User talk:Sleepyzoe

This is my discussion page. I'll be using this to discuss and conduct my educational assignments.

Please feel free to contact me here about my contributions to my assignments.

Sleepyzoe (discuss • contribs) 15:49, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise #1: Educational Assignment
Right now one of my favourite things on the internet is Google Maps. Obviously, "normal" maps' general usefulness of helping you plan journeys and redirecting you when you're lost are great, but as someone with a very poor sense of direction, they personally tend to disorientate me more than they help me. Google Maps' street view, however, is an enormous help for me. Going into street view and "walk" it is one of the best ways to visualize the whole journey, like seeing what buildings to look out for if you need to make a turn. It's one less thing to have to worry about if you are, like me for example, going to a job interview in a part of town you're not familiar with, or planning your transport for a holiday abroad.

But all of this useful stuff is not really why it's one of my favourite thing; what I like is the games. My current favourite is Geoguessr, where you are placed in a random part of the world, and you have to guess on a world map where you are. You can also play different modes like "famous monuments" or specific countries. Most of the time, you will be stuck in a country road that can pretty much be anywhere in the northern hemisphere, but sometimes you're at a beach, or in the middle of a city, or my personal favourite: mountain roads.

The second game was really popular in 2011, particularly on Tumblr, but has also been spread around on 4chan and breifly Facebook. This was often called the "airport" game, where you had to use Map Crunch, and pretend you woke up in a random location and had to make your way to the nearest airport so you can go home. Understandingly, if you are not in a big city where you can follow road signs, it can be impossible (or at the very least extremely time consuming) to get to an airport. People playing this game on Tumblr would make several posts detailing their 'adventure' finding an airport, often with screenshots of anything interesting they saw on the way, sharing speculations of where in the world they are or their frustration of "driving" for an hour with no signs of an airport anywhere, and the obligatory celebration post of when they did find an airport. These posts detailing their journey, despite it being all on their computers and on Google Maps, were being shared like it was real. This whole phenomenon was very much a big performance, since clearly no one playing this game had actually woken up in a strange place, no one had to drive for hours looking for an airport. The majority of people participating this this game and making posts about their progress were probably in their home, in their pajamas, with a nice cup of tea, and had zero intention in spending money on a last-minute plane ticket on that day. And yet they still shared this virtual adventure on their social media, expressing their feelings of frustration or accomplishments, and inviting others to join in on their adventure. The site has since updated, so if you do want to play this, you will need to go into "options" and select "Stealth" to hide the location. If you want to know more about this game or see examples of the kid of posts people were making (and how much attention these posts received), you can find some information here.

Aside from the games and the everday-usefulness of Google Maps, there are also some beautiful locations from all over the world to view. Oessa is a blog that collects the most scenic places on Google Maps, with screenshots and coordinates if you wish to view them yourself. It includes indoor locations such as castles or art galleries, underwater locations, the tops of mountains, spring blossom parks, the middle of the Amazonian rainforest, and many, many others.

Sleepyzoe (discuss • contribs) 18:50, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Comments
I really find this cool and informative. Google is adding so many features all the time that it's near impossible to know them all! Google Doodles and Games are great to discover, such as the Pacman Game or various others. I don't quite know what to think of it - Google is primarily this internet search giant that happens to run a number of very profitable software. Yet they release Doodles, Games and others (such as the Map Game you talk about) which fulfil no apparent reason. I keep on wondering what their purpose is... Maybe they just know that us humans are inherently playful, and it gives you one more reason to use the site. -- Chickpeanut (discuss • contribs) 22:02, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

As someone who also isn't great with directions, I'm totally on board with your appreciation for Google Maps. I genuinely would have gotten lost countless times if it weren't for the app on my phone. When I was in London with a friend of mine, we didn't go anywhere without checking out our route on Google Maps first. I also once got completely lost in my hometown, and managed to only make it home by using the maps on the app to get me to a familiar part of the city... I made it home, hours after I was supposed to, and had to explain to my family the embarrassing story of getting lost in the city I'd lived in for 18 years. I love the idea behind those games you've mentioned, and I never knew they actually existed until reading your post! Although, since I've been a user on Tumblr for 5 years, I did witness the hype over the airport game. I never participated because it always confused me, so your post has actually been quite informative for me! I'm quite a lazy person, and I'm not keen on travelling, so I think that kind of game would actually suit me quite well... I could stay in the comforts of my own home and travel the world through the use of the internet. Brilliant. Gnivs (discuss • contribs) 13:18, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

