Deepika_AnalysisandReflection

toc = = =//1. My Contributions to the Wikispace//=

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 * **November 28th, 2006****:** started the Silent Films page
 * **November 29th, 2006****:** finished the Silent Films page (added external links, resources, and YouTube video)
 * **December 6th, 2006:** worked on Romance Movies (organized the page, added a table of contents, added an interesting external link, added a small paragraph about the types of movies, added four charts displaying the top 10 movies at the box office, added my sources)
 * **December 6th, 2006:** added a table of contents and organized the subheadings on the Horror Movies page
 * **December 6th, 2006:** added article summaries for lecture 1 readings, and lecture 7 reading on the Online Readings page
 * **December 7th, 2006****:** worked on Comedy Movies (organized the page, added a table of contents)
 * **December 7th, 2006****:** added a page on Fairy Tales
 * **December 7th, 2006****:** worked on Pop Music (organized the page, added a picture, added a 285 word paragraph on the history of pop music, added a table of contents, added my sources)
 * **December 6th/December 7th:** very minor changes to a few pages (adding a table of contents)

=**//2. When first encountering wiki at the beginning of the course.//**=

//**What do you think/feel about this collaborative learning environment?**// I think that this collaborative learning environment is a beneficial thing for everyone. It allows the professor and students of CCT300 to teach each other new things and also learn new things about a variety of different topics. Obviously everyone doesn’t know about everything, so the wikispace allows students to contribute what they //do// know, and learn about what they don’t.

My expectations for myself in regards to the CCT300 wikispace are that I will contribute the knowledge I have about various genres and also learn from my classmates’ postings. In addition I want to learn more about how to use the wikispace and how to include pictures and different coloured text, etc. I expect myself to contribute to the wikispace on a week to week basis rather than last minute.
 * //What are your expectations for yourself?//**

I used the wikispace for CCT205 however I didn’t learn a lot except the very basics. For example I knew how to create new pages, add information to different pages, add links, and edit others’ pages. I want to expand my understanding by being able to do things such as learning to add pictures to pages and learning how to do other things which make the wiki look better and more organized.
 * //Describe what you have previously learned and how you want to expand your understanding.//**

As an experienced participant I will be able to add links to my classmates’ pages about related websites and/or pages, and will be able to edit pages and make them look organized and presentable. I will also be abled to create new pages for differnent topics for my classmates to read and learn from and also add to.
 * //What can you contribute as an expereinced participant?//**

=//3. While working on the wiki.//=

When choosing postings to contribute to or change I usually look for a topic that I am interested in and know something about rather than something I know nothing about. Then, I skim through the information that my classmates have collaborated while thinking of information they might have missed. For any information I add, I always find a source for it so that the information is accurate and not misleading for my classmates.
 * //How do you choose which postings to contribute to or change? What do you look for?//**

I think that being able to add, edit and rearrange other people’s work is a good thing. I think this because when we have a collaboration of the knowledge of different classmates, we have more information and more to learn from. I think being able to change things around also allows us to consider peoples thoughts and points of view and also benefit from their creativity. For example, a classmate may organize my page in a way that I would not have thought of and make it look better and more organized.
 * //What are your thoughts on adding, editing, or re-arranging other people's work?//**

Yes, I do check my own work for alterations. People have sometimes added or re-arranged things, and I haven’t minded at all. I feel like they helped me make my topic look better, allowed me to learn from them, and also showed me a way of doing things that I hadn’t previously thought of.
 * //Do you regularly check your own postings for alterations? Has anyone changed your work and how have you felt about it?//**

=//**4. Afterthoughts**//=

There was really only one challenge/limitation I faced while working collaboratively on the wiki. The challenge for me was that sometimes I did not really like the appearance of a classmate’s page (i.e. that is the pictures and the placement of pictures), but I felt like if I changed it, it would be rude since a classmate put time and effort into it. My solution to this was instead of deleting any pictures, I tried to rearrange them or add more pictures so the page looked more aesthetically pleasing (at least in my point of view).
 * //What are challenges or limitations you experienced while working collaboratively on wiki?//**

One of the benefits from participating in this wiki is that I learned a lot more than last time (in CCT205)! I definitely experimented a lot more since it was not my first time using Wikispaces anymore, and I also figured out that the things that I //thought// would be hard to create on the Wikispace were really //not// that hard. For example, I learned how to add pictures to a page, embed a YouTube video, how to change the overall colour settings of the Wikispace, among other things. One of the significant advantages of participating in this wiki was learning from my classmates. I observed that a lot of my classmates did interesting things with various pages (for example, using a jpg image as a page banner) that I really would never have figured out on my own.
 * //What are the advantages or the benefits from participating in this wiki?//**

There are a few things about this course that I thought worked well. The first was that the tutorials were not pointless; they were informative in relation to our assignments and projects. The second thing that worked well was the Wikispace; I really enjoyed the whole experience of this whole space that was just for our class and we could basically do ANYTHING we wanted on it and with it. Something that the Wikispace was especially useful for was the sharing of the notes for the exam review. A third thing that worked well was the culture jamming projects; I thought they were fun to work on and also very interesting, however the only thing was that I found that in the beginning it took a lot of time and effort to find a good topic that would really work. An additional thing I think worked well, or really appreciated for that matter, was the time and effort spent giving feedback to the groups for the culture jamming project. There is also a suggestion/improvement for the course. I’m not really sure about what I think about the readings; I loved not having to buy a textbook since I saved a lot of money, however when it came down to studying for the exam I found the readings were sometimes all over the place and also it was hard to know what to focus on because there were so many and they were so long.
 * //What are things about the course you thought worked well and/or suggested improvements?//**