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=YanYan Yiu's Analysis & Reflection=

Contributions:

 * September 25** - community building; someone started a blank page on culture jamming so I decided to fill it with content and images
 * October 16** - community building; added content and images to Manga
 * November 14** - second analysis
 * December 05** - added toc and images to Iconic Superheroes and added last analysis
 * December 06** - created page for Osamu Tezuka, included toc, images, contents and sources
 * December 06** - community building; added content for Nintendo Wii
 * December 06** - added third analysis
 * December 07** - added toc to travel writing, underground film, stereotypical views on women, sitcoms, social bookmarkings, TiVo, rpg, and real-time strategy
 * December 07** - added images to TiVo, social networking websites

Analysis:
This isn't my first time on wikispaces. I am familiar with it as I have done this for CCT205 last year. Although I do feel that having to keep posting is kind of an annoyance, nevertheless I find wikispaces really helpful. This collaborative learning environment allows students to input information that can help other students understand the meanings without having to read words that we cannot understand. It is a good way for a class to collect information specifically related to that class. Last year I left posting content and community building kind of last minute and I felt that I could have done more and better. The key is to not procrastinate. I learned that from last year and I hope this year I will act on it as well. I expect myself to contribute more content and build upon my classmates' as well. I've never had a problem with people editing out what I had put in and I also hope it would not offend anyone if I did so as well. I hope I can contribute as much knowledge as I can to share with my class. The only problem might be sourcing since plagiarism is such an issue.
 * September 25**

It's been a couple of weeks since my last post. I said I would not leave it last minute but it seems like I am. Will try to post more =) I realized I've been posting in 300 more than I have for 333. It's harder to keep up with two wikispaces rather than just one like last year. -_- When first encountering wiki at the beginning of the course.
 * October 16**

I have a habit of clicking on "recent changes" and "table of contents" to see what changed had occured and to see whether I can contribute to those topics in the table of contents. I look for ease of posting as in looking for topics that I have knowledge about and know that it won't take half an hour to research on some topic I do not know. Also, I check if the page already has a lot of content; if it does then I check other pages, if it doesnt then I would try to add to it.
 * November 14**

I like the whole community building concept. If gives us the best of wikispace since everyone has knowledge about different things so contributing will only benefit us. I don't think it's a bad thing to change or rearrange the content regardless who posted it up as long as it is correct information and properly posted. I don't mind if people change my work or edit it so I hope people won't mind if I do as well. It's a given that your work will be altered so you should be open about people editing your work.

I admit I do have a habit of checking my posts (only ones that I've started, it would take too long to go check every single edit I've done) to see if people have edited it, If they made proper changes I wouldn't mind, but it would upset me if the person made irrelevant changes. I think a lot of people do check up on their own postings only because they started the topic and would like to see what people have contributed and changed as well.

One thing I'm impressed with is how they save your draft if you haven't done so. I was working on this at someone's house and forgot to save it and I came home to work on it and it asked if I wanted to open the previous unsaved draft. Made me happy =)


 * December 04**

It's the end of the course and I'm glad its over. No more Wikispaces. The fact that this is the third class doing Wikispaces is quite annoying, and this term I had to work on 4 wikispaces. I think I'd work better on it if there was only one. I find myself writing the same things for each course.

Making postings or edits was quite a challenge because the edit box doesn't function properly. It discourages you from building on community. One limitation is probably the fact that someone has already posted information that you wanted to post. Another limitation is that people can't find anything topic to discuss relating to the course so they started creating random posts.

The only benefit I received from participating in wikispaces is that I downloaded the lecture slides. Other than that, there has been no advantage or benefit from participating in this wiki.

I like the whole collaborative community online feature because it does contain a lot of information but at this point, there's too many irrelevant topic in this space. We've all mentioned problems we've had with Wikispaces before but no changes has been made. The editing box has glitches. Lots of it. Whenever we post and format, it doesnt do it according to what we want. When we preview our work it looks fine but when we save it, there's errors. When editing, the work should be able to scroll up so that the edit options will be at the same area for ease of use, instead we always have to scroll back up to format the font.

I enjoyed reading the culture jamming project. It was fun. I wish I had worked harder on it. The textbooks were nice and easy to read.