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=**Contributions**= Edited the Car Fascination page for grammar and spelling mistakes. October 3rd, 2006 Created Collaborative Software page. November 3rd, 2006 Created WorkBrain & their Total WorkForce Management system. November 23rd, 2006 Created Chapter 29 in the Study Notes section. December 3rd, 2006 Created Chapter 30 in the study Notes Section. December 3rd, 2006 Added personal banner to my Analysis & Reflection Page. December 4th, 2006 Edited grammar and added content to Chapter 3 in the study notes. December 4th, 2006 Posted an Intersting Link. December 4th, 2006 Created Final Test Feedback page. December 5th, 2006 Edited Digital Music Production page and added content. December 8th, 2006 Contributed to the Course Overview page. December 8th, 2006 Edited and corrected grammar mistakes. Many times.....

=**Reflection 1**=


 * October 31st, 2006**

I really enjoy this collaborative learning environment. I have worked with this type of environment in the past and was amazed by the results. The amount of information created was astonishing and i learned more than i could have on my own. I enjoy the progress that is made throughout the semester. I enjoy the speperate project wiki we had to create for our Assignment 3, this is because i was able to put the work of my group on wiki for everyone to see and hopefully helped others make decisions about their own wikis.

I expect that i will contribute to the maintence and growth of our class wiki. I enjoy going through other students pages and reading, correcting, and building upon them. I also expect that i will add links to subjects that people will find interesting.

I have worked with wiki before and hope to learn more about the different techniques that you can use to create a better learning environment. I like the table of contents feature and am currently learning how to use it.

I can contribute to the overall atmosphere of the class wikispace. I created a special interest page on my other class wiki (a student already created this on this wiki) that i felt added another dimension to the wiki as it brought in another form for students to learn about technologies that were prevelant to the class.

=**Reflection 2**=


 * November 14th, 2006**

I choose which postings i was going to contribute by searching the table of contents on the class wiki and looking for topics people have yet to write about. Then i look through course material to give me ideas about subjects that pertian to subjects we talk about in class. When i alter others work I look for content pages that might be small in stature or unorganized, then i would proceed to add or alter the page.

I was a little worried about changing others work because they put a lot of effort into creating their content pages and i didn't want them to be upset with me. This changed however, I realized that in order to create a successful wikispace you have to alter and improve on others work.

I regular check my contributions to see if anyone improved upon them. I originally felt a little upset when someone would come and change my work because i was thinking that my pages where of a lower quality. I changed this mentality when i began to alter other peoples work and realized that it was best for the class as a whole if people altered and improved upon my work.

=Reflection 3=


 * December 8th, 2006**

My views have not really changed in regards to how I feel about participating in the class wiki. I really enjoyed the experience of particpating in a collaborative learning environment with my fellow students. I believe my contributions helped the growth of the wiki becuase i created some pages such as the Test Feedback page that created a lot of conversation from my peers. At first i was a little hesitant about about creating my content pages because i did not want my classmates to think the work was bad or not relevant to CCT333, but i got over this feeling and was able to create content pages that could possibly teach people things they did not know before.

I would like to able to talk to the members of the wiki page though a instant messaging service. I believe that this would help the class gow as a community and encourage people to participate more on the wiki then they would have otherwise. I would also like to see a spellcheck feature added to the edit page. I believe this would benefit all members in a wiki because they would not have worry about grammar or spelling mistakes but simply concentrate on the contribution or maintenance the wiki. I believe that a wiki would be an excellent idea to have as a course page with every class in university. It is a way to meet people, share information, and receive up to date information concerning issues with the class.

I really enjoyed using the wiki for the major assignment in the course. It helped to reduce communication problems that are faced when you work in a group environment. It also gave us a form where we could all meet and discuss issues about the project. The wiki was also a perfect place to see all the contributions of your fellow groupmembers as you could visually what they had done and when.