Keng+Yuan+Chang

Analysis and Reflection
1. The use of building an online community is a first time experience for me as most of my past learning experiences were incorporating dull and boring materials such as textbooks and lecture notes. This interactive learning environment promotes students to actively participate in building course material instead of having instructors forming strict boundaries of what is to be learnt and what is to be neglected. I expect to add on to the knowledge I have about online communities such as discussion forums and real-time chat spaces. I also look forward to what other students contribute as the semester goes on and hopefully learn a thing or two. As an experienced user, I value the importance of first hand information and open discussion. I will try my best to update my colleagues with the latest information and discuss freely with them topics of hot debate, for example, PS3.

2. I try to add additional information if the current posting is lacking details. I tend not to delete what others have posted as I respect everybody's contribution to the community. If the information is misleading I will attempt to make a note at the bottom instead of erasing what was already there. I regularly check what I have posted and look forward to comments and corrections as I can learn from those mistakes. I wouldn't mind someone editing my postings, as long as they weren't defiling. I will, however, be frustrated if my postings were completely deleted.

3. Throughout the wiki building project, I find the arranging texts and images most frustrating. Wikispace seems to have a fixed template built-in thus preventing users from freely organizing display of pictures and texts. It's also a good idea if wikispace can incorporate a spelling check software like that found on google and yahoo toolbars so users can easily pick up where mistakes are. The advantages of participating in wikispace are that contents can be freely exchanged among classmates. I was able to learn many of the new technologies released throughout the course of the period such as PS3 and Wii. The course worked well with the most popular form of media, internet, as course material can be instantly updates. The fact that students can freely edit FAQs is definitely a plus as students no longer have to visit instructors in office to inquire about course-related issues.

Wikispace Contributions
November 28th : Created Project 3 website. December 7th, 6:00am : Added wikispace project content, NBA to "Hierarchy of Media Genres" December 7th, 6:19am : Added a website to "Interesting Websites". December 7th, 7:26am : Added "Bluetooth" to "Topics of Interest". December 8th, 11:47pm : Edited wikispace project, NBA. December 8th, 11:50pm : Edited "Bluetooth". December 8th, 11:57pm : Edited Analysis & Reflection page.