lai_gordon

=Gordon Lai's Analysis and Reflection=

Main Contribution
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 * Major input on Peer-to-peer (P2P) topic. (Approx. 500 words) - November 3, 2006
 * Re-organized sources on Peer-to-peer and added a paragraph - December 8, 2006
 * Added a paragraph on Gmail's privacy policy in Gmail - December 8, 2006

Community Building and Maintenance
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 * Given the Analysis & Reflection page a new organized layout. - September 19
 * Added an anchor bar for easier navigation on Analysis & Reflection. - September 20
 * Re-organizing the names and "hyperlink position" on the Wikispace Alias - October 19
 * Organized pages - "Affordance" and "Interactive Communication" with bullets and Table of Contents - November 3
 * Adding Table of Contents and grammar check for Collaboration Software and Aesthetics page. - November 4
 * Edited and organized the pages -- Activity Theory, Blackberry, - December 8

October 19, 2006
Wikispaces and the concept of a collaborative learning environment isn't anything new to me. While I have CCT300, which is also taught by Prof. Michael Jones with David Gelb, that uses wikispaces. I also have experiences with wikispaces before all that. I created my own space when wikispaces was quite new (which I deleted it). My first impression on the concept was excellent! I really like the idea how people from everywhere around the world can share information that they holds by putting it onto a single website, which can benefits people that are interested. In this course and opportunity for using wikispaces, I expect to learn something new that interest me. As well as adding new knowledge onto the ones that I already knew of. As an experienced participant, I could contribute on helping others where they have difficulties in (such as adding links, making new pages, or other basic things -- which I already have).

November 2, 2006
When using Wikispaces for the assignment, I tend to pick on topics that interests myself for contributing onto the table of content. The same goes for changing or editing as well. With topics that interests me, putting up information and editing it would motivate myself more (compared to the ones that I have no ideas about or the ones that just doesn't attracts me). Upon adding, editing, or even re-arranging other people's work, I tend to be more careful on what I'm doing. I don't want to upset anybody or ruin the information that they posted up. I would ask myself whether the information given were relevant or not. I understand that information might be important for one person and not to another, so I hardly delete anything that are posted up. I do regularly check the postings that I made on the next day, just to see whether new information were added or not. Currently, no one had change any of my works yet, but even if it were to be changed (in a reasonable way), I wouldn't felt angry or anything. Nobody is perfect, besides... I might be able to learn from the changes they added on as well!

December 8, 2006
Looking back on things that I contributed and maintenance on have given me a sense of satisfaction. My views on using wiki in a collaborative learning environment haven't change at all. It is fun, interesting, helpful, and lively! Although it does have/create minor problems sometimes, such as editing at the same time with another person, it is still enjoyable and motivative for me to work in this type of environment. I learn more new things that I have never knew about or have a chance to read about. Therefore, wiki's collaborative learning environment is a positive thing rather than a negative one for myself. There are places where there should be however. It would be nice to see new features such as 'spell check' and etc. Also a fix on the uploading photo function would be nice. There were times that I tried uploading photo and it does not appear on the pages. It was showing on the photo gallery where it shows all the photo, but once I double clicked on it (for placing it on the page) it just show me the file's name. Aside from this minor problem that I have encountered, wiki was very helpful! Especially during test periods! Everybody got together and posted notes that they thought it would be helpful for the coming tests. With this type of collaborating environment, work can be done more quickly, people would enjoy working and studying more, and others could learn effectively as well!