Tutorial 5&6

Tutorial 5&6 (Activity 2 – Individual Blog Activity (Reflection on Wiki Experience)

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

To me personally, working in a group is a very beneficial and it’s an effective learning experience. Subsequently, sharing all the different ideas that we had in mind with each other, my group manages to generate excellent and creative answer and we learn from each other. I get to understand my other group mates better when working with them. Not only that, my group mates also helps to correct me when I am wrong and I learnt from there.

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

As an individual contributor, I have leant that it is very important to be responsible and do my part and contribute to the group. Basically, working in the group I manage to speak out and give quite a number of relevant ideas. At the same time, I leant a lot of new information and interesting facts too from my group mates. I try to provide as much information as I could.

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

To me the most challenging experience is to be aware that what I wrote is not exactly similar to my group mates. Subsequently, for the research article that we are doing  Dead Sea Scroll “Cyber Bully” ) the issues mentioned is not a lot and is largely similar if we were to do individually and then collate as a group work.  Thus we might end up writing the exact similar thing. However the only solution for that is rephrasing what we wrote to our own style and then collates all the individual work and edits the part that is similar to one another.

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

I would advice the next batch to cooperate well as a team. As that is what I leant from my group mates, by co-operating with one another, we get to generate more creative and interesting ideas and information. Secondly I would say plan on who doing what and start early on the project to avoid late work as it would affect the marks for the whole group.

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

I would say yes definitely. Firstly I must say there is a lot of information and ideas that I could benefit from wiki. A lot of interesting and fresh topics that is discuss in wiki. In addition, taking Gerontological Management Studies, I need to do a lot of research and mostly it’s about social issues, such as youths, ageing people, modern technology and more. Thus upon taking this CDS and knowing about Wiki, it definitely benefit me in the future when I need to do research.