User talk:MichaelGldbrg

Hello, my name is Michael Goldberg. This is my user discussion page. I will use this to conduct my educational assignments and register contributions with regards to the wikibook project. Feel free to leave a comment.

Wiki Exercise #2: Visibility & On-line Footprint
In today's modern technological age, the majority of people - certainly in the western world - have some form of on-line visibility. Having an on-line presence undeniably has its benefits, primarily that people can stay in immediate contact with one another with very little effort.

I myself am only on Facebook, the biggest and most popular form of social media in the world, as it seems to me that it allows for all manner of social networking activity; such as status updates, photos, videos, instant messaging etc. Other social media outlets, such as Twitter or Instagram, appear to offer a limited or specialized version of this. Through my Facebook account, my friends have access to general information about my life (such as where I work, study and my relationship status). Facebook also allows people to look through photos of me and leave comments or reactions. Fortunately, Facebook has a plethora of privacy settings, allowing the user to control who can see what. If someone is not your friend, they will have access to a version of your account that may be limited to whatever extent the user wants.

I seems as though if someone has no form of on-line presence, they are considered out of the ordinary or perhaps even closed off from the rest of society. In all honesty, I can't imagine life without social media, it's a pervasive part of contemporary life and I would feel somewhat isolated if it were taken away. --MichaelGldbrg (discuss • contribs) 19:17, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Marker’s Feedback on Wikibook Project Work
You seem to have made a single edit to your chapter's content – some material that appears to be straight cut and paste from wiki articles on SOPA and piracy, and have neither included interwiki links (added later) nor citation. Most exercises from the portfolio are missing, and you've not commented on a single post.

Wiki Exercises


 * Assignment responses receiving marks of this standard tend to not contain any merit or relevance to the module. Posts are one-liners, sometimes made up of text-speak. Often they are indicative of failure to comment on other students' posts, and therefore do not engage with the crucial peer-review element. In your case, you did not submit anything in this regard, posts nor comments.

Content (weighted 20%)

 * Your contribution to the book page gives an acceptable brief overview of the subject under discussion in your chosen themed chapter. There is a qualified familiarity with concepts associated with your subject, and although there is an effort to deliver critical definitions, the grasp of conceptual and analytical issues although reasonable, tends to be a little limited and insecure. 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 limited 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 minimally sufficient range and depth of subject matter.

Understanding (weighted 30%)

 * Reading and research:
 * appreciably deficient evidence of critical engagement with set materials;
 * lack of independent reading of appropriate academic and peer-reviewed material
 * Argument and analysis:
 * poor articulation and lack of support in argument;
 * lack of evidence of critical thinking (you tended to not taking a position in relation to key ideas from the module, nor did you support this position in discussion);
 * lack of evidence of relational thinking (you tended to not make connections between key ideas from the module and wider literature, nor did you support these connections in discussion);
 * lack of evidence of independent critical ability

Engagement (weighted 50%)

 * No evidence from contributions to both editing and discussion of content (i.e. volume and breadth of activity as evidenced through contribs)
 * No engagement with and learning from other Wikipedians about the task of writing/editing content for a Wikibook
 * Little or no use of discussion pages

Overall Mark % available on Succeed

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