I can absolutely relate with you on this. As a person with an embarrassing amount of anxiety when I'm trying to make my way to somewhere I've never been before (more-so when coming to live here in Scotland where literally everything is new and different) I find an odd sense of reassurance when mapping out the journey first using google maps, and nowadays I find myself doing it before every journey I go on. While there is probably a lot of people from our generation that don't really mind getting lost and just 'going for it' when exploring someplace new, I think some of this anxiety might be a generational thing. Because of the advances in technology in the past couple of decades, we have access to this type of knowledge; access that other generations didn't have the opportunity to use, and therefore just had to 'go for it' and, in general, trust people. It seems like nowadays most people would rather trust websites like google maps and use GPSs rather than asking people for directions or actually using printed-out maps. Maybe this access to all this technology has made this generation more untrusting? Or perhaps more travel-anxious? Definitely something interesting to think about! --Raquelita96 (discuss • contribs) 23:30, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

I found this really interesting. When going to a new place for the first time I rarely leave without scoping out exactly where I'm going on Google Maps first. It has rescued me on countless occasions. I had no idea that these kinds of games existed until this article. For a long time Google Maps has been the first online space I go to to conquer boredom, often over social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook. I find it ridiculously easy to spend an obscene amount of time clicking on streets in countries that I have never even thought about visiting before. Google Maps allows people to nurture their thirst for travel and scope of the world from the safety of their bedroom. It's a extraordinarily modern way to see more of the world online and I think I will be spending even more time on there after this article! EilidhNo.2 (discuss • contribs) 23:47, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise 1: Formative Feedback
This is an interesting discussion of how people have built games on top of the Google Street View platform that is well written and makes good use of wiki markup. It would have been nice to see you tie this back to module themes and further your critical engagement with the subject. Bear this in mind for your future wiki exercises. Your comments demonstrate a good level of engagement with your classmates beyond offering platitudes. Make sure to keep up the level of critical engagement and bear in mind that engagement is equally as important as your initial response to the exercise.

A post of this standard roughly corresponds to the following grade descriptor: Good. Among other things, good entries will make a clear point in a clear way. They will relate concepts to original examples in a straightforward fashion. They will make effective use of the possibilities of the form (including links, as well as perhaps copyright-free videos and images, linked to from Wiki Commons). They may also demonstrate a broader understanding of the module's themes and concerns, and are likely to show evidence of reading and thinking about the subject material. The wiki markup formatting will be very clear. Sprowberry (discuss • contribs) 10:32, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise #2: Visibility and Online Footprint
'Visibility' online is a very complex thing, and with it comes issues like privacy and unsolicited data collection about individuals (such as Cookies), but also about performance, and reality. Are you really "visible" if you are not your "true" or "authentic" self online? To try and answer this, I "googled myself" to see what I could find, since as far as I know I'm the only person in the world with my full name. I saw some weird links that are hosting my long-deleted instagram and twitter profiles I had when I was 15 years old, with pictures of myself back then, but it's not too embarrassing or potentially harmful, and nothing recent. There's also my Etsy account, and a link to a search on facebook for a "Zoey (surname)", but no link to my actual profile. There's also a lot of pictures of kitchenware and a shoe website of which I am not related to in anyway. Apparently Google found about 32,300 results, but only 338 when searching my name in quotation marks. Cleary, googling myself is not an accurate representation of who I am, but I am visible to some degree. However, my full name is not the only way I could be visible on the internet, there's also other online profiles I've created (with or without my real name), and content that I have generated and published online (from small comments to artworks). I'll try to briefly discuss which sites I'm visible on, in what ways I'm visible on them in terms of how personal they are. I will say how many people I'm interacting with on each platform, including whether it's a one-way or two-way process of interaction. I will also discuss which of these platforms are interlinked to each other and therefore can widen my visibility. I will additionally discuss what my icon and name is on each platform, as I beleive that it's very much linked to anonymity and performance. I currently use a different username on all platforms.

