Chien,+Yuan-Sheng

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Content
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 * Started a new topic on Cell Phones

Community building and maintenance
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 * Contributed a huge paragraph to the topic "console wars" and posted my thoughts under post #3. (updated twice)

Analysis and Reflection
1. When I first heard we were going to use wiki at the beginning of the course, I feel excited because it is a very good learning tool that is away from the usual endless lectures and assignments that profs gave, but instead an online collaborative learning environment where everyone is involved. I was familiar with wiki because I have used it in other CCT course like CCT205 last year. I learned that you can't start working on it at the last minute cause it usually won't work out well, there are just too many things to do. I want to further enhance my knowledge of wiki by playing around with the settings, video clips, and sandbox area. As an experienced user of wiki, I can help other new users to get familiar with the concept behind wiki, and help them in class or outside of class.

2. I look for postings to contribute based on my interests, basically anything that catches my eye and feel that the topic can be further added upon. I understand that the whole point of wiki is for everyone to contribute to each other's work, therefore I have no obligation and will not hestitate to add, edit, or delete parts of other people's work that I feel is necessary and would make it look better. I don't regularly check my own postings for changes, because people can edit many more times after someone else edit it, so I prefer to wait a few weeks until there had been many edits done, then I would check back for alterations. I don't have anything against other people eidting my work, because it's the same idea and concept behind when I edit their work. Everyone is working together to bring the wiki community to a better place, and develop and enhance ideas together while learning at the same time.

3. As working collaboratively on wiki proves, sometimes the topics you want to start on are already taken, and usually it is among the more popular ones. Therefore, you can only add to what they already have, and usually not much you can add because they outlined mostly everything already. On the other hand, there are definitely advantages from participating in this wiki. You can get the fastest response from your questions about anything in the course from your fellow classmates, and also you can learn about many topics through the help of the whole class. I thought the course overall was very good and interesting, and this is the first course that I have taken using a comic as a textbook, thus makes it very interesting to read. Using wikispace for this course definitely worked really well, as mentioned earlier. It is like a chat room where you talk about the course and receive feedback, as well as providing an online learning environment. The project that we did also really helped to raise awareness about culture jamming/social influences. Big thanks to Prof Mike Jones and David Gelb for being very understanding about student issues and situations, and taking the time to try to make this course as fun as possible while getting the point acrossed at the same time.