User talk:Conrhyss

This is my user discussion page, I will be using this to register my work on the wikibook project and also to conduct some of my education assignments, please feel free to comment on my contributions here. Conrhyss (discuss • contribs) 15:49, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

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Wikibook task 1:Educational Assignment
Here I will be practicing my wiki book skills on a chosen topic for a educational purposes.

The chosen topic that I have chosen to look at is Online streaming of videos and films. In the past few years there has been many advances on different online streaming websites, many of which I find myself using on a daily basis. YouTube was started in 2005 and that is where the beginning of world wide video sites began, since then there has been many new sites added for the world to access. TV channels are now available to be streamed live, and also watch on demand has recently taken the internet by storm.

Movie sites are becoming more and more popular, especially with the younger generations, as it can work out alot cheaper than buying the films. Netflix is one of the top leading movie sites which gives you access to a variety of films. Amazon have released amazon video which is an alternative and there are many more sites that are being used.

Advances in music streaming has also occurred in the recent past, it is much easier and works out cheaper to stream music online than paying for the CD's, and it also gives you alot more choice in the matter of what you wish to listen to. Spotify is the leading online music player used at the moment which lets you stream the music and just get the audio sound and the album art, whilst YouTube, again, is used to stream the music videos. Conrhyss (discuss • contribs) 02:57, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Marker’s Comment

 * you have begun to address some relevant concerns associated with the module, but it would have been useful to try to make these connections more explicit e.g. cultural determinism where consumer culture (in relation to music sharingl) often drive the R&D aspects of any given communications and consumer tech. Drawing down from the materials encountered on the module, you could have made better use of the wiki markup by embedding links to reading, and also of course, to Wikipedia articles covering factual information. I did like the use of the embedded image however - shows potential.


 * A post of this standard roughly corresponds to the following grade descriptor, although obviously at the low end of the grade band because you didn’t make the most of connections to the module's themes and concerns:
 * 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.

RE: Comments on others’ work

 * Apart from one very short comment,these are absent. You have not adhered to the brief. Remember that your comments on other people's work is weighted as heavily as your own post when it comes to grades. Not completing this part of the exercise means that, effectively you are halving your mark. GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 17:04, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Comments
I agree with you that it is a lot cheaper, It is also a a lot easier to get access too. I know a lot of people that don't pay for steaming sites as they use their friends or their families. I am one of them, I use my friends. Being a student I find that steaming is more popular than any other form of media to watch movies or programmes. I think this is because being a student that it is more accessible and easy to use, you can watch it on your laptop or tablets and basically anywhere where you might get WIFI. It is amazing! Also you can get things that came out in cinema which also saves money. 92.26.125.215 (discuss) 16:52, 19 February 2016 (UTC) Tellegee (discuss • contribs) 16:57, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

I really like how you constructed a table and broke down each of the social media platforms into sections that best describe the content that goes around the network. I think it is often misinterpreted the use of some of these platforms as others will use it for completely different reasons, which in theory isn't at all bad, after all it is free for our use, so many people actually forget what is going to become available online for people to see and read. It is very rare that people will control their online output, but what you have displayed is an ethical and solid understanding of what holding a social media account, which I believe a lot of people should be introduced to, but in complete honesty, that's just my opinion. Although, this is really a well structured article, simple and I now see what categories each site would fall under to manage my posts and content to remain relevant. Robert Di Hero (discuss • contribs) 02:41, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise 2: Visibility and Online Footprint
Here I will be looking into and explaining different aspects of 'Visibility and online footprint' for my educational project. Personally I believe that I have quite a Large online presence, but this does not worry myself as it is strongly linked to Job being a personal rep. Being so actively online and visible is a main factor of this. The table below will outline some of my online presences and how much information is actually being publicly shown.

Forms of visibility and information available online Online Presence

The table illustrates some of the different platforms in which I have an online presence on myself, all of which mentioned have different levels of privacy settings that you can choose to use. By personally learning computing security and studying different aspects, I understand that even if something is made to appear 'private' online, there is always the presence of it being there in which there is ways to access. I personally believe that there nothing can be 'private' once it has been put online, so this makes a big difference in to what i post myself.

Before uploading any information online, I ask myself these questions:
 * Do I mind if a stranger see's this?
 * Does it make a difference if my family view it?
 * Could this in any way affect my current/future job line?
 * Will it offend anyone?

''' Controlling information online. '''

In my opinion, all information can be controlled online by simply being careful what to upload in the first place and taking procedures before putting the information online. Once the information has been saved online it is much more difficult to control, the easiest way is for deletion but this still doesn't guarantee that the information is not stored else where. Conrhyss (discuss • contribs) 03:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC) Please leave your thoughts about this page in the comments section. Constructive criticism please!

Wikibook Excersise #3:Information Overload
How do you deal with the fact that there is a lot of information out there and that it is easy to be distracted?

With the internet becoming easier to access world wide, the volume of information that you can find online is drastically increasing as time goes on. The pure mass of information that can be found can make it very difficult to recognize if the information is what you are looking for in the first instance, this can distract the user from finding the best quality information that they intended to find. Relating back to the idea of always being online, personally I believe that it is very easy to get distracted from the original purpose. It is found a lot with social media aspects which links in to the 'fear of missing out' so I constantly find myself just searching through different forms of social media to pass the time.

''“We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.”'' -John Naisbitt.

