Active Reading

At a first glance the wiki may seem a little overwhelming, in my experience I had never had to depend so much on technology to do my homework. It is just a matter of getting comfortable with the webpage and all the gadgets you can incorporate into your reading. Being so involved with every aspect of the passage is certainly a good thing, it leaves no doubt about anything that if you might have been reading on a textbook you would have overlooked as being insignificant; with the wiki there are no insignificant doubts because it is very easy to put a link on that quote or word that could have made the passage more understandable if there was some background on it.
My English teacher in my sophomore year of high school introduced us to active reading. We had to color code “I Have a Dream” using all the rhetorical devices that we knew; she also encouraged us to put footnotes on the words that we had difficulty with, it wasn’t until my junior year that I found myself color coding absolutely every book and A.P passages that I read. I find that the more involved you are with the passage, whether it is making personal notes on the margins, or highlighting certain phrases or what we have been introduced to in this class has a better impact on your learning and understanding of the reading.
Even though many people have complained about the wiki being too confusing or a hassle, it is definately much more efficient, not to mention time saving. The internet has globally been praised as being the number one source of research and containing a vast variety of sources so it is having a huge advantage of the resources that we could use into having a better understanding of the readings. This liberty of choice can also challenge our perception of what a reliable source is and what is not; for the same reasons that the internet is so big anyone can create a webpage posting information on anything they like whether they are professionally adequate or not. It is our responsibility into what information we choose to use as a reliable resource.
Instead of linking a word or phrase into another websites the easiest way to apply the concepts learned by using the wiki into a textbook reading is simply to put footnotes and circle any word that we might not understand and put a synonym on the margin.