Analysis+and+Reflection-faiza

This assignment, I felt was the most innovative and interesting in all my courses this year. I hadn’t used it before and started slowly by editing others’ content first. I started pretty early, maybe in the second week to familiarize myself with the assignment and the know-how of a wiki. After editing content and reading up on other peoples’ work, I worked up topics for myself to write about. One thing I found a little disappointing about the project was that there was a bit of a mad rush to claim relevant topics to write about. I found several times that when I found something to write about, someone would have already done it. That was also the most innovative part though, finding out and researching new topics to write about. Also, the fact that the Wiki was being constantly updated made me want to read and write on it more. I found the technical aspects of Wiki easy to handle, like the text, and text box and linking. It was all pretty straightforward. The fact that it was in an educational setting, made the content very useful to link to and read through, for the course generally and especially at midterm time, when everyone was contributing terms and summaries. Editing others’ work was an interesting factor as it gave everyone an opportunity to add something about anyone else’s topic which they might have missed. I created two pages on Computer Mediated Communication and Biometric Technology and a mini page on Flexi-workers. My edited content consisted of adding links to peoples’ pages, linking content to my own pages and adding information on their pages. Basically I tried to add useful information wherever I felt necessary as I loved the idea that we could add and edit to any number of topics, more so than writing on a whole lot of topics with less in depth information. A couple of problems with the assignment were that a lot of people waited till the very end to post a bulk of their information, which I found was not quite fair to those who started early. Also, information was not very well organized as there were multiple topics carrying the same kind of information on one idea, which needed to be compiled or merged into one. My advice to future CCIT students would be to keep up with course readings and start on Wiki early. There is quite a scram for topics, so one should be well read in the course reader and be able to write about the many terms that come up. Also it makes an article a whole lot more useful and interesting when scholarly resources are used to cite, as one is assured of reading meaningful content. Also to keep updating their work frequently as it really helps to be adding links and merging your content with others as an article is interesting to read with your classmates’ topics on it too. Overall I loved the very unique and open style of a Wiki, where we were left to our own devices to come up with educational information and write about it. Maybe for next year each student could be specified their major topics and leave room for editing others’ content, that way they can write about topics they have chosen without worrying about someone else taking it.
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