Homework Assignment: Homework for Block D (Wednesday 7 February). 

Finding information on ancient Africa, and then putting the information on the wikispace, was a great learning experience, as well as a lot of fun. Answering these questions, will help me reflect on my work, over the course of the month:

What did you learn from this task?

I learnt a lot of things from this task. During the start of the project, I learned a great deal about ancient Ghana. From the region, to the trade, I learnt everything. I learnt that Ghana was a very powerful empire, and that it had a great abundance in gold. Ghana used to be the main trading point for most black Africans in Western Africa. As Ghana did not have great quantities of salt, they used to trade their gold for salt with southern kingdoms. Not only did I gain knowledge about my own kingdom, I also learned a few things about other ancient empires such as the Mali Empire, and the Kongo Kingdom. As far as technology is concerned, I learnt many new skills about wikispaces. This helped me in making better wikispace pages, and working faster. In addition, I got familiar with the “iMovie making”, skill. I worked on an iMovie on ancient Africa, and that made me improve tremendously in iMovie. To visit our excellent wikispace on ancient Africa, click here.

Did you find this difficult or easy? Why?

At first finding enough information for our wikispace was slightly tough, as I was not looking at the correct sites for information. After receiving a few website evaluation hand-outs, which were extremely helpful, I finally was able to find relevant information on my topic. Besides that, I thought, that the project was a lot of fun, and reasonably easy.

What would you change about the process you went through to complete the wiki if you were to do the assignment again?

If we were to do the assignment again, then I would not change anything, as far as the research was concerned. For the technological part, however, I would give a lesson on the wikispace html, as some people may not have “Firefox” or “Internet Explorer”, at their houses, and therefore the information they add to the wikispace, does not look attractive.

Mahera