Secareanu,+Madi

The wiki is a new concept for me. I can’t say that I am enthusiastic about the wiki assignment but I might change my mind as I get going. As a learning environment it seems like a great idea since many things might be introduced, or elaborated on. We can learn a lot by collaborating on topics. It seems to be a great contemporary way of learning since the Internet is a great place for community building. I have just never been apart ofthis type of internet community so I am a bit thrown off. The idea is foreign. I do not know how and where to start, what to say, or do, how much to do and how to do it.
 * //What do you think/feel about this collaborative learning environment ?//**

Honestly I am not excited for this project, but I’m sure that has a lot to do with the fact that I have never used or made a wiki before. I hope to become a bit more enthusiastic about it, to collaborate and add things as much as I can. Trouble is finding the interest, hopefully I will. I think it is the wiki itself that is scaring me a bit, not doing the content. I think I would be more comfortable with handing in assignments; I would probably get them done with more urgency. I hope that I become interested in the idea of the wiki. I hope that I will add some interesting things once I get going.
 * //What are your expectations for yourself ?//**

I found myself contributing to topics i was interested in, mostly on music. Or I found myself contributing to topics relating to other coarses i have taken with in the CCIT and VCC programs, as well as Fine Art History.
 * //How do you choose which postings to contribute or change? What do you look for?//**

I found myself mostly adding things to people's work rather than edditing or re-arranging what people have already done.I find that it is a great way to help make someone's work better. Since the enviroment is based on community building i think it is great. that is unless something goes horrably wrong and someone sabatoges somebody else's work. It is important to respect eachother's work when adding, editing or re-arranging something that is not your own.
 * //What are your thoughts on adding, editing or re-arranging other people's work?//**

I do, i became more and more interested in the idea of the wiki and i did regularly begin to check my posting.Some has edited things on my page and organized it. No one has added any significant paragraphs to my page ao i havn't gotten the chance to have a clear stance on my feelings regarding someone changing or adding to my work. As for the little edits, typos,table of contents, that others have put up I am glad they did!
 * //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://**
I feel that my biggest challange an limitation was trying to find the time to look through other students wiki, do some research and add content. i wish i had more time to put more work into the wiki, from the community building standpoint. Another challange i experienced was someone, i guess, had accidentaly deleted my main contribution page from the table of contents and since i knew little about the wiki i assumed my page was completely deleted all together, but it all obvously worked out i found my page and just re-linked it.
 * Challenges or limitations you experienced while working collaboratively on wiki?**

Reflecting on the wiki assignment at the end of term i think the biggest advantage is the sheer amount of information on the different topics and genres that became available to us. I think some of us were introduced to knew genres or we learned more about the genres we were already aware of. The wiki offers a better enviroment to connect to other students, I think, than many other course websites. It gives everyone a chance to collaborate together and to help eachotehr out as in the case of the final test review.
 * Advantages or benefits from participating in this wiki?**

I enjoyed the course very much i think the topics covered are all very interesting and i like how different perspectives were given. So many courses offer biased analysis and it was refreshing to be apart of something different in CCT300. The readings for the most part were interesting and i like how along with theory we used current examples, who knew John Stewart on Crossfire would end up as an example in lecture, it definitly kept everything fun and kept my attention throughout the course! The "textbooks" by Scott McCloud were also refreshing, it was nice to see such interesting information presented in a sort of "reinvented" textbook, i wish more courses would find alternatives to the traditional books they use! The lectures were to the point most often and Prof.Jones really does stress that we understand and apply what he teaches as opposed to just throwing facts and definitions at us that we would probably forget by the end of December! The fact that we were not given much instruction in terms of the major assignment and the final test was a bit stressfull, but i could see how that helps us: we are free to be creative, to think for ourselves and challange ourselves, i suppose doing things a certain way for almost three years then all of a sudden a shift occured was a bit difficult to get used to. A suggestion: i would like to have had more marks going into the final test, not knowing marks and not knowing what to expect on the final was very stressfull for me. Overall CCT300 was a great experience!
 * Things about the course you thought worked well and/or suggested improvements?**

**Contributions:**

 * Created page Emo Music
 * Added paragraph to Facebook page about the Newsfeed
 * Added photos to Ska page
 * Added paragraph on print zines to Webzines
 * Added Jacob Riis Photograph to Social Documentation, Document Photography page
 * Added Genres to Radio,Music, Television and Photography on Hierarchy of Media Genres Page
 * Created page on Metamorphosis in Novels Picked by Class. Added image of the graphic novel by Peter Kuper.
 * Added paragraph on Billboard liberation front, and examples of their work on the Billboards page
 * Created page National Media Education Week under Topics of Interest
 * Added list of movies to Comedy Movies page. Wedding Crashers to Police Academy.
 * Added Photographs of Regis and Kelly and Conan O'Brien on Talk Shows page.
 * Small edit on the Final Exam Review Page.
 * Added Paragraph on Our Final Thoughts Page.