Chan,+Debbie

Contributions

 * note: I did not add every little edit I made, only the main ones. I didn't mention all the grammatical and spelling changes.

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 * 1) Sept 26: Added more genres to the Hierarchy of Media Genres page
 * 2) Nov 13: Main contribution on Drum and Bass
 * 3) Nov 13: Edited Emo Music
 * 4) Nov 16: Added and Editied Heavy Metal Music
 * 5) Nov 29: Edited Anime

Reflection
1. When first encountering wiki at the beginning of the course.

I thoroughly enjoy working on wikispaces because I like seeing what my classmates contribute and their interests. It is an interesting approach to learning in that it is targeted to each individual because each person can click on any topic that they choose to learn more about. My expectations for myself is that I will choose a topic I enjoy to writing on and learn more about other topics in the class. I hope that others will read my contributions and add their own input. From my experience with wikispace in CCT205, I understand that it is beneficial to start as early as possible and this time around I plan on doing so. I also want to read more topics and contribute to various pages. As an experience participant, I am familiar with the toolbar and how wikispaces formats its pages so I can help format the page for optimal readibility.

2. Think about the following and answer to the best of your ability:

I choose to contribute to the postings that interest me or that I am knowledgeable in, otherwise it would be difficult for me to contribute! I also look up my friends' contributions because they often have the same interests as me. Wikis are suppose to be collabrative so I fully support the idea of adding, editing and re-arranging other's work. Otherwise, it would be difficulte for our wiki to grow and evolve into something more useful. It keeps users' on their toes since they know their work being read and will be deleted if incorrect. This course brings up many topics that the majority of people will be familiar with so it is not surprising that various people will have different input on the same topic. Who doesn't watch TV and have an opinion on their favorite genre? I often check my postings for changes because I want to know what others are contributing. If a negative contribution is made, I would most likely message the user to understand their reasoning but this has not happened yet and I hope it does not!

3. As a final reflection for the course, post your thoughts and ideas on:

While working on the wiki, I found that wikis grow exponentially. It only works as more people contribute and edit. A challenge I experienced while working collaboratively is my reluctance to edit other people's work. It sometimes feels like I'm stepping on toes when I go in to rearrange, add and edit out the work of others. A challenge that I had in particular with Wikispaces is their formatting of text. Sometimes it seems very 'buggy' and add extra spaces, bolds random sentences and the number bullets really don't like line spaces. This wiki was very exciting to read because I find the material very interesting and I love finding out what my fellow classmates have to say on the topic. The page on which comics people read for their essay were especially fun to go through and some of the material has intrigued me to read more graphic novels! (Only finished the Dark Knight Returns since then but I'm working on it :) I thoroughly enjoyed this course. One change I would be change is replacing Reinventing Comics with a textbook on another topic, perhaps something about music and television. This way we could learn more about various mass media and ways to analyze and interpret them.