Facebook
My current Facebook account was a re-created when I was 16, so it's pretty new compared to most people. I use my real first and last name. I had a cartoon avatar as my profile picture for a while, but changed it to a selfie when I went to uni. I let people tag me in pictures, but didn't let it show on my timeline until I started working in a summer camp in the US last summer, mostly so I could share pictures of me with my family. Before this, my timeline was completely empty other than birthday wishes. My privacy settings allow the public to see my profile picture, cover picture, and friends only. Then my friends can see where I was born, where I lived in the longest for, my highschool and my university, but not what I'm studying, or anywhere I've worked at, but I have several photos of me in my uniform, I have pictures tagged in the camp, and I have liked their page. It's very rare for me to post a status or share anything, and have only liked about 30 pages. I would never share anything remotely political. I currently have 106 friends, and it's fluctuating between 100 and 120 right now. I unfriend people at the drop of a hat, and have unfollowed about 40% of my current friends, mostly because they posted too much. I tend to distrust people with more than 1000 friends. I have some photographs from Instagram on my timeline, but is otherwise not connected to any other platforms, with the exception of a few mobile games.

Tumblr
I have had Tumblr for almost 6 years. I use my real first name as well as a username, but not my last name. I also share my age, nationality, and current country. I share my facebook details with close friends (only about 5 people so far) because it's impossible to properly have a conversation with anyone on Tumblr. I occasionally post selfies, but very few, and my icon is a cartoon character. I talk about a lot more personal or political things on Tumblr than I do on facebook, mostly through text posts. I also make regular posts called 'edits' on Photoshop, mostly about Disney movies, and I post my own art on my sideblog, but I would never dream of putting any of this on facebook. The way I write on Tumblr is different and a lot more casual from public posts on Facebook, but similar to how I write messages on Facebook. I have about 4.5k followers right now, so I am making a less personal posts now that I have a bigger 'audience', and I have 20 followers on my art sideblog, but I post very irregularly on there. I follow about 400 blogs, but that number can be anywhere between 300 and 600, depending if I have been on any following (or unfollowing) 'sprees'. I have 30k posts, with about 98% of those being reblogs. I have been active on Tumblr every day for those 5+ years minus maybe 50 days total. I have links to my Instagram, Youtube, 8tracks, and Vine on my profile.

Instagram
My Instagram account is public, and about 1.5 years old. I share my first name, nationality, current country, age, and a link to my tumblr account. My username is not my real name, but the icon is of my face. I have 160 photos total, and geotag about 80% of my photos because I personally really like the map function, especially when it's a new location. I have 70 followers, only about 40 of which I actually know either from "real life" or tumblr, the rest being mostly spambots or people who follow 1k+ people. I follow 180 people, but probably only knowing only 50 or so from "real life" or Tumblr, and the rest being celebrities, artists, or dog accounts.

YouTube
I am subscribed to 200 channels, and have 3 subscribers and 500 views on 3 videos. My likes, favourites, and "happy playlist" are public. My icon is a cartoon character and my username is unrelated to my real name. I watch about 2 hours of YouTube a day, though it is sometimes closer to 4 or 5 hours if I have found new channels. I maybe comment once a week, but usually regret making a comment that receives any type of attention, because I will get notifications from it for months to come. This account is linked to an empty Google+ account with no relation to my real name.

Vine
I never post any Vines, but I 'revine' a lot (300+ vines total, mostly of dogs). I have 30 followers on there for some reason, but I'm certain they are all spambots (interestingly enough, this is the only platform I'm on that I can't see who is following me); and I follow 70. I don't have any links to any other platforms, and my username is just "zoe", and the icon is of my dog. (Because this account isn't linked to anything, here's a link to it if you want to watch approximately 1800 seconds of dogs videos)

8tracks
I have made 13 playlists on 8tracks, the last one was posted on June 2015, but I still get daily notifications from this site saying someone has liked a post or followed me. I have 80 followers, and follow 10 people, but I have never been really that active on this site. The only information about me there is that I live in the UK, and a link to my Tumblr. My icon is a cartoon character, and my username is unrelated to my real name.

Etsy
I made this account this year. This site is not linked to any of my other social media platforms, but has my full name. The only thing you can see on my profile is my list of favourite items (almost 300 items), and my favourite shops. I have 2 followers on there, for some reason. I have the default grey silhouette icon.

