Men,+Chandalin

Community building and Maintenance:


 * Contribution:**

added/edited Prophet Mohammad cartoons page Friday October 27, 2006 added table of contents Saturday October 28, 2006 added content to proposal Saturday October 28, 2006 added external links to commercial advertising: Tuesday October 31, 2006 added separation lines to game shows - organization: Thursday November 16, 2006 added table of content to gmail page: Thursday November 16, 2006. added editorial cartoons genre to table of contents and information: Thursday November 23, 2006 added horizontal rule to Prophet Mohammad Cartoons page: Thursday November 23, 2006 added content to Bollywood: Bollywood and Western Crossover section: Friday November 24, 2006 added TIME.com to bibliography to Bollywood page: Saturday November 25, 2006 edited Censorship in Canada section of Prophet Mohammad Cartoons page: Friday December 8, 2006 added celebrity blogger to blogs page: Friday December 8, 2006


 * Analysis Questions:**

1. When first encountering wiki at the beginning of the course. > >
 * What do you think/feel about this collaborative learning environment ?
 * What are your expectations for yourself ?
 * If you have previously used wiki in another course, describe what you have previously learned and how you want to expand your understanding.
 * What can you contribute as an experienced participant?

2. Think about the following and answer to the best of your ability: > >
 * How do you choose which postings to contribute or change? What do you look for?
 * What are your thoughts on adding, editing or re-arranging other people's work?
 * Do you regularly check your own postings for alterations? Has anyone changed your work and how have you felt about it?

As a final reflection for the course, post your thoughts and ideas on:
 * challenges or limitations you experienced while working collaboratively on wiki
 * advantages or benefits from participating in this wiki
 * things about the course you thought worked well and/or suggested improvements


 * Reflection:**

1. The collaborative learning environment creates an environment that allows those who feel uncomfortable in face-to-face communication to contribute to the class virtually. However, as an ongoing project, I sometimes find it tedious to go into the wikis and make an edit every so often. I'm an all-nighter-done-in-one-shot type of person. As a student who is taking 6 courses this winter, i find it difficult to remember to keep contributing to Wikispaces. What I expect of myself is not just to make a contribution that relevant to what is being studied in class, but also to shed new light on topics that have not yet been explored in class, but is still pertinent.

In my experience, I find that the wikispaces are helpful in studying for the exams. In the past CCT205 class, students/classmates were great in including helpful examples, explanations, and definitions. Also, we were able to collaborate on summarizing chapters from the text. I found it to be a very useful study tool. What I can contribute as an experienced wiki user are the visual features such as text separators and table of content.

2. The way in which I choose to contribute or change a posting is by browsing through the table of content for topics that I personally find interesting. I think that adding, editing or re-arranging other people’s works is important in building a collaborative learning environment. However, I think it is inappropriate for others to delete a large portion of someone else’s contribution even if they personally believe the information is incorrect. I have not yet had a chance to regularly check my contribution for any changes yet.

3. The limitations I experienced while working on collaboratively on wiki was the toolbar. Before knowing that there was a floating toolbar option, I had to scroll up each time I had to make the font italic or bold. This became frustrating when trying to edit a page. Another limitation was accidentally leaving a page while still editing it. Luckily, it allowed me to return back as it was left. Another limitation was having to work on 2 wikis at the same time. I found it difficult to remind myself to work on wiki (though the tutorials were reminders enough). The advantages of the wikispace was the help it provided for studying. Also, wikispace allowed for one place to refer to for the syllabus, lecture slides, assignments etc. Personally, I don't think I was as enthusiastic about wikispaces this year compared to last year in 205. The problem might be having to work on wikispaces for 2 classes, or it may have already lost its novelty. I found that the "collaborative" aspect of wikispaces did not work as well as it did last year in 205. I think that the structure of 300 and 333 were too similar. Also, it would be a good idea to outline on the syllabus that marks for assignment 2 and the wiki analysis are ongoing (the 5% marks). I did not check wikispaces frequently so there were times when I went into class only to find out that there was a part of the assignment due that day.

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