User talk:AuthenticEnough

=Wiki Exercise #1=

My Online Visibility and Footprint
This may not be a suitable platform to divulge all my online visibility but the question to always ask is how much of your online visibility is private anyways. So one way or another, a search can be done about any individual and there will be some form of information. I can vaguely recall seeing google results coming up as far back as 6 years ago when I would search for individuals that I was about to do some kind of music related work with. Most often than not the search results would come up with a Facebook account associated with the individual. The most appropriate results as you can imagine to the very top. So without the need to bore anyone reading this discussion, My online presence is as follows: 1). fairly visible 2). Visibility Forms: social Media, Music platforms, Website, Online Magazine/ Newspaper articles 3). info available: Music Related, Photographs, Videos 4). Information shared with the general public as it is inevitable when you have a music profile 5). Generating the information is somewhat under the control of those who work on the back end of website and what information is given to digital distribution aggregators. The rest is beyond my fullest control. People seem to choose to do whatever they want with bits of information online anyway. Everything and anything is in the open. The information age is wild and the end user is not in full control. With regards to social media platforms having created ones from the past as early Hi5 and MySpace. These platforms would have been my first interaction with Social media and I am almost sure that I have not signed in to these platforms in more than 12 years. One supersedes the next as the world, trends and online platforms are developed. Digital Media & the Environment is a wide topic and the media that is generated for the digital platforms of today is well contributed by many of us. My digital footprint reflects a certain percent of my life changes & interests, over the past 17 years. I would personally like to collate it all and look back on everything I have put online. I would like to meet the genius who can take me through this digital memory lane. AuthenticEnough (discuss • contribs) 10:41, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Instructor Feedback on Wiki Exercise #1
Posts and comments on other people’s work, of this standard, roughly corresponds to the following grade descriptor. Depending on where your actual mark is in relation to the making criteria as outlined in the relevant documentation, it should give you an idea of strengths and weaknesses within the achieved grade band overall:


 * Satisfactory. Among other things, satisfactory entries may try to relate an idea from the module to an original example, but might not be very convincing. They may waste space on synopsis or description, rather than making a point. They may have spelling or grammatical errors and typos. They might not demonstrate more than a single quick pass at the assignment, informed only by lecture and/or cursory reading. They may suggest reading but not thinking (or indeed the reverse). The wiki markup formatting will need some work.


 * This work is at the higher end of this grade band, so there’s clearly room for improvement here. It’s also a little late, so there are marks you would have needlessly lost in an assessed piece. I think in order to engage with the wiki exercises a bit more, it might be useful for you to look at the Grade Descriptors and criteria in the module handbook to get more of an idea of how to hit those targets. Less instrumentally, and more in relation to this particular post, making more use of the wiki functionality and markup would have gone a long way to improving fluidity and functionality of posts. I suspect that, if you become more familiar and proficient with the platform, that this would have made a considerable difference.


 * Re: responses to other people’s posts – these are fairly good, if a little brief. Remember that the comments are "worth" as much as posts themselves. The reason for this is not only to help encourage discussion (a key element of wiki collaboration!) but also to get you to reflect upon your own work. This can all, of course be used to fuel ideas that might form part of your project work. I like that you are beginning to discuss in an open and critical way (that is to say, you've responded to what other people are saying and are contributing meaningfully to discussion - arguably the civic element of wiki that you ought to be thinking about, which you clearly are).

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 12:04, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

=Wiki Exercise #2=

My online & offline identities, how are they aligned?
My online identity overall reflects the creative side of me - a side of me that performs but not pretends. I would say that there is a 45% cohesiveness between my offline & online identity. As a child of the 80s with the majority of my lifetime spent creating in order to produce and ultimately socializing was done in an organic way; face to face communication was the foundation of my interaction with, immediate family and the extended community, school, church etc. and first-time introduction to strangers. The creation of my first email address subsequently led to my first interaction with strangers using computer mediated communications where I created avatar identity for Yahoo chat rooms. (Abercombie and Longhurst 1998: 73) purports that mass media audiences typically use the narcissism and spectacle endemic in media texts to guide their own identity performances. Mass Media is an important resource from which individuals can model everyday practices and transform life into a ‘constant performance’


 * I am the generator of content that can be found about me online and for the most part I have maintained a level of honesty that allows anyone who engages with my online presence to find depth and a clear trajectory of who I am in my primal, public and professional existence face to face. However, if I was to be greeted on the yard at one of my previous places of a certain type of employment, co-workers would say that the person with the existing online identity is not the same person that was standing in-front of them.

