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=Timeline and Reflection=

__Timeline__
- **Bolded and Italicized are dates that Major contributions** **were made** -

September
September 13th - joined Wikispaces September 19th - edited homepage by updating students on availability on Textbook September 19th - gave instructions on how to start editting Wikispaces on homepage and Table of Contents September 24th - added to list of cars on Car Fascination page
 * //September 19th//** - added name to Analysis & Reflection and started timeline
 * //September 24th//** - created Network page as an educational page to inform people what a network is and how it works (hope more people will contribute to it as it is not my topic of choice)

October
//October 22nd//** - added "What is Accessibility?", "Steps to Help Everyone Online", and "Accessibility Issues Online" with detailed paragraphs on Accessibility page October 23rd - wrote Reflection 1 on my Analysis and Reflection page October 23rd - created Team Red wikispace for group project
 * //October 22nd// - created my Accessibility page as the Assignment 2 Wikispace topic of choice

November
November 4th - added reference section to Accessibility page with a couple of references November 14th - wrote Reflection 2 on my Analysis and Reflection page

December
December 7th - added table of contents to Memory page December 7th - added image to Attention page December 7th - added more cars to the lists and editted previous listings to group everything correctly in Car Fascination page December 7th - wrote Reflection 3 on my Analysis and Reflection page December 8th - editted the "Accessibility" point in Usability page December 8th - editted, created headings on Attention page December 8th - finalized Reference section with lots of sources in Accessibility page
 * //December 7th//** - editted and added "[|What causes us to Forget]" paragraph to Memory page
 * //December 8th//** - created "Accessibility Issues Offline" paragraph on Accessibility page
 * December 8th** - added "Relevant Examples" with example paragraph to GOMS page
 * //December 8th//** - added [|Car Ergonomics] paragraph to Ergonomics page and added titles to organize page more

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**Reflection 1**
//October 23, 2006//

I think that Wikispaces is a very unique way of getting to know one another as well as expanding our knowledge when everyone contributes towards building it. The expectations that I hope to ahieve for myself is to learn from the contributions on Wiki, as well as share my own knowledge with others through here. I have never used Wiki in another course which is what makes CCT333 unique to others in the way that it offeres a different learning tool. I can contribute towards helping others who are still unfamiliar with Wiki - give them any guidelines or instructions from what I know and have experienced.

Reflection 2
//Nov 14, 2006//

I choose the postings that seem to be of similar interest to my topic. That way it allows me to exand on anything those students have written because my knowledge of those topics are familiar to me and I can apply my knowledge more precisely. I try not to touch pages that have "under contruction", "work in progress" etc because I know those people will be adding more things to their own page, so I wait for them to finish. Its kind of rude to grab someone else's page and hog it with your own information and not allow them the chance to finish it. Not everyone has free time on their hands. I also don't want to rearrange people's work but if I see that they may have placed one topic before one that doesn't allow it to flow, then I will do so just to help them out. If they don't like it, they can always put it back the way they had it before. I try to edit out some grammar and punctuation. I'm still waiting for the end of november, when I'm hoping most people will have finished their topic, therefore I can raid their pages with whatever I know relating to their topic. I also try to link my page to theirs if they mention "accessibility" or anything that is close to that term.

I do check my page for any alterations, it seems the only thing that was altered on my page was my picture, it seems people didn't like my older handicap symbol. And a table of contents was added to help navigate through my page. I approve of that.

Reflection 3
//December 7, 2006//

My views have not changed in regards to collaborative learning from my first reflection. Although I have to say that I was very enthusiastic about this new learning experience because it was something that I've never had to do for a course. The idea of a Wiki is good because it promotes community work by bringing knowledge together in one place. That in turn might place a few problems though...for starters, when someone edits a page and someone else is editting the same page at the same time, when both people go to save it, only one gets saved. This may cause valuable information to become lost as the "production blocking" concept validates that if two people want to say something at the same time, if one goes before the other can, the train of thought for the waiting person can become lost...all part of the 'Bottleneck' theory of attention.

Ideas that I can come up with to improve for the usage of Wiki is that perhaps there are alternative programs to use the "collaborative learning" experience. Web 2.0 is certainly here so there are a lot of other online databases that use the same functions as Wikispaces but perhaps more reliable and user friendly. What I'm trying to say here is that this program might cause somewhat of a Digit Divide between users. This is caused by the fact that Wikispaces works well with Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox. Not everyone may be able to get ahold of these browsers. So, pretty much, Wikispaces violates one of the factors of the Web 2.0 evolution - making it compatible on all applications. Also, it seems that some of the toolbar buttons don't work all of the times, even when used in the reccommended browsers. This is somewhat frustrating especially if I'm trying to get things organized in an aesthetically pleasing manner. I'm not saying that Wikispaces is a horrible application, it still needs work from its creators to fix glitches and perhaps other issues I may not have yet come across.

On a more positive note, Wikispaces is a unique learning experience. It allowed me to learn how to cope with others editting my work, as well as me editting and contributing to theirs. I would definitely suggest to JUST introduce it to students in CCIT and let them play around with it to learn and feel how the Internet is changing. Wikispaces also taught me how fast a community online can grow. I never really payed much attention to growth like this before, coming across and being involved in a Wiki. Overall, Wikispaces has left me with both pros and cons, which leaves me feeling neutral towards this technology.

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