Week 6

While working on your Wiki Literature Review, develop a reflective narrative as a Word document about 3 times that you worked on the wiki. You should reflect on the first time you used the wiki, the last time you used the wiki, and time in between.  Each narrative should be approximately 200–300 words. 

Use the following questions to guide your entries:

• What was my contribution?
• How did working on the wiki contribute to or to hinder my learning or knowledge development?
• How did working on the wiki contribute to or to hinder my attitude toward the subject matter?
• How did working on the wiki contribute to or hinder my ability to perform in my future career (i.e. skill development)?
• How did working on the wiki contribute or hinder my sense of reciprocity and cooperation among students in my class?  

You may visit your peers' blogs and comment on your peers' entries; however, it is not required for this blog.

Submission Criteria: Your blog entry is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday, submitted via your blog.


My thoughts about the wiki.  I chose PBworks as the place that we would work on our blog after doing some research that said that it would serve our needs of having a place to post our work and share it with others.

Working on the wiki contributes to my learning because it gives me a place to have all of my work in one central location. This allows me to organize my thoughts and to have my research at my fingertips. I tend to collect more data than necessary when working on assignments and having a wiki gives me a repository for all of my research.

Working on the wiki helps me to have more of an understanding about our subject in this class which is Special education.  I enjoy having a place that I can write about the subject and most importantly I enjoy just being able to find articles and place them in the wiki for later.
The wiki has contributed to my ability to perform in my career because it has taught me more organizational skills that I can use in my job as a classroom teacher and even in working with other aspects of my job.
The wiki contributed to my sense of reciprocity and cooperation among students in my class because they would deposit data into the wiki and I would be able to see what direction they were going in.  This would then guide me down the right path rather than when you work by yourself you are not really sure if you understand or not. You also can see how much your teammates have contributed and you want to make sure that you are contributing the same amount if not more so that the division of labor is fair.

Overall having a wiki space has been a good experience and I will use one in the future.