Owji+Afsoun


 * Contribution**

Oct 15
 * Added a photo to Manga
 * Added text to "indepndent film"
 * Edited/added text Commercial Advertising

Oct 20th >
 * Edited/added text Commercial Advertising
 * Added to Genres
 * Added to Indpendent Film

Oct 21 >
 * Added photos and links to Photography
 * Added text to Podcasting
 * Created/ added links & photos Trance

Oct 24
 * Added information to Trance

Oct 26th
 * formated and edit it Hierachy Media Genrs

Oct 30
 * added images to cultural jamming
 * created and added info/imges Ron English

November 1
 * added more content to Ron English

November 2
 * added links to Ron English
 * added links to Novels Picked by Class

Nov 3 >
 * modified Table of content
 * added picture to pop culture

Nov 6


 * added content to popualr culture
 * added links to Novels Picked by Class

Nov 11


 * Created ( added images, content, and media) deep dish

Nov 19


 * added video/limks to Paul Oakenfodl

Nov 21


 * created, added ohoto, video, content Armin van buuren

Nov 22


 * created Expressionism, added links, content, pics

Nov 24


 * added links to Trance

Dec 2


 * added content to Goa Trance
 * added links to expressionism

Dec 6

added links to Lec 6 Added links to Lec 10

Analysis & Reflection

 * Part 1**

I have to admit that I greatly appreciated the wiki assignment last year in CCT205. Through Wikispace I can actually witness collaborative learning. Before the wiki assignments I could not really sense the idea of collaborative learning which I used to read in books. As a previous wiki user I find Wikispace a great tool to share knowledge. Last year, I felt a little disappointed with wiki’s formatting options and I even included that in my analysis however I have noticed a lot of improvements. I am pleased to see the new options such as “embed media” or “the sandbox”. Due to shortage of time I was not able to learn how to make tables and table of content. I am looking forward to learn those tools in order to edit and modify the current list for “Hierarchy of Media Genres” which remains very disorganized––but soon it will be subjected to a change. I also like the Alias idea since it helps us and the instructors to easily keep track of our activities.

I expect myself to contribute frequently by adding and editing related content. There are a lot of unrelated topics but they can be used as aids to this and/or other classes. I like to contribute a lot of related information accompanied with visuals and audio. I plan to create one or two stubs where I can add information as well as visuals. So far, I’ve been editing, linking and adding content and visuals to many pages but I haven’t started my main page(s).

I modified pages that interested me and remained relevant in reference to CCT300. So far, I have created two pages. One of them is about Ron English which can be very useful for the cultural jamming assignment and I have linked these two pages. The other one is a music genre which requires a lot more content to be added to it. Majority of pages are well organized but they lack images and deep content. Most of their content is cited from Wikipedia while there are vast amount of sources and information regarding their topic. When editing such pages I try to find sources other than Wikipedia. Only one of my pages has been modified. Someone added more content to it. I was pleased to see it since page modifications don’t occur frequently.
 * Part 2**


 * Part 3**

The main challenge for this assignment was trying to avoid Wikipedia as a source and to find other reliable sources. Wikipedia already exists so it is a pointless task to cite information from Wikipedia and this contradicts the main focus of this assignment. However, many pages referred to Wikipedia as their main source.

Wikispace offers no limitation and that’s the reason why the enthusiasm for Wiki assignments is high. But, the wiki itself still remains limited to few formatting options. Although a lot of improvements have occurred since last year it would be more effective if it offered additional formatting options. For instance, simple formatting tools such as sub-bullets or text alignment can become a bit challenging. Wiki should provide specific options for these tools or allow copy and paste from Microsoft word to wiki without changing the original format. Placing Spelling and Grammar check would be a good idea too. And I am sure they will improve more by next year as they already did compare to last year. The Floating Toolbar was a helpful tool and it didn’t exist last year. It made page edits more consistent and efficient.

In relation to the wiki assignment we were given many interesting choices to write about. However, it is impossible to pick more than a few topics even though publishing a page can be a fun task. With the workload of CCT300 it was a big challenge to participate and modify pages regularly. Although I tried my best there are many pages that I could have contributed to but was unable since there were other assignments required for this class. But in a general sense, the wiki assignment was successful once again and I look forward to using Wikispace again in other CCIT classes and hopefully in non-CCIT courses as well.