User talk:Kellysun960601

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Wiki Exercise #1: Educational Project
This is my second Chinese New Year in Scotland - it is the most important holiday for Chinese people. Excitement and happiness are palpable this time of the year， and they reach the peak on lunar new year‘s eve. Though the 15-day period，which starts with the first day of the lunar new year and ends on the 15th day （known as Lantern Festival），is relatively long， it is the busiest time of the year for Chinese people. The arrangements they have to make for family reunions，buying necessities and preparing food keeps them busy throughout the holiday. Many of them travel back home and meet friends over dinner and drinks. The celebrations include decorating the house and setting off fireworks.

But now I want to tell you the origin of Chinese New Year, a lengend. The word "Nian"，which in modern Chinese solely means "year"，was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year. The beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day，an old man came to their rescue，offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said， "I hear say that you are very capable， but can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of your worthy opponents?" So，it did swallow many of the beasts of prey on earth that also harassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.

After that，the old man disappeared riding the beast Nian. He turned out to be an immortal god. Now that Nian is gone and other beasts of prey are also scared into forests， people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left，he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it sneaked back again，because red is the color the beast feared the most.

From then on，the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term "Guo Nian"，which may mean "Survive the Nian" becomes today "Celebrate the (New) Year" as the word "guo" in Chinese having both the meaning of "pass-over" and "observe". The custom of putting up red paper and firing fire-crackers to scare away Nian should it have a chance to run loose is still around. However，people today have long forgotten why they are doing all this，except that they feel the color and the sound add to the excitement of the celebration.

--Kellysun960601 (discuss • contribs) 11:34, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

I think that not just the Chinese new year has lost its meaning, but all the other holidays as well. For instance nobody cares about the real meaning of Christmas anymore, it is just an excuse to buy and receive presents, in fact is not a Christian only holiday and people from any kind of religion celebrate it. On the other hand though, if we can't remember the origin of the holiday there's still something left of the original meaning, like spending time with our relatives, our parents or our friends. If the consumerism ruined the authenticity of some holidays, at least it didn't change the fact that we can spend some quality time with our loved ones.GConcilio94 (discuss • contribs) 22:03, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise 1: Formative Feedback
This reflection is slightly off-topic as I cannot immediately link it back to the brief. You offer a thorough description of traditions of Chinese New Year, which would benefit from a greater engagement with why this is important to you. The post would also benefit from using more wiki markup including links to relevant resources (e.g. some videos of some of the traditions). You have also failed to comment on any of your classmate's exercises. Please make sure to follow all parts of the brief and remember that engagement constitutes the majority of the marks for the portfolio.

A post of this standard roughly corresponds to the following grade descriptor: 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. Sprowberry (discuss • contribs) 10:03, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise #2: Visibility and Online Footprint
When I use social media, my post is not available to everyone, especially some privacy information such as my real name, home address, school, etc. My favourable social media platforms are facebook, Instagram and Tumblr. When I post my life online, I will only choose those who I want to share with, and limit those who I dislike or don’t want them know what am I doing or thinking at the moment. Sometimes, I even post different information on different social media platforms at the same time, as my followers on different social media platforms are different, and I do want to leave a good impression for my different friends, as well as my relatives.

Regarding the issue that people would like to control what goes on their social media, this is true and it happens on all of us. The first time I realise this situation is I notice that people tends to use different language strategies on different social media platforms. Taking LinkedIn as an example, I once browsed an English teacher’s LinkedIn page, he is an experienced teacher in both teaching English and Chinese. He writes his CV with the formal written word and proper punctuation, which leaving a professional impression for readers. With the further examination of his page, I found his comments in a forum of “Chinese teachers’ club”, and it showed that, compared with his CV on the main page of LinkedIn, he used more casual language strategies in the Discussion part.The analysing of this teacher’s writing habits refer to one’s distinct personality. When writing a CV, individuals tend to write in formal language to express a professional and serious impression to readers, while in the comments, people prefer to write in more casual language to make an enjoyable discussion environment and characterize themselves as the one who is easy to get along well with. As Wellman claimed that when taking part in social media, people do not act as just a single, self-contained identity, but as network individuals. This hypothesis can not only apply to this teacher’s LinkedIn posts, but also to all LinkedIn users’ writing on the site. LinkedIn members understand that there will be diverse audiences reading their web posts; thus, by carefully choosing language strategies, they can present the appropriate identity in the given situation.

It can be concluded that social media, as well as LinkedIn, is changing the traditional meaning of text and the transformation enables individuals to manage their reading and writing practices in personal style, which is hard to achieve in the print-based media era. In other words, the process of managing one’s language online can also be regarded as an approach to manage one’s visibility online.

Wiki Exercise #3: Information overload
The term "Information overload" is mentioned in the Bertram Gross's book in 1964 and be popularized in 1970 by Alvin Toffler. In the internet era, people have an unprecedented access to get any information they want. However, since we have some limits on the capacity for processing information when the various information has been flooded to us, we are dazzled by a maze of information - some of us will be lost in a lot of information and cannot found the ones they need, and the others may not be able to select and ingest the information according to their own need.
 * Introduction

With the rapid advancement of information technology, the surge of the information contributes to the overload. Plus, the information is numerous and jumbled - there are vast amount of false information spilling over to our lives. More details on the causes can be read here [1 ]
 * Causes

There are various solutions to deal with the issue - there's a vast amount of information out there and we cannot use them effectively. For instance, remember to use the library! When doing the research, you many save innumerable hours wandering the Internet - endless Web searching and get nothing you virtually need. The library would be helpful to get the information more easily and time-saving, in other words, you don't have to waste time on verifying the information.
 * How to solve this problem?

