Analysis+and+Reflection+(ttzzz)

=**Hsiao Wei Ivy Wang's Analysis and Reflection**=


 * __CONTRIBUTION__**
 * 1) Main contribution on Japanese TV Drama - Nov. 23
 * 2) Added a sentence to Anime's page - Dec. 8
 * 3) Edited a few spelling and grammar mistakes, added a sentence, then add and organize referece to Sex and the City page - Dec. 8


 * Community Building and Maintenance**
 * 1) Correcting heading and image alignment on Reinventing Comics page - Dec. 5
 * 2) Provide notes on Reinventing Comics' Introduction and Part 1 - Dec. 5, 6
 * 3) Posted comment on the final exam on Final Test Feedback page - Dec. 8
 * 4) Added graphics to Our Final Thoughts page - Dec. 8

__**REFLECTION**__ Nov. 9 It's quite interesting to build a collaborative space so that everyone can share thier ideas and questions more efficiently. It was exiciting even though it was also somewhat confusing at first. Wikispace was like a new toy/game to me. Although it required a little effort to become familiar with, it was also tempting that once you get started it was difficult to stop before you learn how to play the game. I expect myself to learn better through this collaborative space. It's difficult for people who are more introverted to share ideas, raise questions, and get feedback in class sometime. Wikispace can help overcome this difficulty better than Webct and CCNET that it is more open not limiting everything posted strickly to academic related. This is my first time using wiki and I hope my analysis, reflection, and other content I posted will be helpful to future users. Nov. 11 In choosing which postings to contribute or change, I would opt for ones with topics I am more intersted in. I try to be careful in editing other people's work. Afterall, no body's hard work should be manipulated or wasted easily. This is also why I would regularly check back my own postings. However, perhaps this is not pratical that maybe we should not delete each other's work and just add to it without redundancy. Or perhaps we can delete other's work only if we also specify the reason. I once found my work deleted by other people. But I guess it was because I forgot to reference the source which I find it perfectly reasonable in this case for others to erase what I posted.
 * 1. When first encountering wiki at the beginning of the course:**
 * 2. Posting experience:**

Nov. 14 Also I think it will be very helpful if wiki can incorporate "spell check" feature.

Dec. 7 Even though wiki does not have spell check, users can always first typed their content in Words then copy and paste as mentioned in the tutorial before. What wiki can do to improve however is still to have the editing system better, perhaps more like Words, to make editing experience more enjoyable. On the other hand, I really cannot help stop checking back what I posted specially things like notes. I was afraid that what I posted is not correct for example in terms of spelling. And since there was many things to be covered in the final exam it was trully helpful to see people contributing their notes and summary as well.

Dec. 8 Looking at our class wiki page, I find it difficult to follow along sometimes because people are posting constantly, adding new things and pages in this space. We have so much content in this space that in a sense it's sort of like information overload. Dec. 8 There are many advantages to using wiki as a collaborative community. Participating in wiki allows us to share ideas and information more efficiently. And as I mentioned above this is a great way for shy people to participate and contribute in class. Unlike on Webct and CCNET where posting is mostly text based, people can share images and clips from YouTube on wiki that I think wiki is a much better example of sharing knowledge on Internet to a great extent (which is what Internet's developers intend Internet to do). People can organize table of content through editing navigation to make the space more organized. And I honestly hope that we can make use of wiki in other classes as well especially in CCIT classes therefore my friend from CCT333 and I have recommended wiki to another CCIT professor. Dec. 8 First of all, I find many readings assigned in the class interesting and insightful, especially McCloud's. Secondly, I would like to recommend a film to this course. (The Corporation) The Coporation is an award winning documentary I recently came by in my philosophy course. I find the film stunning and therefore I would like to recommend it as it also relates to topics that we have covered in cct300 such as how corporation uses ads to lure children to fall into consumerism, how two reporters at Fox News were fired because they would not write the false and slanted story that Fox demanded, and other social issues concerning corporation as well. Here's its synopsis, "**THE CORPORATION** explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change" (The Corporation).
 * 3. Final reflection for the course:**
 * 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

__**REFERENCE** The Corporation__. Big Picture Media Corporation. 8 Dec. 2006 < http://www.thecorporation.com/index.php >.