(Jones and Holmes 2011: 110) identifies that the present generation of game changers are those that grew up on online media are digital natives and states that being online has become just as important a context as life offline. Identities change over time because people change aspects of their lives from social status through work and acquisition of property and families as they get older or mature; life changes especially with the burgeoning culture of world travel; life changes with relationship status and so these among other reasons in the phenomenon, affect the ways in which people’s identities are changed throughout the lifetime of their presence and interaction online.

As a passionately creative individual, social media has not reflected my entire life nor is that possible. For day to day and face to face situations I am not a true reflection of my online presence plainly because my life in the realness of it is too big a canvas to spread it widely and openly on social media or online platforms. People determine the level of privacy which they want. I protect my what's I deem as my private and personal identity as much as I can, and I also choose to share as much as I can about my creative identity because this is the aspect of my life that I truly wish to publicly broadcast and share to the public masses on a purely commercial reason. As the owner of multiple accounts on Facebook, I know that sharing and privacy as they relate to my accounts or profiles are not mutually exclusive. My professional profiles on Facebook are not exclusively owned by me. Should any of my accounts or post be deemed offensive or harassing to the right number of people or even to one other person the account could be totally and completely disbanded or deleted- there goes my online identity which by all means takes time to build. From online observation, most people in the world currently uses social media and that becomes part of their online identity. For those that do, social media is free to access but in return at the highest cost – all our information.

According to Christian Fuchs on the notion of privacy he states that privacy is difficult in the modern society to which we exist today; My online and offline identities are affected by my level of privacy control. (Fuchs 2014: 158) ‘strangers enter social relations that require trust or enable exchange’… and in order to build this trust certain information about individuals have to be available for checks and inquisitions to take place. Companies and employers use a certain amount of surveillance today that never existed some decades ago; but with platforms that I am a member of such as: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google also with artificial intelligence on the rise; there is more of a threat to privacy and identity both online and offline than what the inventors of technological means of communication sought to achieve and dreamed of when |Alexander Graham Bell and Antonio Meucci et al contributed to the invention of the telephone.


 * Identity can be a product of the essential character of an individual, but could also be a result of the ideologies that produce the individuals themselves. I try to be honest and put my true Authentic self into this, but like "no art is truly original" for certain at the most essentially level there are multiple sides of my personality that has been directly and indirectly influenced by society, other people and nature and it is this identity which is exposed at some point by my bidding only. AuthenticEnough (discuss • contribs) 00:36, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Bibliography 

- Abercombie, N., Longhurst, B (1998) “Audiences: A sociological theory of performance and imagination. SAGE, London.

- Fuchs, C. (2014) “Social Media a critical introduction”. SAGE, London.

- Jones,P. Holmes,D. (2011) "Key Concepts in Media and Communications". SAGE, London.

Space here for Peer Comments

Overall this is an extremely well written essay on the comparison between offline and online identity. I greatly appreciate the perhaps more unique viewpoint from yourself, a self proclaimed child of the 80s, which makes an interesting read as it derives from someone who, unlike many others in the course, did not grow up with social media. Furthermore, the use of personal detail and academic references together makes for a well researched piece. The references, character count, and images used make the essay align well with the requirements for the exercise. Well done. Msweeney00 (discuss • contribs) 11:43, 18 March 2019 (UTC)Msweeney00


 * Thank you for taking time out to read my essay Tho the deadline has passed I will have a look at yours. Regards. AuthenticEnough (discuss • contribs) 00:36, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Hey you messaged me about a clash of topics? My idea was to combine the two paragraphs together so as to make them flow together well. If you wish to contact me outside Wikibooks message me on Facebook at Darren Gratton and we'll make the essay flow a bit better. Atari Darren (discuss • contribs) 19:14, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

=Wiki Exercise #3=

Annotated Bibliography
Obaidat .M, Anpalagan .A, Woungang .I (2013) Handbook of green information and communication systems (pp. 267-292 & 331-348) Oxford. Accessed 14.03.2019 https://discoverlibrary-stir-ac-uk.ezproxy.stir.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2298851__Shandbook%20of%20green%20information%20__Orightresult__U__X6?lang=eng&suite=def

