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Assignment Analysis and Reflection

For the CCT205 Wiki assignment, I started a few page stubs concerning: "ARPANET", "Nude vs. Naked", and "The Gaze" and wrote pages on "Culture Jamming", "MySpace.com", and "Catch27.com". I wrote about topics I understood pretty well from previous CCIT courses I had taken earlier this year and last year as well as online communities I am a member of and know information about. I brainstormed many ideas and topics I was interested in discussing and narrowed it down to a few I had the most background knowledge in. I first wrote out my stubs on what I knew and understood about my topics without having to do any research to get a good, concrete starting point before doing in depth research to expand on my discussions. At first I was confused and was not sure exactly what the purpose of the assignment was or what we were supposed to do since I had no previous experience or background knowledge concerning Wikipedia. I sat down with some friends in tutorial read over the guidelines and discussed what the assignment was asking for. Initially, I was skeptical and nervous about working collaboratively with other students in CC205, especially people I did not know, because I did not want my work or myself to be judged or critiqued badly based on my contributions to the Wiki. However, once I started actually working on my discussions and editing other people’s pages and saw that other people added on and edited my work, I realized that I should not make this assignment a personal issue but rather a helpful learning experience. I would advise future CCIT students to start this project early and to not leave it until the last minute because it will get stressful and frustrating otherwise. A lot of time needs to be spent either brainstorming, outling, or actually writing posts which is why an assignment like this cannot be left until the night before. Editing other people's work and having your own work edited is a good thing. It is meant ot help expand one's understanding of the course material further, therefore, do not take edits personally as bad work contributions to the Wiki. The edits are improvements and expansions of a topic.

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