The first three hours of my day were spent exploring FCH's wiki, blogs and games. At first I had a difficult time navigating through the different pages, but I took copious notes while I tried their game, read their comments and blog posts, and surfed the different pages their wiki had to offer. What was interesting about the Globaloria Program at FCH was that all of the students (all female) collaborated together to make one game. I thought this unique collaborative process was inspiring - but what was even more inspiring was what I discovered about the students themselves. After looking through their blogger profiles, I discovered that one of the 17 year old students was a mother, which led me to believe that I was looking at the work of the group of underprivileged female students I had heard about on my first day. Playing their game I discovered that they learned much more than just balancing a budget - they learned to cooperate courteously with one another to create something; learned to be respectful of others ideas and thoughts through the blog and blog comments. It was very cool to see the work of the WWWF making a fundamental difference in a community.
The second part of the day I began to write my formal analysis of the FCH blog, which despite its inspirational appeal, still suffers from technical difficulties. I also spent a good deal of time creating and formatting my projects page, where I hope to post the complete final analysis tomorrow!
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