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Contributions
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 * 1) Created Study Notes section in the navigation bar.
 * 1) Added study notes for Chapter 1 in Study Notes section.
 * 2) Created article on Web 2.0
 * 3) Edited stuff on a constant basis
 * 1) Added pictures to other peoples articles
 * 2) Wrote content for [|DNV wiki] and stylized it

**Community Building**
My major community building contributions I would have to say were: >
 * 1) **Creating a study notes section** - I tried to start something by taking the first step and sharing my notes with everyone in hopes that other students would do the same. This started off slow and not too many students participated, but now almost every chapter is covered and it has become a resource for study notes. Here is the current study notes page.
 * 2) **Creating banners/graphics** - By utilizing a skill I allready had, I attempted to set an example and encourage others to peronalize their wiki articles/pages with custom graphics. I mainly did this in the CCT300 wiki and it kind of leaked into the CCT333 wiki.
 * 3) **Edited spelling errors and provided pictures -** Since the first week of our classes wikispace I have been involved in minor edits to the wikispace. I would fix formatting problems, add images, and edit spelling/grammar mistakes frequently. This was not a huge contribution, but over time I think it added up to be one of my main community building contrbutions.

Reflection
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 * 1) When I first encountered Wikispaces I was excited to use it and to see it grow. I thought it was an interesting environment and it was really cool how everything was open to edit and add content to. It gave me a sense of power and responsibility that I had to participate and help improve our wikispace. As for my personal expectations, I set out to try to visit wiki once a day and make edits every other day or so when I got time. I was successful at being an active participant for the most part except when I had midterms and tests. As an experienced participant I can contribute graphic design and making the layout look nice as well as helping stylize other peoples wiki pages. I also know how to edit content and fix errors so I help out as often as I can with that too.
 * 2) I choose to enhance postings which I am somewhat familiar with. I beleive in providing quality information and making quality edits than just editing random things for participation marks. I enjoy editing other peoples works if I have something to add on to or fix minor mistakes. I dont think deleting other peoples content is good but editing it is ok. If you can make it better while keeping the majority of their hard work intact then you are doing a good job. I do check my postings for alterations and people have edited my notes page numerous times but nobody has edited my article yet.
 * 3) I dont think that my views on wiki have changed much. I still think it is a really interesting collaborative learning space. I have found it to be a really interesting and fun experience. It makes keeping up with class easy aswell as with getting lecture notes. I found the wiki to be most helpful in being a source of information in regard's to assignments and course content that would be much harder to get had we not had a class wiki. As far as ideas for improving go, I think I have one:
 * 1) People should practice proper netiquette, maybe be educated more on what it is. I saw people deleting other peoples stuff such as banners and such when I dont think they should have since the stuff they uploaded was not of higher quality. It was a last minute scramble to "participate in the community" and get marks while screwing someone over. This did not happen to me but it just upset me to see someones quality work be replaced by someones last minute attempt to get participation marks.