Dorothy+Spencer

I believe that Wikipedia is a website where people can post and add information about an endless list of topics. Anyone can be an author on Wikipedia, yet I believe that someone at Wikipedia does verify that the information one writes is correct.

Case senario ideas: I thought the one about the late arriver rung true. Many of them could happen daily, but might be hard to cure/help/solve.

WIKI REFLECTION: I really enjoyed working in Wiki. It was hard to master at first, and I still do not believe I know everything about changing texts, text boxes, and fonts on the "pages." I liked how everything was online and we did not have to worry about paper material. This form of working and communicating wasn't as messy as having worksheets, printing out paper, etc. Usually I am a somewhat unorganized person and the computer/wiki organizes everything for you automatically.

It was tough on wiki seeing who all was on the website at the same time as you. Sometimes you couldn't get automatic feedback from your groupmates because they might not be logged onto the website at the same time you are.That is where the ecourseware chatroom came in handy. Also, if it was easier to just turn around in the classroom and discuss something with a groupmate verbally, then our group did that since we were all in the same room at the same time. And maybe putting your thoughts into words for that particular instance was harder when typing instead of trying to verbally execute your thoughts. I also wish that wiki would "announce" that a new discussion or posting on a page had been added, like in a pop up box at the bottom or something to make you notice that more has been added to your group's wiki pages. I found myself having to keep reloading the page, looking to see if there had been more discussions popping up. I do like how we can see everything on everyone else's wiki pages and we can also click on their group pages. That was fine for this assignment, but what if you wanted something more private? Could you do that?

I also wish that it would tell you when someone did something to the group page, what they added and when they added it. I do like how when you are typing wiki automatically saves you a "draft" every couple of minutes so that all of your work doesn't get lost.

All in all I really enjoyed the simplicity and flexibility of this assignment. It allowed for us to feed off of each others' thoughts and directly helped our group with the creative process. Feedback was automatic (if your groupmate was online at the same time as you) and that helped speed the process along.