Mistry,+Vina

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Content

 * My pages:**
 * Ethics and Design
 * ipod shuffle


 * Added to:**
 * skype
 * Team work
 * Scannable text

Community
= = -Cleaned up lectures page -Cleaned up table of contents page -Fixed the Navigation, put line under the titles and took out the underline and bold -Fixed spelling in chap 3 notes -Added important text in bright red to home page -Added to pact -Added article to news stand -Added information to design process

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Analysis and Reflection
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**Question 1**
I have had the privilege to use wiki in cct205 for the first time. My initial reaction then was not exactly positive, however I have learned hands-on how this space works and how it enhances our learning process. Wiki not only allows people to contribute individual work, but allows others to view and edit pages according to their personal suggestions. The collaborative writing is very beneficial to people who not only want to contribute but also increase their knowledge on a given topic. I am also using wiki for my cct300 class as well, so by the end of this term I will have even more knowledge and experience using wiki. This time around I really want to be able to manage my time more efficiently. Even though last time I did contribute a lot I still feel that if I started earlier I would have gotten more out of the experience and would have been able to contribute more. So I will expect myself to set a strict schedule and work on wiki as much as possible every week. As an experienced participant I will defiantly aid in the community-building portion and also answer questions that people who have never used this site may have. I am looking forward at using my skills to enhance this space, and learn as much as possible about topics in this class.

**Question 2**
The thing I love about wiki is that I can go through other student’s pages and read, edit and enhance them. When I first start a topic I look through the table of contents and see what has already been completed. This will help me figure out what has not been done. I will either add to a page I find of interest or I will find a topic that I am interested in. I will also go through the course textbook to find interesting topics to conduct research on. This process has helped me conduct extensive research on topics I am interested in. Further, I also enjoy finding topics that I do not have a lot of knowledge on this increases my knowledge in those areas. I also enjoy editing and formatting the pages for aesthetic reasons. This caused me a little concern. I do not want to offend anyone by changing their work, my intentions are only to make the work even better. However, I soon realized that this is the point of having an environment like this. I mean I don’t get offended if students added to my work and if I didn’t like something I still have the option to revert it. On this note I do check my work on a regular basis to see if anyone had destroyed it. I am being a little paranoid as I know the space has documentations on everything that goes through the space. However, I still like visiting my pages to see changes.

**Question 3**
My views on wiki have not really changed in regards to collaborative learning. I have always felt that wiki is a very effective tool for learning purposes. In cct205, the experience was very new to me. I felt that I made a lot of effort in figuring out the things that wiki could do. I found that had this lead me to participate in the experience a lot more. This year I was experienced using the wiki so found that I did not use it as much as I did last year because I knew all the things wiki can do. This year was a little more different, I think a lot of people took cct205 and learned that starting early is the key. I couldn’t emphasize that more to my peers. I think my pages and contributions have enhanced the wikispace quite a bit. I really enjoy working on the space especially because I can work on it anywhere that I get Internet access.

The only thing that was difficult for me was that I was also taking cct300 so I had to manage my time and work on both sites. If I only had one class to work on I think I would have done a lot more work. I felt that if I added to one class I needed to add to the other and it was very time consuming as oppose to last year where I could concentrate on one class and add as much information as possible. I was able to do the little things that I wish I could of done a lot more of this year. Also, another thing that made it difficult is that we had group wikis to work on as well so basically I had four spaces to work on simultaneously. This really added to the pressure and as a result I had to spread my time over these four pages, which I felt I have done substantial amounts of work in considering the circumstances. I mean there is nothing that can be done about this really. I would not change the fact that we have wiki spaces in the group project. I liked that idea because its better then communicating through emails and it allows the groups to be more organized and reduces the paper level. I like using wikis it makes things a lot easier to mange. I just wish there are more interactive features that are included and that it would work on all web browsers.

All in all I liked the experience, I enjoyed the space for studying and overall learning experience. I liked that we were able to go on and print out lecture notes as oppose to having to go through webct, I think this space is a lot more interactive and user friendly. I would recommend it for other classes expect maybe have three separate marks during the year to prevent people from going on last minute and contributing.



Group Project