Naumis+Mike

=1. First Thoughts= Using a class wiki is a great way to extend the learning experience and facilitate discussion and participation from class members. It serves most needs of the class just as well as WebCT (or other course tools), sometimes even doing a better job. Displaying grades is probably the only thing a wikispace would not be useful for. It is definately a great learning environment, using one of the most successful learning and sharing tools available on the internet. From my experience from the wiki for CCT205 last year, the course wiki was an excellent and very successful tool for organizing course activities, encouraging participation, and facilitating course discussion.

The only disadvantage I noticed about wikis (other than the fact that it is not ideal for posting grades) is that it takes a lot of organization and cooperation between all users to make it successful. However, in previous classes using the wiki, it was successfully maintained and organized between all students.

=2.= When on the wiki site, I usually surf through some of the pages of interest, and if I see any areas for improvement, errors, or topics I can contribute to I would try to add content in or fix it. I will edit any page, whether it belongs to someon or not, as long as it is a reasonable and valuable addition to the page. I will fix spelling errors, broken links, or other small errors, but I won't alter whole sentences or paragraphs of other people's work. I do check my own work from time to time for any additions or alterations (which there have been none as of this writing), but I am not at all against it. If someone adds to my work or fixes one of my spelling errors, thats perfectly fine. If they completely alter the content or remove significant chunks, then I would probably revert it to the original version, but I trust that will probably not happen.

=3. Final Thoughts= I didn't find too many challenges with the course wiki. Perhaps the only challenge I found was organization. Sometimes some sections were not organized too well, making it hard to find certain things. But overall, most of the wikispace was well organized, and any lack of organization was usually fixed by another student. The wiki had many advantages. It allow students to collaborate and contribute to the course in an online community that can be conveniently accessed at any time from any computer. Thus lots of material is posted that anyone in the class can look up if they have a question or are just interested. I found also that this is a much more social environment compared to other forms on online classroom tools (such as WebCT), resulting in much more activity.

=Log of Edits=

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 * Social Networking Websites - Created the page and added about 570 words of content
 * WebCT - Page was already created but blank. I added a brief description of WebCT as a starting point.
 * Tetrad - Page was already created but blank. I added a brief description of McLuhan's Tetrad model as a starting point.