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__Contributions:__
For this assignment all the CCIT student were responsible for creating at least one wiki regarding any topic which could be related to CCT 205. So, for my assignment I decide to talk about a current phenomenon known as “phishing”. I found that this assignment was just like a normal essay type assignment, the only difference being that all of the work had to be done and submitted online which is understandable since it is a CCIT class. Apart from my primary subject of phishing, I also created another page for “BitComet”, but since I could not get appropriate data and sources to back my write-up, I decided to make it my second topic and started on a fresh topic. I also edited a few pages on wikispaces, namely “USB”, “iPods”, “Egocasting”, “Sex on the Web”, “Blogs”, “SMS”, “Gmail”, "What is CCIT" and “Digital Photography” and voiced my opinion in "Test 1 Feedback"when I was not working on my main topic, but I felt as though the range of topics and info was so vast and diverse that it was hard at times to find a topic to edit. Personally, I came across many topics that were either so complex and confusing or so dull and simple that I found it absolutely impossible to understand the information. So I stuck to the topics and contributed only to the ones which were comfortable and easy to comprehend. I definitely feel that I could have contributed much more but I was terrified of messing up someone else’s work or inputting something and then being criticized for it. However my very first entry was not an edit or a page but rather a discussion post. The first topic that I came across was called “Canada’s Best Employers”, and I felt the information in that topic was very misleading and so instead of editing it, I contributed by posting a message as an argument which I feel was a god move as it gave my fellow students the opportunity of hearing both sides and not seeing only one side of the story which generally occurs when you edit and over-write somebody’s work. Also unlike some students I did not edit my work 10 - 15 times so I could get 50+ posts as that aims solely on quantity and not quality. I personally tried to complete everything including edits within a decent number of tries and this reflective when you check my posts. Thus in total: I created 2 pages Edited 12 pages (including my own) Posted 1 message.

__Experience:__
I felt as though this assignment was custom created for me. I am not a person who likes answering or interacting in class and this assignment was a comfortable way for me to create, edit and voice my opinions. I have to give major kudos to Professor Jones for coming up with this different way of actually combining interactivity and communication into our assignment. Ofcourse the main aim of this assignment was the 2-3 MLA / APA paper, but he found a creative way to do it. The only issue I had with this assignment was that I felt as though I was an old man who knew nothing about computer as we had so many individuals who were writing excellent papers regarding diverse topics and everytime I tried to edit them or even understand them, I would get lost. I understand there are really brainy minds in our class, but at times that was very intimidating and caused me to withdrawn and keep my opinions to myself.

__Suggestions:__
The only suggestion I have for this is course for next year would be to possibly create rooms based on technical knowledge and information like a beginner, intermediate and expert room. The students can decide what level of information and academic level their posts are and post them in the respective rooms. This will help all the different level of students in various ways. For example, students in the expert level will not have to worry about being understood or misunderstood as all the students reading that particular section will be of the same level and this might help them work harder and publish better work. And this rule applies to all the different levels because if students feel like they are at the same level as others then they can be less conscious about their words and focus more on the quality.