User:Meencantayoga/reflection

My feelings towards Wiki:

I think that the idea of Wikipedia is great. I think it's wonderful that anyone can share the knowledge they possess and gain information from others. People who write on Wiki have a great tendancy to explain things in a way that'll make sense to a non-specialist, providing a good jumping-off point for students going into an in-depth study of something new, and a tool for anyone who wants to get introductory knowledge on something new.

As far as using Wiki for a class, I think it's a good idea in principle. However, I don't think it has been working well in practice. I didn't find it particularly useful in helping to better understand concepts within my major, becuase the pages on the topics that are of interest to me all seemed to explain the basics enough, leaving me little room to add without putting in too much detail to be very relevant. I thought that the activity as a class was a good team-building activity that brought our class together, and that it was a good exercise in group work. I don't think that Wiki works as well when it's enforced. I think it's better if people who are actually really passionate about the page or who are really educated on the subject do the editing. I think a lot of us in the class got bored of it after a few assignments... I know that I did. And with the heavy workload of the class, I think it could be cut out completely without compromising the integrety of the class academically. Even for a writing enhanced 100-level class, the amount of writing was over and above where it needs to be, based on my experiences with other writing-enhanced courses. I think I wrote at least as much in here as I did in my JINS. Because we were asked to write so much for Wiki, I felt that I didn't get to put enough effort into the other assignments for the class, which I found more relevant to studying interdisciplinarity and my own personal interests.