Google+
I have a Google+ account only because I have a gmail account, and I am surprised to find that I have an actual follower on it (my mother's cousin, but still), and even more surprised that my page has apparently had almost 20k views? But no one has tried to contact me through this platform. There's my full name and a picture of my face, but nothing else. I also have a separate account for my YouTube so it's not linked to my real name on that platform. That profile has no followers, 11k views, and the same information available on my Youtube account. I think it's safe to say I don't plan on ever using this platform.

(I apologise that I went way over the word limit, but due to the size of my 'online footprint' and the fact I had to consider all platforms I was visible on, this was necessary for me to even attempt to answer this assignment.)

Sleepyzoe (discuss • contribs) 19:40, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Comments
I like that you focused a lot on usernames and follower counts, which is why I decided to look into the same sort of things when I was writing about my online visibility. I feel like those sorts of things are important when talking about how visible we are online because our online personas change depending on the website, and our usernames are a clear indication of that. I agree that it's all to do with performance. I think it's interesting that you've mentioned the well known sites like Facebook and Tumblr, but have also mentioned sites like 8tracks, Etsy and also mentioned Vine. Personally, I don't use Etsy or 8tracks, but I do use Vine quite a lot. I only post videos with one of my friends and they're never funny, the rest of the time I will revine things. I think that we, as a society, forget how much we actually share online and how much of our lives are spread across different sites. I have many accounts across different social media sites and my visibility online is probably scarily high. It's a scary thing to think about, but it's also very interesting looking into how we've presented ourselves to our groups of followers on different social platforms. Gnivs (discuss • contribs)

Wiki Exercise #3: Information Overload
Information Overload is a term for the experience of too much information clouding individual's processing abilities, and since there is a lot of information on the internet, it seems like one of the best places to discuss it. Many claim that now, since we have access to pretty much any sort of information we want through the internet, it's making people 'dumber' because they can google the answer to something instead of doing the "work" by researching the answer in books, or choosing not to care about the answer anymore. Others claim that it this easy access to information makes you not think for yourself, and some express feelings of needing time away from the information so they can think properly and be themselves.

Personal Experience
I have often been told that I scroll through things on the internet too fast. This comment is most often about Tumblr, where I use keyboard shortcuts to jump from post to post on my dashboard (J and K, L to 'like' the post). I decided to quickly time myself to see overall how many posts I would typically scroll through in a minute, and the result was 43 posts. This time, it was mostly pictures, not a lot of text or videos, and only about 3 posts I actually caught my eye; but after using this site for over 5 years I pretty much know exactly what posts are 'worth my time', and which ones can be immediately ignored.

I also have at the very least 5 tabs open in my web browser at all times, but it is currently at 16 tabs, and this morning when I was writing an essay, was over double that amount. My 16 tabs currently include things like email and social media, but there's also 4 other Wikibook tabs, a Wikipedia tab, a Buzzfeed article about what songs I should listen to, a wikipedia article on a specific genre of music I want to know more about, a picture of a really nice mug I keep forgetting to show to my flatmate (who doesn't use Facebook so I can't just send her the link), and the page of a company I have a job interview for in 10 days. I look at all my tabs to see which ones can be closed about twice a day. I also have over 200 bookmarks, which I "clean out" every other month.

However, I do try to reduce the amount of information I don't want, like using an Adblock so I don't have to process any unwanted and distracting advertisements that take up my time and the space of the website I am on. When I get around to reading the articles I have in m tabs, I don't want to look at the side of the article to see that there's a sale at New Look, because I'll end up opening another tab, and I'll want to go to New Look. There's a really interesting YouTube video by the PBS Idea Channel on Adblocking that I would really recommend.

I also sometimes use a timed content-control extension that I use to block Facebook and Tumblr when I need to really focus on something on my computer and don't have the self control to not procrastinate that day, but I only use it maybe once a month. However, I don't think that this is something that is only relevant to the "information overload" on the internet. When I need to focus on something that isn't on the internet, I distance myself from distractions like busy environments, nice views, other people talking, food, etc.

