yuenvivi

October 30 - Major contribution on Photojournalism October 30 - Added information to the paragraph for Online Community November 5 - Created a table of contents for easier navigation for Reality TV and Stereotypes in Media November 9 - Added a paragraph of information to the Vlogs page November 9 - Helped create a table for the Graphic Novels page November 17 - Created a banner (on Photoshop) for the Wikispace Alias page November 28 - Added a link which I think is interesting to the Interesting Websites page December 1 - Added an image to the Shoujo page to provide a feel for what shoujo manga looks like December 1 - Edited the navigation bar to make the text headings appear consistent December 7 - Created a table of contents for the Fashion Magazines page December 8 - Provided examples of Japanese Dramas to the Japanese Drama page; voiced my opinion for Our Final Thoughts; corrected the formatting of the navigation bar for uniform appearance

**//__Analysis and Reflection__//**

 * [[image:icn77.gif]] 1. Saturday, October 21, 2006 [[image:icn77.gif]]**

I have not worked on Wikispace before and this interactive learning environment is totally new to me. During the first few weeks of working around wikispace, I found myself confused because of all the new features available to me. Despite the clean, organized layout of wikispace, it gave me an impression that it was overwhelmed by information. I would have to learn new skills before I could start editing it. I felt uncomfortable to edit anything because I feared that I would click the wrong buttons and delete someone else's work accidentally. However, after a few days of playing around with wikispace, I felt less overwhelmed and was surprised by how effortless it was to edit contents within wikispace. The sandbox was definitely helpful in making me feel more free about editing content. I expect myself to be able to contribute to this virtual community by trying to build upon the work of other students and editing pages to make them look neater. I also look forward to any discovering any new features and tools which I have not yet come across and to improve my wikispace skills throughout the semester.


 * [[image:icn77.gif]] 2. Thursday, November 2, 2006 [[image:icn77.gif]]**

When deciding between which postings to contribute to, I tend to choose pages that I find does not have an adequate amount of content or content which is still weak in quality. However, I choose not to edit pages that I feel the "original author" is still in the phase of frequent editing because I want to see what the him or her is trying to get at before interrupting to express my ideas. I hope that my contribution (e.g. adding paragraphs, changing fonts) will help improve the overall quality of the page. Somtimes I would feel a little uncomfortable editing other people's work because of the fear of lowering the quality of the page or making people feel that i'm "intruding" into their space. I check my wikispace postings every few days to see if there are any alterations made by others by so far no one has altered any of my work yet.

I just checked back on my postings and works and someone has already updated my page (on Photojournalism) with new tables and external links which helps make it easier for others to navigate through my site. The external links let people gain even more understanding on the topic because it takes them to a different page that might have additional information which I have not mentioned on my page. Although there are still relatively little activity happening on my page, I will still continue checking back on it regularly because I am eager to see more edits appear on my page. It's an interesting feeling and experience because I never know what will pop up the next time I check back on it.
 * //Update (November 28)://**


 * [[image:icn77.gif]] 3. Friday, December 8, 2006 [[image:icn77.gif]]**

It has been three months since coming across wikispaces and i must say that it has been an absolute awe-inspiring experience for me. As a collaborative, community-building medium, wikispaces gave me the chance to learn how people can share information (and knowledge) across the internet while working together to improve this online community. From the initial intimidation spawned from wikispaces to today when I am increasingly excited by this dynamic environment, I must say that I have learnt a wide array of community-building and interacting skills along with general and specific knowledge about the CCT300 course.

Despite the various benefits of using wikispaces, there are a number of limitations in terms of its ability to offer a top-notch user experience. The first major limitation included wikispaces' lack of a spell-check feature. There exists to be an abundance of spelling errors within pages since it is more difficult to detect spelling mistakes when working without a spell-checker. In addition, another limitation of wikispaces includes how its inability to provide users with the option of changing font colours. With pages containing often extensive content with lots and lots of words, it would be useful if fonts or headings are in different colours to facilitate the search of information or just to provide users with a more enjoying experience through the freedom of customization.

Finally, the CCT300 course is in my opinion very different from other CCIT courses I have taken in the past. I enjoyed how the course discusses contemporary issues and how they apply to course concepts. The short answers and essay question for the final exam were able to test and reflect our understanding of the course, although the number multiple choice questions could have been increased to ten questions instead of five since each question was worth too much in my opinion. I also suggest the incorporation of other textbooks for the course in order to widen our understandings of course concepts through different types of textbook readings. On the whole, wikispaces has been both an enjoying and rewarding learning experience for me and I am eager to see what impacts wikispaces will be able to bring forward to society and education in the future.