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=The Wiki Space Experience=

As the assignment of creating a private Wiki space exclusively with only other CCIT students, I found this experience a learning process. Not only a learning process of using the collaborative space itself, but also learning about my fellow peers and what different topics they find interesting and the depth of research they are willing to put in. I have never heard of a Wiki space before this assignment and when I discovered what it was, I thought it was a fascinating idea. Who knew it could bring a community together and even create a new community with collaborative minds. As my own contribution to the site, I researched what I found was interesting in what was discussed in CCT 205. Since this course is about Digital Innovation and Cultural Transformation, I felt that innovation was a key word in this course as well as in the idea of technology itself. I researched a historical timeline of innovations through out time that has led to today's information society. It was amazing to actually research and learn about the most primitive aspects of communication is what drives constant innovation and reinvention. I enjoyed contributing another page of interest which was Gmail and to a few other pages in which I found interesting and have learned a lot just by reading through everyone's topics.

My reflection of this experience would be a greater knowledge of the Wiki realm and space. In the beginning I dreaded this assignment thinking it was another boring essay. Though I found after all the research, you really get into the editing and always finding new interesting things to post on your own page or a peer's page. I do feel that my essay is quite in depth but I made sure to break it up so it can be somewhat of a scan able text and easy to target a specific informational area. I also find visuals are a great aid in wakes and decided to place many in my own. It holds on to an audience’s attention and allows a mental image of what the Wiki is talking about and creates a pleasing aesthetic look to the page. Charts I find were wonderful for some specific pages and provided a quick and informative reading. Overall I truly enjoyed the Wiki experience and have even created a 'just for fun and information' page called Definitions that will hopefully continue to grow even after this assignment is over. It will be a good study guide and allow a better array of vocabulary in future academic papers.

The best suggestions I can give to those in the future that will create Wikis in CCIT would be to listen to Mike Jones. Make sure to at least post your page about 2-3 days, not the very last day that will allow you to add, review, edit and correct. There is always ways to make a page look better and provide better information. The more time you do it in advance is the more time you have to perfect it and allow others to view and add their piece of mind. Another very important suggestion is to always spell check. There seems to be no spell check in Wiki so I personally copy and paste to a program like word and spell check there. Make sure to research a topic you truly enjoy within the field or else you'll most likely end up not having a good experience with Wiki and will most likely procrastinate. Collaborate, edit, add visuals and have fun getting in to it!