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I am here and I'm not sure what to look for. I hope to learn more about how to use this site. I don't really know anything about wikipedia and need to learn how to use it. I've heard of it and seen it used at work but haven't had any real interaction with it. I assume it is an internet way to find out information about about any particular subject.

Wiki Project Discussion The project was fun and interesting. It consisted of coming up with various parts of a study of a classroom and the management of it. My part mainly had to do with the boy named Nic that was a student I had in a school as a substitute teacher. The things he did were partly real but consisted of features of other children that I had in some classrooms. A link I came up with from disciplinehelp.com that would help with understanding the students, their behaviors, and how to work with their problems did not make the finished paper. I'm not saying it was bad, its just what happened. The group decided that we figured out 3 of the 4 childrens problems and how to fix them. At this point the focus went to Xavier who had Autism. I helped with some facilitator notes and read through the project to make sure everything sounded correct.

My conclusion about the project is it was interesting to present and share ideas in order to come up with what could be an actual classroom. It was also interesting to study the problems of the children and figure out what a teacher may think they need to do. It was helpful to look at the websites to figure out practical ways to help children with various problems. It was also interesting to work with fellow students to figure out what to write and what to research in order to be a help to the group. I contributed as much as I could understand to do. One of the team member kindof took over in putting the project together which was fine with me. As a result I was able to focus on various parts of the paper and contribute in small ways that seemed beneficial to the group. I feel the experience could be one similar to what I might find in a school setting. If I have several students that have similar or different issues to the ones in the paper, I feel like I will be able to know the processes that I need to go through to find help. I will know how to use the internet to find solutions to various childrens issues and I will have experience working with fellow teachers to figure out how to work with or help certain students with behavior or disability issues.

My thoughts on the Wikispaces are that it was an interesting way for a group to colaborate to make a combined paper. You could meet in person during class time and figure out how different people could contribute to the paper. You would then do your research or come up with ideas and post them in the discussion for everyone to read. After the postings everyone could throw in their ideas about what was found to add to the paper. More disscussions could be done and someone could be elected a chief editor to combine the research. All of the members could make comments on the progress of the paper and changes or updates as they saw the need.

My professional experience in engineering might be able to use such a website for different companies to post ideas about how to do a design as they came up with them. I think there would still need to be phone calls or meetings on specific issues. Inbetween those times postings could be made in the discussions reguarding issues that come up and what people want as a finished product. My experience has been in the initial stages of a design a lot of ideas get thrown around that have to be put on paper. Various engineers could read thoughts from people inside and outside a company on a colaborative effort in order to expedite the initial stages of design and get the project moving. This would be used to help keep a project on track to be finished according to a schedule set up in the initial phases of a project.