Tham,+Christopher


 * Contributions:**
 * __Oct 25__
 * added to "Hierarchy of Media Genres," genre of music (Asian pop >> j-pop, k-pop, c-pop) under "Pop >> International Pop" section.
 * __Oct 26__
 * added to "Hierarchy of Media Genres," genre of film (Asian Cinema >> Jidaigeki, Hong Kong action, Kung Fu, Anime) under "International >> Asian Cinema" section;
 * added to "Animation" (CGI, Traditonal, Stop motion) to Movies section as well.
 * __Nov 02__
 * added a brief synopsis to one of the graphic novels (Metamorphosis) listed in the Class Novels section.
 * __Nov 04__
 * added a page to the "Table of Contents" section, a page and its contents on Hayao Miyazaki.
 * cleaned up the "Table of Contents" section, under the "M" listing and rearranged the list in alphabetical order.
 * added an external link to "The Metamorphosis" page.
 * __Nov 13__
 * added a sentence and a list of other movies in the "Superheroes" movies section//.//
 * __Nov 30__
 * added more content to the Hayao Miyazaki page.
 * __Dec 01__
 * added an article on the "Piracy" page.
 * __Dec 05__
 * added some points in "Magazine" genre regarding magazines and advertsising (in relation to my group culture jamming), including links to our page.
 * __Dec 08__
 * added some Jpop artists in "Jpop" section.

1. This Wiki space is a great way to share ideas, information, and knowledge amongst ourselves; past, current, and future cct300 students, and others that happen to stumble upon this space. I feel using a Wiki space has so much more to offer than Webct. Here, students have creative freedom to express their opinions and ideas, and this space has all the room for that. As a first time user of Wikispaces, I expect myself to take advantage of this space and contribute my ideas for a better learning experience. I will try to answer students' questions and add to a list of grwoing media genres. Hopefully this experience will shift over to future courses that use Wikispaces, where I can take from this and apply it, and contribute and share in a greater way.
 * Analysis and Reflection:**

2. When I decide to change or add information, I do that based on topics that I have knowledge in, or based on topics that interest me. For example, in the "Hierarchy of Media Genres" section I added a few sub genres to the movies and music section -- particularly international and foreign -- because I watch foreign films and listen to foreign music. The great aspect of wikispaces is that any student in this class can add anything they want, and edit the whole space. It is a great opportunity for us to add information on a particular topic that another student had missed. That is the way for community building, to share our knowledge with the class. To edit and re-arrange other students' work keeps the space clean and free of errors, which I think is great. For example, in the "Hierarchy of Media Genres" section, students have been getting rid of unnecessary arrows and bullet points that cluttered the page. The page now looks organized and clean. I trust this class to continue adding and editing this space, including my own postings, that I find it unnecessary to check on a regular basis for alterations done to my postings. I've had a few errors corrected for me and posts rearranged, and I think its great that other students have done that because this whole space belongs to the whole class.

3. There have been a few challenges in working with the wikispace. One of the challenges is finding a genre that I am interested in that other students had already provided information with. Wanting to contribute more was difficult because so much had already been said and I did not want to overlap any existing information. The wikispace work area provided a very limited selection of fonts and colors. The work area should have had the same basic tools as a Word document. The advantages and benefits of the wikispace is seeing the amount of genres that other students have researched and provided. I have stumbled across and read on many different genres that I thought I had no interest in, such as Silent Films or Podcasting. My overall experience with the course has been great. I really like using and browsing the wikispace throughout the course. The Graphic Novel assignment was something different for a course, and it got me a little interested in reading graphic novels and manga. Suggestions for the course? My suggestions have to do with deadlines. Like our culture jamming assignment, setting deadlines in between the actual due date was a good thing. It gave me and my group the incentive to get started on our project. If somehow it can be incorporated within the Wiki Assignment, I think it would save a lot of students the trouble of doing everything the last week.