Reflection+and+Analysis

__Summary of Contributions__
For the first CCT205 assignment, all the students have to contribute to a Wikispace being setup up specifically for this assignment. As for the content part of this assignment, I have managed to complete two academic essays that are related to the core theory of this course. The first essay talks about the advancement in digitization, which leads to more and more copyright infringement cases associated with it. The second essay is about the affect of newly developed communication tools on copyright law. I have also written another academic essay that responds to the topic on fair use and fair dealing written by another classmate, because I think the original content needs to provide more information. I have also participated in the current issues in the news section, in which I have posted some news articles that are related to the theories introduced in this course, and made some comments on it as well. I have also provided feedback on test 1 and on other general discussions. I have also posted some cartoons and quotes in the food for thought section. As for lab guides section, I have provided some useful links for Macromedia Flash tutorial and download links as well. As for community maintenance part of this assignment, I have attempted to modify the navigation menu, the interface of the table of contents page and many other pages' interfaces as well. One thing that I realize from editing the structure of this community is that table of contents navigation bar is the best tool to help people to navigate and post information on this Wikispace assignment page, since this site is designed for approximately 160 people. I was actually the first person to put the navigation bar on various pages that are very long and need to use alphabet letter to organize information. As the name list and topic posting get very long, it is always helpful to have a table of content navigation bar within the page to help people to locate information. As an example, student aliases/names is one of the pages that I have added a table of content navigation bar within it, so that people can navigate the name list conveniently, without scrolling down the page to find the right alphabet letter that corresponds to their name. Overall, I think many little contributions such as the navigation bar example, which makes this website more convenient to navigate.

__Reflections and Observations__
I think collaborative writing is a very good way to receive and contribute information. You can contribute the information that someone else doesn't know and vice versa, in which it generates a mutual learning communication tool that I think it's wonderful. This tool also gives you the power to edit those information that aren't correct, in which it prevents other people to receive false information. However, one negative thought about collaborative writing is that other people have the power to delete your information on purpose or accidentally. This happened to me that when one of our classmates edited the table of contents page, and I realized that one of my essay topics got removed from the table of content in his version. I am not sure whether or not if he did this on purpose or accidentally, but this is one of the potential problems associated with collaborative writing format. Since this is collaborative writing, there are so many information out there, in which it makes people confused about which ones are correct and which ones are false. However, if everyone is willing to maintain a healthy environment within this collaborative writing realm, such that people are willing to post correct information and respect other people's work. Then, I think Wikispace will be one of very effective learning tools for online education.

__Suggestions__
For the future CCIT students, I would suggest that it would be a lot more organized if one standard format can be agreed upon posting your own personal essays on Wikispace. I realized that a lot of essay postings are very different in format, in which some people decided to write in double space and some people chose to write in single space. Also, some people choose to put a table of content navigation bar within their essay page and some people don't. As for the future, I think it would be a lot more organized and uniformed to come up with a standard format for posting your essays on Wikispace. I would also suggest that it would be helpful to use color fonts for headings and subtitles so that it stands out from the rest of the text, to make it easier for users to read and navigate. As well as using underline and bold for letters on titles and subtitles for the same purpose of easiness on navigation.

Name: Paul Peng Student Number: 993943961