Obaidat et el have compiled a very comprehensive document looking at the way in which society accesses information. They identify that with the invention of the need for accessing information at high speeds and on a rapid 24/7 type of access around the world being connected from whatever device it may be, it has given rise to an information and communication society. In the fast pace environment in which we all now exists all the data and content that is being generated in order to provide more fast and efficient services to the users, there is an evolution of Internet-scale computing paradigm and service facilities commonly known as grid and cloud infrastructures. There are two comprehensive chapters in the entire handbook that is vital to the understanding of Data Centers their infrastructures and their impact on the environment. The editors have strategically outlined for the first-time reader a brief background to the information and communication society we exist in today in order to allow us to see the efficiency and purposes of Data centers and their involvement in the green debate. This document is vital to the debate that is needed today; an understanding provided by Obaidat et al will allow for critical and supportive evidence on the ways in which media production and the transfer of these media via the heavy reliance data centers impact on the environment.


 * Hey, really like your piece here, the only thing I have to add (annoyingly I wish I had your understanding of wikipedia code here to help you out) is a couple grammar issues because I dont know how to signpost the few bits I think you could improve. I think you have really highlighted the points which are essential. I find everything you have added here really interesting, and it makes me wanna read the article. But you know you can contact me privately, if you wanna discuss some things I would wish to add here alongside what you have written! Overall, you've given a great annotated bibliography and I have been consistently interested by your work!! keep it up !!

=Wiki Exercise #4=

What Are Wikis

 * Not just a space where discussions are held, but a dynamic and ever-changing platform that is not an Online Social Network. This document seeks to identify the essence of wikis whist reflecting on my own experience in this last month of navigating and learning how to contribute to a level that comes as close to being well researched and reviewed quality of work.
 * After, a nearly 4 week long collaborative experience to produce a 3000 word essay comprised of various findings obtained through research, peer assistance and analysis on the topic of Digital Culture and the Environment ; participants like myself garnered a general understanding for the coding and tech architecture of a construct informed of the most popular online encyclopaedia called Wikipedia . The project was executed on Wikibooks an open content, free, publicly usable data base of information which is hosted by The Wikimedia Foundation and that foundation “is a non-profit organization that depends on voluntarism and donations to operate […] donations primarily helps to purchase server equipment, launch new projects, and develop MediaWiki—the software technology which makes Wikibooks possible.




 * I have come to the inspired conclusion that Wikis are online entries made electronically using an appropriate device usually by a large number of people around the world that collaboratively join forces to create one of the largest non-commercial, crowd funded, advertisement free, data and media platform for universal access of information. Wikis are collaborative production via a technology that allows anyone to change pages easily on the site ; ultimately wikis become a smelting pot, featuring a conglomerate of ideas and findings. Wikibooks facilitate wiki entries edits and updates as collaborative research through contributions made to the Wikibooks textbooks and foster a community in the following ways: “Firstly the platform being free is free forever. No one can stop use of the materials, the modification and distribution of them. Also, the license guarantees that any works that are derived from these materials will be similarly free to modify and distribute, forever; Information and use of it is “gratis” - accessible at no cost; Subject matters are started by professionals exposed to academia or the area of discussion; There are regular and real time updates that can be made to entries; Having a built in feedback structure where students and collaborators can ask and help each other also with interface feedback provided; The information available on Wikibooks supports global educational materials; while contributions are made at a flexible pace and there are no restrictions.


 * This digital commons community does not necessarily allow online emancipation; If I understand this correctly, what is missing from Wikipedia is the SHARE button in the technology that Wikipedia allows users to make changes and edits. The power of sharing on such a platform by way of contributions, even though it is not a social media platform but functions from the work done by a worldwide collaborative of volunteers making contributions does not allow transferred data or ‘sharing’. Of course when people make contributions they take pride in the information they produce.



Producing data at this level does not offer online emancipation of which I think social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or snap chat offers; mentioned above, one of its rules of engagement as being “free to modify and distribute, forever” however any distribution is through sharing page Url or embedding. An example of the collective contributions is the amassing of internal media to prevent copyright issues, is the Wiki Commons monthly photo challenge, which inspires photographers to take great pictures and upload them to Commons […] while improving the Commons repository of free images. Built from the efforts of its contributors (exclusionary policies) thereby creating a revolutionary production (collective action) of more resourceful data for the web. As this may be my last entry using this Wiki platform, I leave you with an image from this month's photo challenge theme: Beginning and Ending. Thank you for reading.

