. I feel that a lot of the times in class we talk so much and sometimes get off topic that the information is overwhelming and then when I go back to actually do the work I often get confused or am not sure of what to do for the assignment. I enjoyed this class and the different modes that we used to do projects.