week 1

This week we focused on some of the basics to help get us started.


On Friday instead of having a lab we had an E Tutorial online.


The E Tutorial focused on two different topics;
How to create and use Wiki on Blackboard and How to collaborate efficiently.




In the first e-tutorial they discussed the importance of working in a group. Working in a group is something one must do the whole way through life and it is a very important skill. The tutorial gave some tips on how to make the most out of working with others and what to consider when getting your group started such as assigning roles and responsibilities. I have worked in groups before in my course so I am not too worried in this area but I did pick up some valuable lessons I can apply to this project.
I found the E Tutorial on how to use Wiki on Blackboard very useful because it is a tool I had never used much of before. The tutorial was very easy to understand and showed me how to use all the different tools available on Wiki. I learned a lot of different ways to make the most of your Wiki which I'm sure will become very useful when filling out my own Wiki and discussing my project with my group for this module. I learned how to attach a hyperlink to your post which will be good to apply to sources or any research our group may use. The tutorial also included some facts about how Wiki was first used and some examples such as Wikipedia. At the end of the tutorial I completed a quiz on what I was just shown. This was an effective way to learn as I went along.


In our first lecture we discussed the objectives of this module. I am excited to take this module as Social Computing and Media is all around us and is only getting bigger. It is a huge component to everyday life particularly in my generation.