=Peer Comments=

In response to exercise 4

I really liked reading your evaluation on the Wikibooks project and I am intrigued by some of your thoughts. I felt that through the use of Wikibooks I was sharing and that a dedicated button wouldn't be needed; as you said there is a pride in knowing that people are viewing and perhaps learning from the content contributed by myself, and by extension my group. I believe that the introduction of a share button would create a more social media like platform and that, as you said, is not the intention of Wikipedia.

I know that from my experience the Wikibooks project has been about promoting a new more active way of learning instead of simply digesting data and information we are able to gather our thoughts discuss and share them among our peers via the discussion page; which my group found very useful to the construction of our wiki book page. Doctor-Riddler (discuss • contribs) 15:50, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * thank you for taking time out to read and comment on my exercise. Best wishes!! AuthenticEnough (discuss • contribs) 08:08, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Hey! You're making some great arguments here regarding what kind of platform Wikibooks is, and how it is utilized by people across the globe. I like that you refer to Wikibooks as being a 'smelting pot' - this is probably the most accurate description of the site I've come across so far. The platform is used and shaped by thousands of people who all come together as one to create a space for ideas and knowledge, and you also mention that this collaborative research fosters a community of sorts. I agree with this statement. There must be a sense of belonging on this site since people want to keep using it, right? This could be grounded in their desire to share knowledge, or the opportunity to communicate with like minded people - or both for that matter. Talljenny (discuss • contribs) 19:06, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for reading my exercise above on what are wikis and for leaving a comment. much appreciated, best wishes to you.AuthenticEnough (discuss • contribs) 08:08, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Hey this comment is in response to your exercise #4, sorry it has been rather belated as I have had so many different assignments intersecting at once over the last week or so. I certainly agreed with your intro, discussing the nature of wikipedia and wikibooks as a source of information, and how well it can be stacked up against other mediums. I like your summary of what exactly wikibooks are, in that they for the contributors they are much more about themselves as in relation to other people and not as much so are they about the pages, but more how people can work in tandum to produce the pages of information.

While I think often when you come from wikipedia/wikibooks from an academic standpoint I think we all have a degree of hesitation around the usage of the website, but your point about its ability to be used in education is extremely valid. I certainly agree with you there. I Would say that while wikibooks by its base creation is never a primary source of information, but only a ever a secondary, I dont think that it means we should diminish its importance to education elsewhere, I have always personally believe it to be a very important resource, as while it may not fit into University academia, often that level of academia is the only industry which deals with the literature that it does. As in, in most walks of life we do not write in an essay format, or feel as though every point we bring up in conversation needs to have multiple sources always attached, in in this sense I still believe, as you say that it is a monumental change to the possibility for people to be able to access information.

I also agree with your ideas around comparing wikis to social media platforms, it isnt quite so direct in the way it allows people to communicate, and it can be much more complex in how you can try speak to people in your 'circle', but it is also a place created for people to share information with each other, social media itself is also, in essence, the same as this.

Overall I really enjoyed what you wrote here, I thought it was well laid out and also showed you clearly have thought about what wikis are, and on top of that connected your own experiences with the platform, which have left you with your own well voiced opinions, which I find myself relating to greatly as well! I would also like to say a quick thank you for taking the time to comment on my own work, which helped me to reflect back upon my own opinions. Good stuff! Ohmygoldfish (discuss • contribs) 09:58, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

= References List =

Debates in Digital Culture https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Debates_in_Digital_Culture_2019/Digital_Culture_and_the_Environment#Last_minute_comments%21%21

Wiki Main Page https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

How Wikipedia Works https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works/Introduction

Wiki Contributions https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Contributing

Wiki Commons Photo Challenge https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photo_challenge

Millward, P., Social Movements, Collective Action and Activism (2019:pg 1) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0038038518817287

=ROUGH WORK for collaborative Essay =

Data Centers - their Media Production and environmental implications
In contribution to the Collaborative Essay the information below is the starting point of/ in anticipation of and essential ideas of my contributions to the group essay provided by the group The Girls & Gays

‘‘ … in the age of information, most transactions are managed electrically…’’ McLuhan (2003: 125) The technical success of getting a message across is very vital in media production around the world and relies heavily on electrical power. In the book Key concepts in Media and Communications by Paul Jones & David Holmes they speak briefly on the process model of communication as it relates to mass media or communication. In this day and age of information technology, the process speed at which information is shared stored and transferred around the world is heavily dependent on the data centers that are constructed around the world to ensure the efficiencies of data usage and transfer-ability from place to place – and they a require a constant supply of energy to allow the production of media and the dissemination worldwide- Data centers are media for producing media: “The effect of sending a message to a receiver …by a sender of one end of a communication channel is faithfully reproduced at the other end by a receiver” Jones& Holmes (2011:134).

