Analysis+and+Reflection+Jonathan+Sideroff

Contributions:
My first major contribution was the creation of the P2P page. I wrote extensively on what Peer To Peer was and how it functioned and also provided examples of some P2P programs. I wrote about the legal issues surrounding the use of P2P programs and outlined the laws pertaining to it, but also included a section on how P2P programs are beneficial and how corporations shouldn't target the sotware and shut the programs down, since it is the users who do illegal activies. My second major contribution was on the topic of hacking. I included the difference between hackers an crackers and spoke of the ways in which both types of people operate. I also wrote about the laws concerning hacking and spoke of the laws that had to be modified and laws that had to be created in order to prevent hackers from doing harmful things. Other contributions include minor additions to the topic on video games, faux blogs and edutainment. I also did minor things like fix spelling errors, creating links to other internal wiki pages and other "house keeping" things like that on various pages.

Reflections:
At first it was awkward to get used to the fact that after I wrote an essay, someone can go in and delete what I've wrote and modify my ideas. I don't entirely think changing someone's ideas is a good thing, since there are many viewpoints and sides that can be taken on a particular topic. It is better when entire sections are added in as an "alternate view" section where the authors ideas are not deleted and replaced with someone else's ideas, but are simply added onto in a seperate place. This way it is more of a constructive way of collaboration since readers now have multiple viewpoints to read over and can get a more expansive insight into a particular topic, rather than just being presented with one side of the story. Overall I think it worked out well and we now have an immense amount of information about the course topics. Many of these pages that have been created overalap into other courses as well and it is almost as if all of the knowledge we have gained over the past 2 or 3 years as CCIT students have been dumped into this one wikispace, which is really amazing to see.

For the Future:
As I said above, I think it is always better to add to a page and provide alternate viewpoints instead of simply deleting information you don't agree with and adding your own viewpoint. The whole idea of a wiki space is to collaborate and build upon what others have already written. For future CCIT wiki spaces, I think that this wiki space we have created provides an excellent example if how well they can work. Not only do you have to add information for marks, but you can add in course related information or just interesting facts for other students to view. This is a place to help fellow students and provide for a good learning experience for everyone.