26 February, 2007

Oof! Trouble with Tables on Wikispaces (HELP!)

Oi vay. The good news, then the not-so-good news:

Good:
  1. In the past two days, the number of high school students in the 1001 Tales workshop has grown, with the addition of Hawaii and Canada to the pre-existent Denver and Seoul, from 107 learners to 131!
  2. I just added the "Peer Feedback Hall of Fame...and Shame" to the HS page (comments welcome).
Not-so-good:
  1. The new additions from Canada and Hawaii to the table was formatted wrong, and it took a good 1.5 hours to re-format. I know wikispaces tables are lame at this point, so here are some tips:
    1. add rows and columns by clicking in a cell and then clicking the formatting arrows that pop up.
    2. new rows are miniscule, but they're there. Tab from the end of a row with data in it to get into the nearly invisible row, and when you start typing it will expand.
    3. copy and paste of columns doesn't work. You have to enter info one cell at a time.
If you find that a table is messed up and you can't fix it, don't save it. Just cancel the edit and try again, using the directions above.

All that negativity aside, it's totally cool that we've grown so much in less than two weeks. Learning is messy :)

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