Google Data Centers! A world Famous Technology Company- | Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook.

Google has numerous its data centers positioned around the world -mostly within the United States- with mirror locations to support back up services in the event of a break-down of services in the main data center. When we access our google accounts and send data across the internet or when we access services on the internet that allow us to enjoy our day to day use and access to information around the world and communications through high band-with service providers – we are accessing a service that is housed within these data centers that are constantly on. See this video | Inside a Google Data Center

Google positions itself as one of the leading Data center managers. They explain the ways the operations run at Google with efficiency and environmental friendliness. Iceland boasts an ideal location for data centers as there is geothermal energy and “Power is one of the main cost drivers for data centers. The competitive price of Landsvirkjun's power offering and low carbon emissions of the country's power generation make Iceland a highly attractive location for data centers” | Landsvirkjun-Iceland Data Center. The country also boast low cost energy and due to a cold climate it reduces the need for air conditioning and cooling, which are heavy energy users in warmer climates such as the USA.

Google has been awarded a multi site certification for at least 6 of their corporate Data centers in the United states as a part of their concerted effort to reduce emissions and cause less damage to the environment; employing greener and more efficient sources of energy for the constant operation of their data centers so that they can keep providing the competitive and high level of technology service to their over 1 billion users per day

References Jones.P, Holmes.D (2011) Key Concepts in Media and Communications Sage. London

McLuhan. M (2003) Understanding Me: Lectures and interviews Eds. S. Mcluhan and D Staines. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

Obaidat .M, Anpalagan .A, Woungang .I (2013) Handbook of green information and communication systems. Oxford. Accessed 14.03.2019 []

Google via Wikipedia []

Iceland data centres []

Inside a Google data center via youtube []




 * Hey, really like what you've written here, makes a lot of sense within the context of our collaborative essay, also ties in well with what I have written regarding energy usage of different mediums and companies. Think the research you've done, especially regarding the location of data centres and how best to keep negative environmental impacts down is really useful and interesting. I think if anyone else, including myself wanted to expand on it we could go into the companies that do not make as much effort to keep their environmental impacts down in regards to data centres and maybe areas where google are not so effcient, and you've laid really solid groundwork here to go off of, so I may do some research of my own. Ohmygoldfish (discuss • contribs) 16:27, 19 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you I appreciate that you could offer some feedback and I certainly think that if you or anyone else in the group considers looking at other companies and their attitude to environmental affects then that would be great. I think that co-relation can certainly bring together the essay to make it cohesive. I know there is plenty evidence out there but this essay is not a scientific essay and so we are all trying to keep the discourse in the line of what we mean by media but when we take on the definitions of someone like McLuhan we have got to not express too much bias in one area as to what media is. My thing is that (a) - one data center is a medium by which we are able to access the services that we do with the internet ..... in your piece you spoke about the use of electricity as opposed to sitting and writing a letter and we don't realize that the same email that we wrote 10 years ago that is still in our inbox is there not because it is on the computer which uses up electricity ( certainly taxing on the environment at some level  whether source point or output level) but it is there because the email address via the internet servers we uses gmail yahoo microsoft / outlook even wikipedia all exist because of the power ( electricity ) being given to the Data Centers that run constantly and with a very high level of power use for operation to begin with and for cooling and for staying on basically. I am rambling here but this is the back end that I wanted to use to help open up the discourse so that we are not just looking at Media in the form of what we can see on the internet online .... but essentially what powers this media so that we can see it and people all around the world can see it too. and my big question is who is doing what ethically and who is not doing it ethically. So I will try to make my contribution more concise and identify the key points that will help to make our essay a very comprehensive one. Thank you again for your time. Best wishes with all your module coursework. AuthenticEnough (discuss • contribs) 18:07, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK: ENGAGEMENT ON DISCUSSION PAGES & CONTRIBS
Grade descriptors for Engagement: Engagement on discussion pages, and contribs of this standard attain the following grade descriptor. Whereas not all of the elements here will be directly relevant to your particular response to the brief, this descriptor will give you a clearer idea of how the grade you have been given relates to the standards and quality expected of work at this level:
 * Satisfactory. Among other things, satisfactory contributions may try to relate an idea from the module to an original example, but might not be very convincing. They may waste space on synopsis or description, rather than making a point. They may have spelling or grammatical errors and typos. They might not demonstrate more than a single quick pass at the assignment, informed only by lecture and/or cursory reading. They may suggest reading but not thinking (or indeed the reverse) and will have little justification for ideas offered on Discussion Pages. The wiki markup formatting will need some work.