Outside of the internet, I like having lots of information. I'm a big collector, with hundreds of postcards, posters, magazines, books, DVDs, clothes, accessories, etc., as well as hoarding little things in boxes, creating collages and 'books' of things I want to look back on in the future. I'm sure many people would walk into my room and experience "information overload". I'm not much of a minimalist anyways, and I personally don't think it's because of the internet, or that it's a bad thing. Sleepyzoe (discuss • contribs) 00:10, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Comments
I really like what you've said in this post, and I can relate to a lot of what you've said. Specifically the Tumblr comment, I use it everyday and I'm the exact same as you with the speed I can scroll through my dash. I think Tumblr has so much content on it that over the years I've been able to suss out how to ignore the posts that don't really matter to me. In terms of information overload, the amount of content that can be found on Tumblr is immense, and I usually avoid pretty much all of it unless it's something I find interesting.

I will usually have about five tabs open at one time, and it's usually all social media. I enjoy the occasional stalk on Wikipedia through Celebrities pages, or I'll usually look up specific comic book characters if they've appeared in recent Marvel or DC films, which then leads to me opening another 3 or 4 tabs on other characters and comics. I use the internet as a way to find out about things that interest me. I find it interesting that you mentioned the use of your tabs in this exercise!

I don't think you can ever have too much information, on or offline. I think the internet is a great source for that, but I totally admire that you collect things from outwith that environment. I also collect things like postcards, cards, photographs etc. and I love doing that - it let helps you get away from the digital lives that we live online. Gnivs (discuss • contribs) 21:18, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

I found your perspectives here very interesting, especially for someone like me who I think uses the internet in different ways to you. Your point about Tumblr was very interesting. Although I do not have a Tumblr account personally, I also find myself scrolling through social media incredibly quickly, so much so that often people comment that I must not have time to actually read or digest the things I scroll by. I also found your comment about the tabs that you have open at any time interesting. I rarely have more than six or seven tabs open at any one time. Recently I had about ten open when I was filling in complicated paperwork online, however this is unusual for me. The reason I like the minimize what I am looking at online at one time is largely down to the fact that my laptop is incredibly temperamental and does not cope well with lots of of activity going on or tabs open at the same time. I will usually have at least one form of social media open and then also sites such as YouTube and Netflix on a permanent tab as well - a true testament to my procrastination. The idea of you "cleaning out" your bookmarks also stuck with me as well. I have hundreds of sites bookmarked but have never thought of actually sorting out which bookmarks I actually need and which ones I only needed for an couple of hours months ago. I may start to "clean out" mine now too! EilidhNo.2 (discuss • contribs) 13:27, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise #4: Wikibook Project Reflective Account
Collaborations require two or more people to participate in a project together and create an end product. This wikibook project involved 32 individuals - divided into groups of 4s and 5s - to create a "book" about the "Public and Private Spheres" in about a month. We were given no real guidelines on how to go about it or what the end product should look like (other than just have it be so long that the scroll bar should be very very small). Looking at the end product now, it is indeed tittled "Public and Private Spheres", is very long, and I beleive that all 32 people have participated in the creation of this book. By these standards, it could be considered a successful collaboration. I and many others who have taken part in this Wikibook project, however, would probably disagree.

Group Sizes
My subgroup of 5 people who were part of this book, had created a facebook chat group to talk to each other, but as the project started it became very clear that our contributions would not be with each other but with the other 27 people who we mostly had never met and had no way of contacting other than on the wikibook discussion page. Evidently, the discussion page had to become a chatroom and a place to plan and brainstorm ideas for 32 people for such a broad topic. Once we realised that we have to interact with the whole group (only about 2 days into the projects), we found that two other subgroups had already organised the whole discussion page's layout, and had already allocated which parts of the project they were doing, leaving very little for the >15 other people in this project.

This left us completely lost, and created an unwanted hierarchy of those who got first choice and who was left to either create their own subject they knew very little about or to beg the others to let them contribute on their coveted topics. It was, however, useful that some of the people who were first to start the discussion page seemed to be very knowledgable of the topic and of wikipedia formatting itself. This created somewhat of a mentor/novice relationship like one described by Jenkins et al 's definition of participation, but as I have said, created a hierarchy and tensions between the group. I definitely did not feel an atmosphere of "strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations with others".

