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Reflection on Wiki Experience

1. What is the significant working experience for you in a working group?

The significant working experience for me in working with groups is to improve my communication skills with my fellow team members. To also enhance my teamwork skills and to learn to listen and share among one anothers ideas and mistakes. Working in a groups enables me to brainstorm even more and stretch my level of thinking when contributing ideas. In groups, i am able to work together more efficiently and this will help me in the future in any event that i need to work with a team i will not be uneasy. I am also able to learn to voice out my ideas and share information with fellow members.

2. As an individual contributor, what have you gained from this experience?

I have gained to share my research findings with my fellow team members and seek opinions from them if the information i found is relevant or not. This will help me to know if the information is relevant and valuable to be used in the topic. I am also able to learn from other team members contributions and learn some facts which i had not been able to find or understand by myself.

3.What is the one most challenging experience you had? 

The most challenging experience i had was to get in contact with my groups members, however, i managed to overcome it as some of my group mate managed to reply to my email and send over their contributions to the group work. Another challenge i faced was picking out relevant video clips from YouTube to provide exmaples and to help users to understand the topic discussed visually. Firstly, i need to understand the video before i can upload it and briefly explain what is the video aboutt and how it contributes to our topics on "What is cyber ethics in general?"

4. What advice would you give the next batch Wiki groups as they start a similar project?

I would advice them to start earlier. Firstly, to get each and every group members of the team to get their own research based on their individual task to search on. Then i suggest for them to meet up on a certain day to collaborate their ideas and brainstorm together for further ideas as well as editing each and everyone's part together. This will complete the group work faster with more information. I also advice the future groups to include in their project more visual aid such as videos or pictures and not just words as some might not able to understand just through reading the chunks of information. And also try to break down the information into different parts for easier reading.

5. Would you use Wiki for research in your own diplomas? Why ?

I would use Wiki for my own research in my own diploma only at certain times. I will also not collect information solely based on the Wiki information but i will cross reference it to some other search results. This is because since Wiki could be edited, at times some searched results might not be as accurate as it seems thus, this would affect my project if i were to only use Wiki. Therefore, i usually have a wider range of other research tools when searching for information. This way, i am able to understand better and get a better explaination for my research.