Wiki Experience

I am being assigned to from a group to research on a topic then to share it in the WIKI.

Our class have been assigned a story called 'Google being Investigate' and the topic that my group is to research on is about internet security.

Ever since i came into this class, i have rarely spoke to anyone in the class thus we are total strangers to everyone. During the first few minutes of the discussion, there is something like an awkward silence in the group as i assume most of us are shy. However, we soon started to talk and discuss about the topics that we are being assigned and we also start to open ourselves to one another.

We started discussing and contribution idea and smaller topics that are related to the topic given to us. We then split up the work that we are supposed to do and we put to use what we have learnt from the pass few lessons and started to do our research on our topics then gathered them together and present it to our group leader. Our group leader then consolidate them together and posted it on the wiki itself.

In this wiki sharing experience, i have learnt that working in a group will introduce more ideas and opinions on the related topics which will help improve the quality of the work. Individually, i felt that being shy or quiet would not help much in this circumstance and by speaking up and sharing would benefit everyone.

The most challenging part of this experience is to be able to understand other group mates idea on a very short time as everyone have a different way of expressing themselves from their ideas thus making it difficult to understand but it became clear when they explain it slowly and properly.

The advise to the other batch of students is to ensure that they start talking to one another when they first come in to this class so as to be familiar with one another so when there is a group work, they would not be shy and to wait there till someone broke the ice and introduce themselves.

I would definitely use wiki for my own research in my own diploma as my course requires me to be updated and to do constant research for my project due to the rapid change in the society. Wiki is also something which everyone can use to update and share information thus having many different point of views from other people