Overall, my subgroup was generally confused as to why we were in these smaller groups in the first place. I believe it would have been more useful to either get assigned a topic as individuals and form a group around that topic, or to work on separate wikibooks on the same topic as the smaller subgroups. The later would've been quite beneficial as we could compare each group's takes on the same topic. In any case, I strongly beleive that there were far too many people in this book for it to work properly.

Language Barrier
I personally found it very hard to get used to the wiki markup language, which was not a problem I thought I would encounter since I have been completely HTML and CSS literate from the age of 14. I found this language to be very unintelligible and particularly messy. There was help available if you looked hard enough, but instructions on how to use the language doesn't mean the language itself to be useful, clear, or user-friendly. It was nearly impossible to add your contributions on the discussion page in the main table set out used without the aid of search and find. I beleive that this was definitely a big obstacle for the group, and discouraged a lot of people to contribute more in this project, including myself.

Knowledge Sharing
Another problem was that these kinds of collaborative projects require the participants to have the knowledge in the first place before they can share it. Whilst "no one knows everything, everyone knows something" is true, you still need to know something relevant that the other people in the group don't know for it to be useful in this project. For this, you had to get a pretty good idea of what Public and Private Spheres is about; what are the main topics, academics, and theories, are involved within it; and then find your way around the discussion page to see if anyone has already claimed it as their own. If you are lucky enough to get a topic, you then have to research it since, chances are, you don't know anything about it. After all of this, you can then contribute the book with your "knowledge".

Additionally, due to the sheer number of participants, it was very hard to divide the book properly as a team, and I think that many aspects of the topic was lost because of it. There are still sections of the book that I don't understand how it relates to Public and Private Spheres in any way.

Finished Product
Overall, the wikibook we have created is a large and extensive accumulation of knowledge for such a small amount of time and so many problems during the process, which I find very impressive. However, I still think that it is very hard to read, even when not in the editing/wiki markup, and have very little motivation to do so. It still has 472 pending changes to this day, which I think shows just how disorganised it really all was. This whole project has discouraged me to take part in a group project of this nature - or at the very least on wikipedia. There was just so little communication, both within the project itself and with our instructions and outside help for the project, I think that it's a wonder we made this book at all.

Comments
You've laid this out really well, and I'm glad you picked up on the tension that was in the group. There was an atmosphere on the blog page, and I think our small group felt that quite intensely. We were left feeling confused and like we didn't really have much choice of what we were meant to contribute to the page. This is why working with this many people wasn't a great idea. It definitely was lucky that some people seemed to have some knowledge of how to work the site, because the Wiki markup wasn't as easy to use as I had presumed. I hadn't realised about the still pending edits, and I agree that that does show how disorganised it was. It was a stressful project to try and complete, and I feel as a large group we did do our best to finish it. Maybe if we had had some more help and guidance for the project we would have all had a clearer idea of what was expected of us, and how we were supposed to work the site. Gnivs (discuss • contribs) 14:49, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

I really appreciate how well you've voiced your opinions here, and I think that most students on this project would agree with you. I think overall the entire format was problematic and led to unnecessary confusion, tension and stress among groups. I especially agreed with your points about the hierarchy that became evident in our chapter of the Wikibook. A handful of students were clearly far more advanced in the layout and technical workings of Wiki than everyone else and this created an uneasy online work environment. I too did not feel supported in this task that should have been about expanding our communicative and group skills. EilidhNo.2 (discuss • contribs) 14:06, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Marker’s Feedback on Wikibook Project Work
You demonstrate a fair range of engagement and contribs over a period of time. There is evidence of your understanding of module themes through reflections in the exercises, but it would be useful to be less descriptive and more analytical, although the exercises improve chronologically. Chapter contributions would benefit from further critical analysis and secondary reading.

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 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 to a variable standard (i.e. volume and breadth of activity as evidenced through contribs)
 * Satisfactory engagement with and learning from other Wikipedians about the task of writing/editing content for a Wikibook
 * Reflexive, creative and fairly well-managed use of discussion pages using deployment of somewhat limited judgement relating to key issues, concepts or procedures

Overall Mark % available on Succeed

FMSU9A4marker (discuss • contribs) 14:51, 3 May 2016 (UTC)