wiki's / flaming

After class this week i really began thinking about how using a Wiki would be beneficial to every communications class. I'm not saying that every comm class should use a wiki all the time, but i think I would be good to do some experimenting with them. for example taking am assignment such a reading from the book and set up a wiki for the reading. then have everyone in the class ad their opinions to the reading. this would also be a lot easier for a professor to grade. instead of going through 20-30 individual blogs, every one's post would be on one web page. hopefully this will be something we see put in to effect in the near future just as an experiment and make sure to get the classes feedback about using Wiki's.

we also discussed flaming this week. when going through most of my classmates responses, i found many of them said that flaming would mostly occur in a group dynamic, which is also what i said. i have found this to be true from personal experiences. i have worked in a couple of groups I'm my almost three years in college where half the group would agree with one view while the other half would agree with the opposing point. and to me the most important thing to do in these situations is to make sure to hear everyone out. often times people hear their own idea and shut out the other options. several times i have changed my stand point when hearing someone else's view. patience is also keen, because when you jump the gun and totally ignore someone else's idea, you are going to come across problems and eventually to someone in the group getting aggressive. so keep your cool and keep an open mind