dmitri

Wiki edits/contributions:
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 * Dec 7th: Added some comments at the chatterbox. Added "Pink Day: Feed the Gods" game to the games section. Corrected typo on Wiki Assignment page. Added The Kramer Incident to the table of contents. Finished How to Get Screwed project (my official wiki).
 * Cultural jamming project is ready. Posted a link on the front page (the cash thing).
 * Created How to Get Screwed space. This will be my official Wiki, I'd like to be graded on.
 * Nov 23, 2006: Posted comments on the front page (The Kramer Incident).
 * Info about my Cultural Jamming project
 * Created Chatterbox
 * Fixed heirarchy of media genres (it was a 5 hour battle between me and ridiculus wikispaces visual editor)... I won.
 * Created Record Labels page - unhappy about it, really hope someone will edit it.

Wiki edits/contributions:
1.	This is my first exposure to Wikispaces and collaborative learning environment. My main concern about it is how do those spaces function without being constantly vandalized (especially places like Wikipedia) – I understand that in this course we are encouraged to post and the quality of our work directly affects our grade, but it is not the same for general public on open internet sites. For example, there are always some stupid comments on forums by somebody who just wants to be noticed and praised for being cool/smart/whatever, and then there are just spammers. Even some sites that review posts before allowing them (such as user-submitted articles at Ultimate-Guitar.com) sometime lack any content besides authors just praising themselves.

2.	Choosing postings to contribute: the cct300 wikispace is fairly large - sometimes it is really hard to find something I’d like to contribute, or there are too many to choose from. Usually I choose from the more evident pages (for example, pages with links on the front pages), but mostly I would create my own pages and invite others to contribute.

One of the big projects I’ve done was fixing bugs on “Media Hierarchy” page (wikispaces seem to have a lot of problems with their code) – there I felt that I have contributed in a useful way rather than have messed with somebody else’s work.

The page “Chatterbox” I’ve created was designed to have changes and additions on it constantly, I usually check it at least once a week – and am very pleased with general participation.

3.	Probably the greatest challenge working with Wikispaces was it’s faulty editors and limited control over the media available. Otherwise it has proven to be fairly trouble-free experience.

Participating in this wiki has definitely taught me new things about online communities. Most of the people in the class are really cool (that’s off course, due to them being CCIT students) so it was a rewarding experience communicating with them. I also had fun looking over other’s projects some people have got really good ideas (the group who did thing on water I think was really good). Especially that I couldn’t make to the tutorials, and even if I did I wouldn’t have seen all of the presentations, I could still find most of them here.

I really liked the opportunity to speak-up in class and all the extra material presented (youtube videos and such). Maybe you could encourage forming some sort of discussion groups to keep everyone involved: even thought being able to speak up in class is a great opportunity, not everyone does it, most of the people in class seem to be just too bored to listen to their classmates speak.