Weaving and Wrapping...and a bit of Waving, too, I suppose.

Weaving
I've collected a lot of information about the couple of books I've chosen to focus on for the scope of this project. The majority of the information has been for Odd and the Frost Giants, though, and it has become the centerpiece.

I have a pile of books with bookmarks and post-it notes sticking out here and there, so that I can keep track of where important information is. As I was going along, I began to wish I had some note cards to go back and keep track of my information like we did in high school (however, that ended up needing a TON of cards, and I wasn't ready to sort through all those). For websites, I bookmarked relevant pages with Delicious, and highlighted key lines that I could use, and that would be useful for other people looking at my information.

My KEY organization has been keeping the stories separated so that I'm not sending people to information about the Norse when they need to read about a cemetery.

I've also posted some of my most exciting breakthroughs here, and as I think about it, I believe I managed to combine Wiggling and Weaving together. Both deal with working through the information gathered. In The Blue Book, Wiggling is described as looking for ideas in your gathered information and Weaving focuses on organizing those ideas (54).

Wrapping
How can this be used? My best thought is to use this information as a reader's aide, which is why I'm creating the website as a collection of the stories I've found. It will convey my ideas because it will consist of the summaries I write and the stories I've found most relevant to the books themselves. It will provide my interpretation of the myths and Gaiman's work, but also provide ways for readers to explore their own ideas and find even more information about the myths.

Waving
I jumped back and forth with how to create my final product to share with the world. At one point I considered sticking to the blog because I could tag the entries with the key points. This would provide a way for users to see the connections between the myths and stories, but I wouldn't be able to organize things quite the way I wanted to. I finally chose to use Weebly because it let me set up pages the way I wanted, and also gave me ways to include images and other details I feel are important to understanding the novels.

I do think this information will be useful to others. When we read Odd and the Frost Giants for one of my other classes, a lot of questions arose because of the references Gaiman made to the Norse myths without providing any other information. I finally looked up and summarized one of the most vague references he made, but there are still many others that could have used clarification or additional details.

I have posted the link in another entry, however, here it is again, though content is still being added and organized.

Cited: 
Callison, Daniel, and Leslie Preddy. The Blue Book on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction, and Literacy. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. Print.