Analysis+and+Reflection+(nataliewarr)

//**Reflections and Observations**// Sept. 28: "Wikipedia is a unique, and enjoyable collaborative tool, where several individuals form a community to produce a free online encyclopedia." This definition was created last year while I used Wikispaces for the course CCT205. During my first experience using Wikispaces, I discovered that the program was **user- friendly, very easy to learn and use, and convenient!!** Since I have experienced Wikipedia in the past, I do not have to spend as much time learning the program, only going over certain aspects to familiarize myself. Therefore I will be able to concentrate and devote more time on the content I am posting. The highly revised content will provide readers with easy to understand information, which they can contemplate and analyze. Others can then post their own understandings, comments, and images etc. on my page, which is the whole purpose of Wikispaces: **a collaborative learning** **environment**. Being an experienced participant, I will also purposely arrange and structure my Wikispace page, **Social Documentary: Document Photography**, in a way that will be convenient for first time users to apply their own knowledge, opinions, comments.

Nov. 14: When deciding on a specific Wikispace page to contribute or change, I usually look for a topic that interests me or that I am familiar with. By choosing a topic that is familiar or of interest to me personally, I know that I will take the time to research and post relevant information. I also look for pages that do not have a lot of information. The lack of information allows me more flexibility in the information I post. When adding to another person's work, I make sure to only post information that will compliment the information that already exists in the page. I will only edit or re-arrange another student's work if I truly feel I could improve the page. I would never want to disrupt or wreck another student's page. I usually check for alterations on my own page, and so far only a couple images have been added. These images correspond with the information posted on my page, and therefore prove to be useful.

Dec. 8: An advantage I experienced while participating in this Wikispace is that other indidviduals in our class added relevant and important information on my pages. An individual added interesting content to my documentary photography page, and a couple students added images to correspond with the different photographers I listed on my social documentary page. This proves that wikispaces can be a learning, collabrative environment where students (or anyone) can add useful and educational knowledge to an existing page. One challenge I experienced while using wikispaces is that due to so much information I never really got to view the whole site. Next time I participate in a Wikispace project I will devote more time in order for me to really explore the site and see what other students are creating. The one thing I enjoyed most about CCT300 was the chance to work with wikispaces once again. I really do believe that Wikispace projects should continue to be included within future CCIT programs. Wikispace knowledge provides students with valuable skills that can be applied later in life for business purposes. Also from an outsiders perspective Wikispaces looks interesting. I found that each time a person outside our class was introduced to Wikispaces they became interested in it and wanted to join.

//**Content and Community Maintenance: Individual Contributions**// Sept. 28: -Created "Analysis and Reflection" page (Divided page into 3 sections: briefly responded to sections) -Added name to Wikispace Alias (nataliewarr). Added an image as well.

Oct. 4: -Created table of content genre page, "Social Documentary: Document Photography." Added some brief information to expand on throughout the course, such as the definition of document photography and some examples of social documentary photographers.

Nov. 2: -Added images to "Social Documentary: Documentary Photography" page. Tried to add one image per photographer in order to display their work. Viewers can analyze and compare the different photographs. -Added "Schedule, Bibliography, and Inspiring Images and Ideas" to "ndj" page

Nov. 9: -Added to "Analysis and Reflection" page: answered question #1

Nov. 14: -Added to "Analysis and Reflection" page: answered question #2 -Added to "Hierarchy of Media Genres": comic, painting, print- making and sculpture (total of examples of genres: 40) -Added to "Elements and Principles of Design" page: definitions of shape, and colour

Nov. 16: -Added to "ndj" page: revised the "Inspiring Images and Ideas" section -Added to "torontobyass" seperate page: explained, discussed, and analyzed Saddam article (November 6, 2006), text and image -Added to "Elements and Principles of Design" page: definition of movement

Nov. 23: -Added to "torontobyass" page: added an image, revised the Saddam article for the Toronto Sun -Added to "Elements and Principles of Design" page: definition of dominance (also added an image to show as an example of dominance)

Nov. 24: -Added to "torontobyass" page: edited mission statement (added definition of denotative and connotative meaning)

Nov. 27: -Added to "torontobyass" page: added David Miller images and culture jamming evidence images, analyzed, wrote, and pasted Miller article

Nov. 28: -Created bibliography page for "torontobyass" -Added to "torontobyass" page: added Grey Cup images and culture jamming evidence images, analyzed, wrote and pasted Grey Cup article

Dec. 1: -Created "Documentary Photography" page: added text and images -Revised "Social Documentary: Documentary Photography" page

Dec. 5: -Linked pages together -Added bibliography to "Elements and Principles of Design" page

Dec. 8: -Responded to last question in "Analysis and Reflection" page -Ensured my work, edits, and pages were ready for marking -Added to Our Final Thoughts: under the user name of **Warr** added a comment