Personally overcoming information overload. A simple way that I believe I try and deal with this threat is to use a search bar constantly to search through phrases so only the relevant information is given to myself. I do struggle with the ease of access to all the online information to not procrastinate whilst I have another task at hand, there is a control measure to try and limit this for myself that I regularly use which is an extension for my web browser called StayFocusd which blocks and limits access to any websites that are deemed to be procrastination sites. I also try to take information in small chunks, split up the information into relevant and non-relevant so when looked back upon its a lot more productive to get the information that I needed.

From reading an online article -Death by information overload. - I found these information overload statistics very interesting that have been created by surveys with the public.

A brilliant quote that I have seen elsewhere is: "Never memorize what you can look up in books" -Albert Einstein

Information overload regarding businesses

Many businesses and organisations have to try and work with this in mind when giving other people information, they do not want to overload the worker/client so the challenge is to limit the information to the bare minimum so it sinks in. It is know that if too much information is given at one time, it is very difficult to remember all of the information. This can be found with training days etc. When going to start a new job the company deals with the idea of information overload by making a training day normally half day or even a few hours to not 'bombard' the colleague with information from the start.

Conclusion

In conclusion I believe that information overload has it's both advantages and disadvantages. The mass of information online can be incredibly handy in both business and personal uses to gain information that is needed. There are factors that make the information found online both a great opportunity and a threat. It gives great new opportunities to learn a wide variety of information but also a useless information that is not relevant and can overwhelm yourself. For a personal point of view I think that information overload is a brilliant thing to learn and expand your knowledge, however in a business or teaching setting it can create distractions and limit the companies full potential. (Signature didn't work) Conrhyss (discuss • contribs) 01:55, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikibook task 4: Wikibook Project Reflective Account
For this project I was part of a smaller group of 5, called '8chanbarmyarmy', which was in fact part of a larger group of 14 students to create the page 'Open source and Proprietary Technologies'. This was a very interesting topic and also quite difficult to work on due to the mass volume of information that can be found online about this.

I started slightly later than the majority of the group to contribute to the page, with this being said I believe I put extensive amount of effort into the contritions and helping others with giving them information sources that they could use. To tackle the sharing process offline, my group had various informal meetings to collaborate with each other which made the workload a lot easier for ourselves and saved any confusion in the creation of the page. We also used the discussion page to help the members, I posted various different sources of information for the topic for both myself and others members for different sub-topics. We also had a help and general comments section that all 14 members used to collaborate between each other.

I chose to look into the histories of Open source and Proprietary software for my part of the page. Being a previous computer science student, I found gathering this information very interesting and already have covered some of the topics in a broader aspect. I also gathered a lot of information on the hackers ethic as this is another interest of mine, unfortunately there was a mix up and this was already covered. This work ties in closely to what we have been learning about in lectures with the Civic web and Web 2.0. Gauntlet (2011) for example believes that Web 2.0 is about:

'Harnessing the collective abilities of the members of a online network, to make a especially powerful resource or service'

This is exactly what we did in the group to create the page itself. This task used 14 different peoples knowledge, opinions, and skills to create the final product. It's believed in the modern day that the civic web is effectively 'dumbing down' the new generations. Especially with this assignment as evidence, I believe this is incorrect due to the information that I have collectively learnt during working online and collaborating with group members. This assignment is definitely a good example of how multiple members working collectively on a wikibook not only speeds up the process but outputs a better final result. Conrhyss (discuss • contribs) 03:55, 8 April 2016 (UTC) "Note: 48 hour Extension was given."

Marker’s Feedback on Wikibook Project Work
Only contributions to the chapter page appear on the very last day of the project, and include factual entries on the history of open and proprietary software, and a few additions of references and external links here and there. This amounts to no more than 700 words of content, which are descriptive, but do not add insight into the critical debates on the politics of open source.

Wiki Exercises


 * 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.

Content (weighted 20%)

 * Your contribution to the book page gives a satisfactory brief overview of the subject under discussion in your chosen themed chapter. There is a fair range of concepts associated with your subject, and an effort to deliver critical definitions. There is evidence that you draw from relevant literature and scholarship, however your own critical voice in the building of a robust argument is slightly lost, perhaps due to a variable depth of understanding the subject matter or over reliance on rote learning. The primary and secondary sources you found about the chapter’s themes cover a somewhat circumscribed range and depth of subject matter.

Understanding (weighted 30%)

 * Reading and research:
 * evidence of critical engagement with set materials, although some ideas and procedures more securely grasped than others
 * evidence of independent reading of somewhat circumscribed range of appropriate academic and peer-reviewed material
 * Argument and analysis:
 * well-articulated and well-supported argument featuring variable depth of understanding
 * satisfactory level of evidence of critical thinking (through taking a position in relation to key ideas from the module, and supporting this position in discussion);
 * satisfactory level of evidence of relational thinking (through making connections between key ideas from the module and wider literature, and supporting these connections in discussion);
 * evidence of variable independent critical ability

Engagement (weighted 50%)

 * Evidence from contributions to both editing and discussion of content suggests minimally sufficient standard of engagement (i.e. volume and breadth of activity as evidenced through contribs)
 * Acceptable engagement with and learning from other Wikipedians about the task of writing/editing content for a Wikibook
 * Limited reflexivity and creativity, and a somewhat insecure management of discussion pages

Overall Mark % available on Succeed

FMSU9A4marker (discuss • contribs) 15:06, 3 May 2016 (UTC)