Draper,+Laura

=Contributions=

Content Contributions:
1. November 5 2006- Added content Narrowcasting 2. Novmeber 5 2006- Added content Ownership Patterns 3. November 6 2006- Added content Cartoons 4. November 7 2006- Added content Hard 5. November 7 2006- Added content Trance 6. November 13 2006- Added content and citation Goa 7. November 16 2006- Added content Paul Oakenfold 8. November 16 2006- Added content Benny Benassi 9. December 7 2006- Began, added content and picture Tiesto 8. December 8 2006- Added content Tiesto

Community Edits
1. October 5th 2006- Edited grammatical errors Culture Jamming 2. October 5th 2006- Edited grammatical errors Deep Analysis 3. October 19th 2006- Edited grammatical errors Rick Geary 4. October 22 2006- Edited grammatical errors Deep Analysis 5. October 22 2006- Edited grammatical errors Neil Gaiman 6. October 22 2006- Edited grammatical errors Independent Film 7. October 22 2006- Edited grammatical errors Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez 8. Ocotber 24 2006- Edited grammatical errors Manga 9. October 24 2006- Edited grammatical errors Mass Production and Mass Distribution 10. October 26 2006- Edited grammatical errors Subliminal Advertising 11. November 2 2006- Edited grammatical errors Photojournalism 12. November 3 2006- Edited grammatical errors, added headings, changed font History of Hip-Hop 13. November 3 2006- Edited grammatical errors Ron English 14. November 5 2006- Edited grammatical errors Hockey 15. November 5 2006- Edited grammatical errors Billboards 16. November 6 2006- Edited grammatical errors and added horizontal lines Mass Production and Mass Distribution 17. November 7 2006- Added link Genre 18. November 7 2006- Added image Rick Geary 19. Novermber 9 2006- Edited format of page Moore, Alan 20. November 9 2006- Added image Spiegelman, Art 21. November 13 2006- Edited grammatical error, added external link History of Hip-Hop 22. November 13 2006- Added external links Spiegelman, Art 23. November 13 2006- Added external links Rick Geary 24. November 13 2006- Added external links Neil Gaiman 25. November 13 2006- Added external links Trudeau-Garry 26. November 14 2006- Linked, added image and heading Da Rude 27. November 14 2006- Linked, added image and heading Paul Oakenfold 28. November 16 2006- Added citations Benny Benassi 29. November 16 2006- Edited heading Ferry Corsten 30. December 7 2006 - Edited grammatical and spelling errors Portuguese fado,folk music

Question One:
I believe that the ideas of wikis is a great one; the format allows our entire class to work together collaboratively to make a cohesive project. I was in CCT205 last year, and I wasn't very confident with wikis. Since then my confidence and knowledge of wikispaces has improved greatly. Regretfully I did not contribute to the CCT205 wikispace as much as I would have liked to or should have. I'm hoping to change that this time around. By spending more time with wikis and with assistance of my classmates I have become must more confident in how it all works. Because of this, I have very high expectations in regards to my contributions towards the wiki this semester. I plan to thoroughily research my 500-700 word contributions, documenting all sources, as well as add as many external links as much as I can. Visual features are also important, and I feel I have become more familar with the functions of the wiki such as adding external links, edited pages, adding pictures etc, all of which were lacking from my posts last year. This will allow me to be a better contributer this time around.

Question Two:
Editing posts is something I quite enjoy, as I am used to editing content in my professional writing classes. When it comes to selecting posts to edit I usually just look at the table of contents and select a topic randomly. Once I click on the post I like to read the post throughily. After I've read the post and have detected content which is in need of modifying, I then go and edit the content. Sometimes I find a posts to be well edited in respect to grammatical errors. If this is the case, I check if any images, or external links can be added. I then proceed to search various academic websites to look for links and images and add them to the post. Frequently I find many of the posts are well edited in regards to grammatical errors, because of this I've found myself lately contributing more towards the visual aspects i.e images, horizontal lines, titles etc.

My posting process is a slightly different from my editing process. When I am adding content to a post, I normally like to look for a topic that I am keen on, or have some sort of background knowledge about. When starting a brand new post I usually like to refer to some of CCIT text books from year one and year two for ideas. I my old CCIT text books great resources of information as they have a number of topics to choose from and are easy to cite.

When it comes to adding, editing or re-arranging others people's work I try my absolute best to avoid deleting someone's original content. Frankly I feel that if an individual has taken the time to post content, then it has the right to stay up there. Under certain circumstances where it is necessary to delete another student's work I still attempt to keep as much of the original content as possible. Furthermore, I think that adding is a great idea as it allows students the ability to add their own views and perspectives on a particular topic, and also allows for pages to look more visually presentable.

Sometimes, but not very often I will go and check my own postings for edits. Fortunately I haven't come across a situation where my work has been entirely deleted. I know that if I did ever encounter a situation where my work was deleted I wouldn't be too happy because contributing to the wiki involves time and effort which can't really be acknowledged if it's deleted.

Question Three:
One challenge I came across while working on the CCT300 class wiki as well as my CCT300 group project wiki was formatting url’s when citing my references. I discovered that when copying and pasting the link (especially if it’s a long link) the page you are working on extends quite a bit horizontally, not only affecting the link you have just copy and pasted, but the content above your citation. Luckily my friend showed me how to easily fix the problem using the text editor feature.

Participating in the CCT300 wiki allowed me to research, contribute and edit topics which interest me. One topic I really enjoyed working on was the Trance page as well as its subgenres which I added to. It was also nice to see that there are other students in the class who have the same interests in Trance and its sub genres as I do. Another aspect of the CCT300 wiki which proved to be beneficial was learning to use the text editing feature. Once I started using the text editor I found it easy to get the hang of, and even used it to edit my group wiki in CCT333 which helped the visual appearance of my group’s page.

After being apart of quite a few wikis already, I feel that the best wikis are the ones which do not place constraints in reference to selecting topics. I like the idea of students being free to write on any topic they please. This way the wiki has a more diverse range of topics, which more often contain greater detail in comparison to wikis which are more academic related and constraining.

As for the course itself, I enjoyed what Professor Jones and Dave Gelb brought to the classroom experience. I found the lectures and tutorials both entertaining and interesting. My favorite areas the course covered would have to be the lecture regarding investigative reporting and biases. I found this extremely useful as it is related to the field of Public Relations which I hope to someday get into.