Talk:Lentis

On this page, please feel free to make suggestions about the wiki project. (Please log on first.) Would you recommend doing any of it differently? Your suggestions are welcome.

Please feel free also to comment on others' suggestions. This will help me gauge whether there is enough support for a suggestion to warrant implementing it. I will raise such proposals in class.

In class today we heard the following suggestions from students. Please feel free to comment on them:

''Maybe we should have only team grades for chapters, instead of the possibility of individual grades. After all, in professional life, the product of a team is the responsibility of the whole team.''

My own feeling is that a team grade should be the default mode. I would, however, like to reserve individual grades for cases where a member has clearly not done his or her share, and for other similar cases. But I will reconsider if the proposal gets significant support.

''Maybe the instructor shouldn't try to use the "history" page (the page that shows the edits and who made them) to evaluate authors. After all, if a team sits at a computer together, one student might make edits or add material while logged in under another student's name.''

I think it's worth asking students to make edits while logged in under their own names, because it can help me evaluate each person's work. There's also an "Edit summary" box at the bottom of each unsaved page; you could use that space to explain that a particular edit was really the work of two people, or of someone other than the person logged in. In the assignment briefing I also asked students to explain to me if they think that their history page is misleading. But I will reconsider if the proposal gets significant support.

''Under the current version of the assignment, teams break up after Phase I and students form new teams with new members for Phase II. Could we instead permit a Phase I team to continue together on Phase II?''

I wanted to break up teams to diminish the "good team / bad team" effect. That is, an unlucky team might get burdened by an unproductive member—or conversely a productive student might be burdened with two unproductive partners. If there is strong feeling in favor of permitting Phase I teams to continue on Phase II, and little or no opposition to this proposal, I will consider it.

Finally, one student in the 5:00 section asked:

During Phase II, could teams have the option of starting a new chapter, instead of building upon another team's Phase I chapter?

In my opinion, wikis work when lots of eyes review an entry. This, I think, is why most of the better Wikipedia articles are pretty good. So I'm inclined to limit Phase II teams to building upon other teams' Phase I chapters. But if you agree with the proposal, say so.

Please feel free to make other suggestions below.

I contributed to the "How Energy Companies Rebrand" chapter. I wrote the introduction and conclusion. I organized the information such that it transitioned smoothly. Tried to tie in larger social ideas. Jkp5kj (discuss • contribs) 00:56, 13 December 2016 (UTC)