Yoo,+Michael

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 * Contributions**

- Logos, 3 Branches of Semiotics and the Relation to Logos, Good Logos are all my original works (with Sources and Citations 514 words)
 * Nov 1, 2006** - Completed Wikispaces Analysis and Reflection Part 1
 * Nov 15, 2006** - Completed Wikispaces Analysis and Reflection Part 2
 * Dec 5, 2006** - Completed the Content Portion of Wikispace. Page on Logos with 3 logo examples.
 * Dec 6, 2006** - Completed Wikispaces Analysis and Reflection Part 3
 * Dec 6, 2006** - Added X Men III Movie picture on "Action Movies"
 * Dec 6, 2006** - Added 2pac picture and 1 paragraph on "History of Hip Hop" headline "Tupac the greatest MC ever"
 * Dec 6, 2006** - Added some Horizontal rules, cleaned up my own PAGES, table of contents stuff like that

=Analysis and Reflection //Part 1//= What do you think/feel about this collaborative learning environment?**
 * When first encountering wiki at the beginning of the course...

This is my thrid course using wikispaces. I enjoy the collaborative learning environment because everything that reasonably pertains to the course is available on this site. Lecture notes, general course notes, student and professor opinions are readily available on this site. It allows me to access things at my fingertips. Wikispaces allows the students to help each other whenever things get difficult. They can post questions and anyone can answer them. I think it is a much better idea than WebCT, and WebCT Vista because Wikispaces offers a MUCH better and friendlier user interface. To me, WebCT and Vista respectively confuse me in everyway possible. It appears far to formal for my liking and is not very easy to use.I always walk away with a headache and ask myself why I have to use such a difficult program. Wikispaces in my opinion is the complete opposite of this. It comes off in a very informal fashion, and is very easy and simple to use. I personally enjoy using this space. Almost everything that is needed for this course can be found among the Wikispace.Lectures, definitions, various project outlines are all organized in an efficient and simple manner for retrieval. Also, it allows people to customize whatever they can about their own Wikispaces, and their user interface to make it a much more enjoyable process.

The expectations I have for myself is to build a good Wikispace with solid and concise content. As you have noticed, I have learned from my previous mistakes and I am not doing this assignment last minute as I tend to do all my other work. This is simply an assignment where that cannot be done. I expect to provide knowledge so when people read my postings they will be able to come away with some sort of insight. No matter what kind of feeling they have afterwards, as long as I can get that to happen, I am happy.
 * What are your expectations for yourself ?**

I was introduced to Wikispaces in CCT 205 and CCT 333 and I am all to familiar with the site.However, when doing my assignment for 205 I blitzed it all last minute. That was a terrible mistake. This isn't a project where you can do that. I suffered academically on the collaborative web building, and the on-going process to build the Wikispace. I completely acknowledge these mistakes and I am currently learning from them. I believe I can expand my understanding by viewing other people's posts and comments and reflecting on them, concerning how they can help me in anyway.
 * If you have previously used wiki in another course, then describe what you have previously learned and how you want expand your understanding.**

The things that I can contribute as an experienced participant is to warn other users not to do this assignment at the last minute. I can also offer adding my own definitions and knowledge that is relevant to our course. I feel that I can post my personal notes that I took for studying purposes to help along the collaborative learning process. If anyone wants to ask me any details, or anything in general I am more than happy to be able to assist them in anyway possible.
 * What can you contribute as an experienced participant?**

=Analysis and Reflection **Part 2**= The posting I choose to contribute to are postings that I have a certain interest in and knowledgeable as well. I can effectively write a good posting on something that I am interested in. It won’t sound boring, and it will look like I know what I am talking about. I can also effectively research a topic that I have an interest in. It’ll make the work process a lot easier.
 * How do you choose which postings to contribute or change?**

My thoughts about adding, editing or re-arranging to other people’s work is to take caution not to step on their toes. I read over people’s work a few times to make sure that what I am going to change will help out the overall posting. Whether it’ll help make sense or have a more effective message. If I wanted to delete an entire post because it wasn’t well written, I would ask permission of the user or leave them a message that it could use some improvement. If something didn’t sound factual I would do the same thing. I understand that people take time and effort to create a posting and that I personally do not like to intrude on other people’s work without a legitimate reason. I regularly check my postings. No one has so far made any changes. However, if someone changed my work I would take a careful look at what they changed and see if it helps or hinders my post. If I think it hinders my post I would try to think why the person would want to change my post to make it sound worse. I would also do the same thing if the post helps. I would greatly appreciate either way if they contributed to my post because they took time to make a contribution.
 * What are your thoughts on adding, editing or re-arranging other people's work?**
 * Do you regularly check your own postings for alterations? Has anyone changed your work and how have you felt about it?**

=Analysis and Reflection Part 3= The challenges I found working on the wiki is the constant “destruction” and “rebuilding” found in our domain. I noticed that people would constantly remove banners/images that students have inserted and replaced them with their own. I realized people only do this to say that they have contributed to the “community building” phase. I strongly believe this is not “community building”. I think this is a complete selfish way to build a community. True community building is adding and changing things that are in dire need of change. When something such as a banner is changed that is clearly overly sufficient is just plain selfishness. I found this to be completely annoying and aggravating. I found the wiki to be completely useful. I could download lecture notes as well as study notes with ease and comfort. I could look up various course related definitions that other students have contributed when I am unsure. I could also view the FAQ’s and see if I share some of the concerns. Since I am a continually learning organism, I can view other people’s work and learn from them in my own way. I can also contribute to what I feel is necessary and helpful. I think the entire use of the wiki worked very well. Besides the useless “tearing and rebuilding” I mentioned earlier, the wiki has developed into a giant piece of information for the taking, (purposes to learn NOT plagiarize). I think the collaborative work effort from everyone was simply amazing. I think the editing portion could use an active spelling and/or grammar checker. I find it difficult to find small mistakes reading the wiki. I also notice a small problem while copying and pasting my posting (from MS Word into the wiki) in terms of font characteristics. I found that when things are bolded/underlined/italicized it is difficult to change them and edit them after they have been pasted into the wiki. Other than that, I have no other suggestions, only a comment to keep up the amazing work.
 * 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**

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