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toc =OLIVIA MAKINSON'S PORTFOLIO=

Joint-Wiki
The above wiki page was made about the hip joint. My partner, Kourtney and I were assigned to do our wiki on the hip. The goal of this page was not to inform just anyone, but to inform a 6th grade class. Being kids at heart ourselves, we saw no problem with this at all. Our use of many colors, graphics and even a video is sure to keep any 6th grader interested.

The joints wiki was the first project we did with a partner. In our group, Kourtney and I shared the workload equally and came out with a page that satisfied us both.

Upon originally deciding to make our page colorful, we stumbled upon the problem of having no clue how to exactly add color. We weren't the only ones trying to figure it out; Mr. Orr told us he too had looked for a way but there wasn't one. Well, if you know anything about Kourtney and I, it's that being told we can't do anything fuels us to prove people wrong. Spending some time exploring every possible way, we succeeded in finding a way to media type="custom" key="419097" media type="custom" key="419099" width="99" height="99" media type="custom" key="419101". Finding the color was probably the media type="custom" key="419105" of that project just because it proved that we could accomplish anything we truly set our minds too. It may not come across as a big acheivement, but doing something you were told wouldn't work is the best motivation.

The wiki page featured above was the very first wiki of the year. Our groups were assigned, as was our subject matter. The goal of this wiki was to create an overall combined wiki featuring different medical instruments. This way, each group became experts on their assigned piece of medical equipment. This way we became the teachers for the other groups and them the teachers for us.

I think this was a good assignment to start the year with. We were all just trying to get a handle on how to work a wiki and how to make it our own. In assigned groups, we also worked with people we might not have been very close with. In the case of my group, I didn't know either of the students I was assigned to work with.

Conclusion
=SECOND SEMESTER! =

=  =  Yes, yes, it's that time of year again. Break out the computers and dust off those old blogs, it's time for our anatomy final: our portfolio. We've learned even more since last time and this wikki will continue to shortly guide you what it took us an entire semester to learn.

== Muscle History  ==

Nervous System Wiki
The above wiki concerns the nervous system.In partners, we chose our topics from a list Mr. Orr gave us. I didn't hesitate to choose Huntington's Disease. My dad's best friend suffers from Huntington's Disease and I really saw this as an opportunity to further educate myself on the subject, and put it in a way that my classmates could understand as well. It's a serious and heart breaking disease and hopefully by making more people aware, a cure will be more likely to be found. I'm not saying my wiki is going to save a life, but knowledge is a very important key to helping reduce any disease.

[|Whole New Mind Blog]
I have to admit, I completely love blogs. I think the idea of having all of us interact with blogs was absolute genius on Mr. Orr's part. Kudos for that one. This was a blog I particularly liked. Not only was I writing about the mixture of left and right brain, but I got to use a mixture of left and right brain, just proving my point that the two constantly have to work in harmony with one another. Nobody is 100% one way. Life would be incomplete if we only dealt with our left brain or our right, it would limit the person we are meant to be. Our brain has developed in a way so that when they work together, our full potential can be reached. I'm not a left. I'm not a right. I'm a complete person, wokring with both.

[|Steroids Blog]
Steroids. Sure, we make beaver tranquilizer jokes every once in a while and we see the big investigation in Major League Baseball, but steroids don't apply as much to our lives. Still, the blog on this helped me to see what other people value steroids. I wrote my blog purely from my standpoint as a teenage girl. Steroids would never really apply to me because I can't find a gain in steroids. They don't have much of a desired effect on women and the reasons some women claimed for using them didn't make too much sense to me. But hey, it's your body, not mine.

Final Reflection
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