"Data is like food. A good meal is served in reasonably-sized portions from several food groups. It leaves you satisfied but not stuffed."[2 ] Likewise the information, we will be best served if we can have access to the reasonable, helpful, and authentic information or data. Although the information in our lives is mass, whereas, just like we need food, we need those information. We still have control over them if we know how to exercise that control. More on the suggestions can be read here [3 Ten Techniques to Manage the Overload]

Reference
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_overload#General_causes 2. http://www.gdrc.org/icts/i-overload/infoload.html 3. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/houghton-jan

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Wiki Exercise #4: Wikibook Project Reflective Account
The basic unit of Wikibook is the concept, and each concept is interpreted by text or pictures or article with pictures. The exercise makes me understand what a concept in the wikibook is. For example, when I tried to contribute to the theme related to Nanjing Massacre, I first thought that Nanjing Massacre itself should be a concept that can be edified. But, when I tried to do so, I found that for each relatively bigger concept, some more and smaller concepts will be broken into. And through linkage, these sub-concepts can be visited. For example, due to the lots of contribution of others, I finally decided to add some content about the American texts of the Nanjing Massacre, and it is the knowledge based on the hard work of collecting and reading the related literature. For example, in the case of Nanjing Massacre, the content of American texts builds on the existing literature and studies. And based on the personal efforts, it can be divided into three categories.

First, the texts from the U.S. news media reporters in China. A total of five foreign reporters Witnessed the Nanjing Massacre, four of whom are American correspondents, they are AP reporter C.Yates McDaniel, Chicago Daily News reporter Archibald Trojan Steele, New York Times reporter Frank Tillman Durdin and Paramount photojournalism agency correspondent Arthur Menken. When the fall of Nanjing, they were in Nanjing. Another correspondent of New York Times in Shanghai and John Powell, the editor of Weekly Review, kept their attention to this event although not in Nanjing during the Massacre.

For the people listed, if someone is interested in, and they can contribute this part of information and knowledge through their efforts. In this way, the content in the wikibook can be enriched. It can be seen, through this way, the related concepts can be linkage to each other. At the same time, the related content can also be presented on the page of the content. For example, under my trial of Nanjing Massacre, some content related to the concept will be presented, and one is Race for kill, and the other is calculation of the number of casualties. In this way, the content can be expanded to a larger range.

Based on personal experience, one of the problems that I think that should be concerned about is that the knowledge shared in the wikibook is edified by people who are interested in the task. The efforts are volunteer and free, and due to the differences in education background, time and energy, the deviation to the task, and even personal tendency and so on, the views in the content of wikibook will be affected by many personal factors and other non-personal factors.

At the same time, even for the volunteers who are interested and deviated, their limitations in understanding some concepts as well as their ability to search and process some data will also affect the quality of the content in the wikibook. In theory, each user can edify the content on the wikibook, and the only issue is that at present, there is no standard to assess the suitability of the contribution. In my own experience, I am not sure what I contributed to the concept is reliable, and after all, it is the result that I collected and reviewed some literature, but, it will be affected by my ability to collect data and the understanding of the data collected.

Marker’s Feedback on Wikibook Project Work
While you have attended to some of the more traditional elements of this assignment (there's evidence of secondary reading, and you demonstrate a relatively good understanding of module content), this is let down by failing to embrace the affordances and challenges of working in a collaborative, digital environment. You have failed to engage with peers in wiki exercises until the final post (which is a substantial part of the assingment), although there's more evidence of engagement in the group discussion pages.

Content (weighted 20%)

 * Your contribution to the book page gives a good brief overview of the subject under discussion in your chosen themed chapter. There is a good range of concepts associated with your subject, and the effort to deliver critical definitions, drawing from relevant literature and scholarship, and your own critical voice in the building of a robust argument is very much in evidence. The primary and secondary sources you found about the chapter’s themes cover a good range and depth of subject matter.

Understanding (weighted 30%)

 * Reading and research:
 * evidence of limited critical engagement with set material, although most ideas and procedures insecurely grasped
 * evidence of independent reading of appropriate academic and peer-reviewed material limited, displaying a qualified familiarity with a minimally sufficient range of relevant materials
 * Argument and analysis:
 * poorly articulated and supported argument;
 * lack of evidence of critical thinking (through taking a position in relation to key ideas from the module, and supporting this position in discussion);
 * lack 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 independent critical ability limited, due to the fact that your grasp of the analytical issues and concepts, although generally reasonable, is somewhat insecure.

Engagement (weighted 50%)

 * Evidence from contributions to both editing and discussion of content suggests somewhat deficient standard of engagement (i.e. volume and breadth of activity as evidenced through contribs)
 * lack of engagement with and learning from other Wikipedians about the task of writing/editing content for a Wikibook
 * Lacking in reflexive and creative use of discussion pages

Overall Mark % available on Succeed

FMSU9A4marker (discuss • contribs) 14:46, 3 May 2016 (UTC)