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Myaad Ahmed's Analysis and Reflection
__**Overall Experience**__ Before this assignment I was unfamiliar with Wiki’s and how exactly they worked, this assignment gives you the experience of collaborative works and how interesting it can be. Many of us are familiar with Wikipedia and don’t think much as to how the information is derived but now many of us can say that there is a lot of work and research involved. The fact that this assignment is collaborative gave the CCIT students a chance to actively work together and put their knowledge acquired from their CCIT courses into effect. I found that many of the topics specified have already been touched on in other courses, so it gave us a chance to put it to use refreshing our memories. I often found myself reading topics merely for pleasure just to educate myself on some of the areas I was interested in. When the assignment was first given there was almost nothing on the pages and now there is hundreds of pages and it was a growing process that happened right before your eyes. The constant improvements only helped the context of the pages and many other students had useful information to add. The one thing I do love about this assignment is the fact that it is a wonderful study guide, all of the topics covered in lecture and in text are in the Wikispace in depth inevitably feeding you information resulting in a good grade. One thing I do wish is once this assignment is complete that the class collectively contributes in keeping it running, so that we can all benefit from the information for future endeveaours with respect to tests and assignments.

I would say my contributions to Wikispace was good I created my own page on America Online (AOL) simply because I am currently a member of AOL and I feel it is a good and very successful internet service provider offering many features that numerous of us rely on daily. Many of us would prefer hotmail or yahoo but America Online is just as efficient. Although, many of us overlook its service. I felt it was more beneficial to my learning experience to add stubs on to many other students’ pages rather than creating more than one Wikipage of my own. The reason for this is that working on more than one topic in length can become very dull to the point where the quality of the work might suffer as appose to researching several topics of interest and adding to others works resulting in a greater depth of knowledge and experience. In regards to community building and maintenance I feel I have contributed in making several relevant links between different pages and also making links to outside sources that were used in the research portion of this assignment. I’ve edited the table of contents page a couple of time and made adjustments to formats and spelling errors. I’ve also participated in general discussion regards to this assignment and Test one. The many pages that I have added portions of information to are Fair Use/Fair Dealing, P2P, Post-Fordism, Google, Facebook, CCIT and Ipod.
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The minor difficulties that I encountered were in terms of the formatting, before I posted my information on my space I had it written out in Microsoft word but the process of cutting and pasting was not very convenient. Often the font or size would differ with a lot of the texts causing me to re-write the information again on the Wikispace. For those interested in an assignment like this it is recommended that you don’t leave the assignment last minute because it is a collaborative effort you would want your information to be posted so that others can add to the quality of your information and page. Placing stubs like the Prof Mike Jones suggested would be the best way in approaching this assignment.
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