Wiki Reflection Blog Week 6

           The very first time I visited the Wiki I was a bit overwhelmed.  I had never done any work on or with a Wiki except for occasionally looking at information on Wikipedia.  Since the our Wiki space was created a good bit before we needed to post any information on it I was able to take the opportunity to look around the site and get my bearings a bit.  Our group leader Stephanie did an excellent job setting up our wiki and made it very easy to navigate and find where to post our information.  The next time I visited the space I worked on adding my references and writing the outline for my literature review.  At first I wasn't entirely sure where to post everything, but I found it pretty quickly.  I found that I do not like the way the spacing works when it is saved.  I tried several times to format the outline as it should be but came up unsuccessful.  The last time I worked on the Wiki was to post my Literature Review.  I decided to write the review using a Word document then copy and pasted it into the Wiki to avoid any trouble.  I thought this went pretty well, but again ran into formatting problems when saving the document.  Our group decided to color code the work that we did on our Wiki.  Each person wrote in a different color to make it easier to see the various contributions.  I wrote in purple and contributed several different resources as well as an outline and four pages for the review about BYOD curriculum.  Each group member is working on writing two questions for our test.  Since the concept is fairly new it was difficult to find resources that gave us information pertaining to the subject.  I do feel that I am much more aware of the concept of BYOD, and feel that it would be a valuable addition to a school if they were to choose to undertake a similar program.  Working on the Wiki allowed me to see some opportunities that I may not have known about before in working with students with what is available.  Not all classrooms have state of the line devices, but if there are digital devices available it would be great to try to implement them into the learning process.  I enjoyed working with my group a great deal, and I believe that the communication was very easy and helped a great deal when we really got into the meat of the project.