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=Contributions=

November 3, 2006 1. Added more information to the blog site

November 5, 2006 2. Added a paragraph "Effects of Reality Television on Society" to Reality TV page and added to the list of Reality shows

November 8, 2006 3. Created "Information Privacy"topic in the Critical Media Issues Section in the Topics of Interest. As well created a page for Information privacy and added information to that topic

November 9, 2006 4. Created a page on Newspapers for the media genre of interest for analysis. Added some information to it but have not completed it yet. 5. Created a timeline for Game shows on the Game Show page

November 11, 2006 6. Added a paragraph to the page that I created on Newspapers

November 13th, 2006 7. Added a new sub topic to Newspapers page

November 14th, 2006 8. Added a paragraph and made edits to the Newspapers page 9. Added to the list of infomercials on the infomercial page

December 7th, 2006 10. Made subtitles, added information and created a bibliography for the Portrayal of Women in Media 11. Made edits and added information on Newspapers 12. Made subtitles and a table of contents for Information Privacy

Content (10%)
Students are encouraged to pick one media genre of interest and develop an analysis of this genre (2-3pp.,approximately 500-700 words). Include references and accurate academic citations when writing your entry. Effective content will provide a robust, factual and complete analysis of the design of a particular media form, including exemplars. You must also contribute to other pages that you didn't explicitly create. If a page on your topic of choice exists already, add to it, don't make a new page on the same topic. This is an integral part of collective learning that is at the heart of wiki.


 * Media Genre of Interest**: Newspapers

=Reflections=

October 26, 2006
This is the first time I'm using wikispaces for a course so I'm still fairly new to this. At first it was difficult to navigate and hard to find things. Eventually after using wikispaces for about 7 weeks now, I do find it easier to use because I've become familiar with how to create pages and links.Using wikispaces is a different approach since I am use to using Web CT vista or blackboard, but however it's still a good site for people to post their work and pages that they've created. It is a good tool because the students can modify the pages and add their own content. I like that we're able to make our contributions and pages we find of interest as opposed to using Webt CT or Blackboard since they're primarily just used for discussion boards or uploading assignments. I think this is a good collaborative learning environment because people are able to provide their own opinions on others work by making their own modifications and also adding on additional information that has not yet been incorporated. I think it is also a good environment where you can learn from because when you have a problem and you post it, not only the professors but students can also provide you answers and suggestions.

November 5, 2006
The postings that I choose to modify or to contribute to depends upon the topic of interest, as well as the amount of information that has already been covered. If I feel that a topic is not complete and there is still information that has not been posted, then I will contribute what I think is relevant to the topic. In terms of modifying and changing one's work, it is dependent on whether or not I agree with the person's outlook and perspective on their topic.

In regards to adding, editing and re-arranging other people's work, I find that it is a good thing to be able to do. The reason being is that not everyone shares the same perspective and everyone is entitled to their own opinion if they do not agree with others. The ability to add and edit other's work is just incorporating your own thoughts into others. I think it is a good thing to be able to add and edit others work but to completely change it and not incorporate any of the original work may be a bit offensive.

I don't usually check my own postings for alterations therefore I wouldn't know if anyone has changed my work. However, if someone made minor edits to my postings or added new information I wouldn't mind because if I didn't cover all aspects of my topic then I think that others should able to add information that they felt that I left out.

**December 7, 2006**
By the end of the term, I found wikispaces really easy to navigate however I did find it was a bit hard to resize images when it came to adding images to our group assignment. As well I did not like how it limited us to not being able to center images, which it did bother me a bit because I usually like things organized in a specific way. I feel that this was a great experience to use wiki to consult questions and concerns regarding any assignments, tests and readings. I think it really worked because people contributed to the wikispaces making it an easy learning environment for us all. I found it really helpful because most times the questions I had were the same questions that other people had and the questions and answers were posted in the question sections. Not only that students contributed information that they thought people would be interested in reading about which is what made wikispaces unique. It did not limit us to anything we could write about which is why I think using wikispaces this term was great in terms of a collaborative learning environment.

Some things that I really enjoyed about the course that worked well was the creative aspect, to have a lot of our work posted on wiki. I think that this allowed us to expand on our thoughts and works from time to time. For example, with our culture jamming project our team members were able to make changes easily by just going onto our page and making those edits as opposed to having to wait to speak to each other or see each other. I think this was an absolute advantage because we could all contribute whenever we had the time and it was accessible.

I also think the reflections aspect of wikispaces is also something I think works well because we can voice our opinion about our troubles, dislikes and likes about the use of wikispaces. All in all, I would say wikispaces definitely helped me a lot throughout the term and I would like to work with wikispaces again in one of my future courses.

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