As instructed in the labs, and outlined in the assessment brief documentation, students should be engaging at least once a day, for the duration of the project. The following points illustrate how this engagement is evaluated.

Evidence from contribs to both editing and discussion of content (i.e. volume and breadth of editorial activity as evidenced through ‘contribs’). These are primarily considered for quality rather than quantity, but as a broad guideline:
 * Each item on a contribs list that are 3000+ characters are deemed “considerable”
 * Each item on a contribs list that are 2000+ characters are deemed “significant”
 * Each item on a contribs list that are 1000+ characters are deemed “substantial”
 * Items on a contribs list that are <1000 characters are important, and are considered in the round when evaluating contribs as a whole because of their aggregate value

Overall:
 * Your overall record lack consistency throughout the perod of the project, and so you have amassed a small number of contribs to discussion. However, what is here is of very good quality, and you clearly show engagement with both subject matter and with others. There are a small number of contribs that could be classed as substantial by the above criteria, and one that is considerable. So, perhaps with more consistency, and more active discussion or contribution to the annotated notes, you could have improved the mark here.

Engagement with and learning from the community on Discussion Pages
 * Evidence of peer-assisted learning and collaboration
 * Satisfactory
 * Evidence of reading, sharing, and application of research to the essay
 * Good
 * Evidence of peer-review of others’ work
 * Good

Reflexive, creative and well-managed use of Discussion Pages
 * Clear delegation of tasks
 * Poor
 * Clearly labelled sections and subsections
 * Satisfactory
 * Contributions are all signed
 * Good

Civility. Your conduct is a key component of any collaboration, especially in the context of an online knowledge-building community. Please respect others, as well as observe the rules for civility on wiki projects. All contribs are moderated.
 * Good

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 15:53, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Instructor Feedback on Wiki Exercise Portfolio
Posts and comments on other people’s work, of this standard, roughly correspond to the following grade descriptor. Depending on where your actual mark is in relation to the making criteria as outlined in the relevant documentation, it should give you an idea of strengths and weaknesses within the achieved grade band overall:


 * Excellent. Among other things, these entries will probably demonstrate a complex, critical understanding of the themes of the module. They will communicate very effectively, making excellent and creative use of the possibilities of the form (including links, as well as perhaps copyright-free videos and images, linked to from Wiki Commons), and may be written with some skill and flair. They will address the assignment tasks in a thoughtful way. They will make insightful connections between original examples and relevant concepts. They will be informed by serious reading and reflection, are likely to demonstrate originality of thought, and will probably be rewarding and informative for the reader. The wiki markup formatting will be impeccable.


 * A very well written, and well organised (after a good spot of trial and error editing) set of portfolio submissions. This work is at the lower end of this grade (admittedly high!) band, so there is still perhaps a little room for improvement here. I think in order to engage with the wiki exercises a bit more, it might be useful for you to look at the Grade Descriptors and criteria in the module handbook to get more of an idea of how to hit those targets.


 * Good use of the wiki functionality and markup which went some way to improving fluidity and functionality of posts. I suspect that, if you become more familiar and proficient with the platform, that this would make a difference.


 * Re: responses to other people’s posts – these are fairly good, and well detailed, using critical engagement and drawing from research and experience.

General:
 * Reading and research: evidence of critical engagement with set materials; evidence of independent reading of appropriate academic and peer-reviewed material – all good.


 * Argument and analysis: well-articulated and well-supported argument; evidence of critical thinking (through taking a position in relation to key ideas from the module, and supporting this position); evidence of relational thinking (through making connections between key ideas from the module and wider literature, and supporting these connections); evidence of independent critical ability – all good.


 * Presentation: good use of wiki markup and organisational skills.

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 16:43, 1 May 2019 (UTC)