Kittybug

About Me

Welcome!

I am currently a student at Linfield College for a BA in Psychology and Theater. My interests are swimming, teaching lessons, acting, reading, writing, paint balling, and listening to music.

My sandbox

Assignments

• Created an account
• Made an about me section
• Created a Sandbox
• Signed up to the list of students
• Made an edit in my sandbox
• Sent one of my group members a message and signed post
• Edited Autism spectrum page
• Added a sentence in First impression (psychology) which was: "First impressions however, don't always stay around. If you have a bad first date, for instance it may be due to nerves or stress."
• Here are the 3 articles I picked to work on:

1. OCD- intending to edit this article instead of create our own.
2. Autism- intending to consider this as an article to write about.
3. Bipolar- intending to consider writing an article regarding this subject, it is an interesting article because it discusses children with bipolar disorder.

But after Professor Tompkins looking at my page, she told me that the subjects I choose were already developed and needed to pick ones that are more under developed.

• Added a section to a article already up, about desensitization, and added a reference to the page. As well as put a suggestion on their talk page on improving their article. I then posted what I did on Professor Tompkins talk page.
• Discussed with my group what I was going to be doing for the outline. Once it was posted on the talk page, I put my references up on the articles I would be using when writing my section of the article.
• Posted on our groups article page, my contribution to the article.
• Put a reference on my section of the article.
• Looked over our article before it was submitted (unfortunatly I did not post about this on any of my group members talk pages, and didn't end up changing anything
• Peer reviewed and gave feedback to another groups wiki page

Reflection

This semester in general has been a difficult one in general and has gotten harder as the semester has progressed. Through this class and article it was shown me what I need to still work on as a student. This semester started off and I thought this wiki project was going to be a breeze, until I actually sat down and worked with the site. I sat on the computer for about an hour on the computer trying to post things, and create a site, and I just couldn't get the hang of it. Once we had the first group meeting I was starting to understand the project a little bit more. Every week there was another dilemma, but it was nice to be apart of a group that was also struggling, so we worked together to help each other out. Overall I think this project was really helpful in regards to projects in real life in the future where we will have to work with other people. This project also made us contribute our best work because we knew that other people besides our peers and professors would read and critique it. I didn't have a problem with not knowing my grade on the wiki assignment, but I would it would have been more helpful at the beginning of the semester to have a group session in the library. This would be helpful because we would get some hands on work with other people and Professor Tompkins about wiki. I spent a lot of hours trying to figure out how to work the site, which I could have gone and seen Professor Tompkins about, true, but my semester was fairly busy and I didn't really have a lot of time to go in. This assignment overall was a good one, and a great idea! It was very helpful to understanding different concepts of this class, and it was kind of thrilling to write an article that professionals could look at and contribute to themselves.