Peer Review Recap 2

For the second essay of this class, writing style rules, we used a different program to peer review. The program we used is from wiki, called wet paint. Personally, I did not like this program at all. I had a lot of technical difficulties from the very beginning with this. I wasn't able to log in, it was telling me I was using the wrong password, or wrong email. The problem was that I was using the correct password. It wouldn't email me my password, and then it would say that I was already logged in with my user name. This took up a lot of time that I could have been using to review people's essays.

I did not like the tools that were available for use to edit the work. I had to constantly go to the toolbar to change the color I wanted to type with, it wouldn't allow me to just type. I wasn't able to cross out sentences the way I was with Google Docs, I had to actually type 'cross this out' which I felt looked sloppy. I don't know if there are tools that allows you to edit papers this way, but I didn't know where they were.

After looking at my essay, I realized that there wasn't much, of any, helpful corrections. I needed to help for this essay, and don't feel like I got the same amount as I did with the first essay. Another thing that I didn't like, was that some people's papers overflowed with comments, I don't understand why, maybe their the popular ones, whatever.

I would suggest using the Google Docs program. It's way more efficient, and productive as well. I felt like it was more intimate with our groups, and so the reviews were much more helpful then they were while using the wiki.