Basile,+Nick

= = toc =Contributions= Created Topics of Interest heading on the navagation sidebar. October 2nd, 2006 Created Microsoft Zune page under Topics of Interest. October 2nd, 2006 Created Sports Television in Canada. Novmeber 3rd, 2006 Alphabetized the Table of Content page. November 3rd, 2006 Added links to the logos on the Sports Television in Canada page as well as a Table of Contents. November 9th, 2006. Added growing trends to the Sports Television in Canada page, as well as links. November 23rd, 2006 Put in project weights on the Assignment and Tests navigation bar. November 23rd, 2006 Input a video link to Sports Television in Canada that demonstrates a typical broadcast. November 23rd, 2006 Added a personal banner to my Analysis & Reflection page. December 4th, 2006 Created the Final Test Feedback page. December 5th, 2006 Contributed to the Final Test Feedback page. December 8th, 2006 Organized and contributed to the Our Final Thoughts page. December 8th, 2006 Added content to Sitcoms page. December 8th, 2006 Edited and corrected grammar mistakes. Many times.....

=Analysis & Reflection 1=
 * October 31st, 2006**

I really enjoy this collaborative learning environment. I have worked with this type of environment in the past and was amazed by the results. The amount of information created was astonishing and i learned more than i could have on my own. I enjoy the progress that is made throughout the semeser. The wiki began with a limited amount of information but evolved into a class website were a student can see new posts and information pertaining to the tests and projects.

I expect that i will contribute to the maintence and growth of our class wiki. I enjoy going through other students pages and reading, correcting, and building upon them. I also expect that i will add links to subjects that people will find interesting.

I have worked with wiki before and hope to learn more about the different techniques that you can use to create a better learning environment. Im very interested in learning aobut how to change colour formats and linking to outside sources. I would like to see if i can figure out someway to add a spellcheck to the editing process.

I can contribute to the overall atmosphere of the class wikispace. I created the Topics of Interest page that i felt added another dimension to the wiki as it brought in another form for students to learn about technologies that were prevelant to the class.

=Analysis & Reflection 2=
 * November 16th, 2006**

When choosing what to post or contribute i first go through the table of contents page of our class wiki trying to generate or spark ideas. I try to look for topics that have not yet been covered. When changing or altering other peoples work i look for ways that i can improve it. This could be by adding some more information to their subject or simply adding a table of contents to organize the information so it can be easily found.

I was first hesitant of altering others work becuase they worked hard on their contributions and then i go in their and change it on them. But then i changed my attitude towards it as i figure that in order to have the best class wiki we have to alters others work to make it the best it can be.

When I posted my first content page i checked for people updating or altering it but nobody had. Then in the next class i checked the history and found out that the person sitting beside had just altered my work. She appoligized about it but i told not to worry as it had clearified my work and mad i better.

= = =Analysis & Reflection 3= December 8th, 2006

There were no real limitations that i experienced while working on the wiki, we were able to post or edit anything we wanted. Some of the challenges i found was deciding what topic i should write my content pages on. I looked at the course and some of the topics involved in it and i ended up choosing a topic that i have a great interest in. I choose to create a page about sports broadcasting because its a topic that i have great interest in and hope to be involved with sometime in the future.

An benefit about wiki is that it is a collaborative working community and the members are responsible for the gowth and maintenane of the information located on it. If the group as a whole works hard on the space then you can be amazed by the amount of quality information that will appear. Another benefit from using a wiki is that it allows the members to share information about the class for the benefit of the whole. I found the exam review notes/slides on the wiki to be a great help when studying for the test. This meant that some students read the lectures/textbooks and created a study guide and shared it to the rest of us when they normally would not do that. This shows how a wiki can lead to acts of kindness and unselfishness as these individuals could have kept the notes for themselves and let some people struggle on the test. Another benefit i found with the wikispaces is that when you are eiditing a page it automatically saves the page you are working on at certain time intervals. This was very helpful to me as i work on a wireless computer and sometimes i would loose my connection and i feared that the information i wrote would be lost, but it was saved on the system.

I really enjoyed the the lecture style of teh class. The information was presented in an organized manner and was always accompanied by an example from a real life situation. This helped in the understanding of course material because i could always think of an example to remember it by. I also like the responce time that either professor has when it came to emails about questions or concerns. One improvement i would like to see implemented would be the access of the students to view their grades either via a secuerd website or i hate to say it WebCt. Otherwise this was a very interesting and enjoyable course.