User talk:Stafoya

This is the user discussion page for Stafoya (talk) 11:57, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
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Wiki Excercise #1 - Educational Project
No Film School is a website dedicated to educating and sharing information about the world of film. It has everything from Do-it-yourself projects for props and equipment to film reviews.

"No Film School is the leading worldwide community of filmmakers, video producers, and independent creatives. No Film School is where filmmakers learn from each other — “no film school” required." - NoFilmSchool About section

This site went live in January 2010 and has grown an enormous following over the years. It has been empowering young filmmakers to be able to make their own films without needing to go to a proper film school. Stafoya (discuss • contribs) 12:06, 16 February 2016 (UTC) Stafoya (discuss • contribs) 12:09, 16 February 2016 (UTC) Stafoya (discuss • contribs) 12:19, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Marker’s Comment

 * A post of this standard roughly corresponds to the following grade descriptor:
 * Fail. Posts of this standard do not address the assignment requirements. They offer little to no engagement with the concerns of the module. They are poorly written and comments are often extremely brief or missing. Entries of this grade may have been subject to admin warnings or take-down notices for copyright infringement. The wiki markup formatting will be more or less non-existent.

RE: Comments on others’ work

 * Luckily, these are on time and ok, pulled up the mark (just!) to a pass - some content, scope and reference to module themes is there, even though I think this could be made much more explicit. Remember that your comments on other people's work is weighted as heavily as your own post when it comes to grades - I think that you could have made more of the format and included citation and links to sources in your comments in order to engage discussion GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 16:59, 26 February 2016 (UTC)


 * 1) Rocketpunch7 (discuss • contribs) 12:15, 16 February 2016 (UTC) Have you ever used the hints and tips that the "No Film School"? If so, What was it and was it any good?

Hi there, man! Do you have any experience in film-making? Thanks! Gvg00001 (discuss • contribs) 22:35, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

I've never heard of this website before, I took a look at it and it seems really interesting but I've found its layout a bit messy. Do you think it could be improved? If so, how? GConcilio94 (discuss • contribs) 20:48, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Excercise #2 Visibility and Online Footprint
Online Visibility is something of a hot topic nowadays with surveillance of all platforms being a very known thing. However, with online experiences and interactions constantly changing, the way visibility is handled must also change. One thing that I have noticed change in the last year or so it that every single web page it seems mentions that it uses cookies for tracking movement online “to enhance your experience by personalizing ads”. With the advent of things like AdBlocker Plus, a browser add-on that, as its name suggests, blocks all kinds of ads including YouTube commercials and website banners. This has forced advertisers, which are the main source of revenue for many sites as well as a huge, important part of the online industry to adapt and change by increasing the use of cookies to track use and advertise more efficiently, it also greatly increases the amount of tracking of web activity. My father is very paranoid about tracking and this has rubbed off on me. He severely limits his visibility by avoiding Social Media. He only has a couple of E-mail addresses for everything and uses a search engine that does not track its users. For me it has made me ever aware of how I am being tracked and makes me want to cut down on my own visibility on the Internet. However, the other side of this coin is the somewhat cynical view that I hold: “they know what I’m doing regardless, so I might as well do what I want and embrace it”. This view is what keeps me on all Social Media and allows me to not care so much how visible I am. I use Facebook mainly, with Instagram following next, and barely any Twitter. There is a certain exhaustion that comes from social media. It is an enormous market and is constantly evolving, and it seems as though there is always another new app, new site, new platform for us to join and proclaim our opinions, share photos, and generally tell everyone about our life. There is some beauty in that but in this culture there sometimes feels like a pressure to constantly update, to constantly share. No one wants to be like that one guy who just uses his E-mail and can not be contacted anywhere else, as if these methods are ancient and obsolete. The response for some, myself included, is a form of surrender, or boundaries. I have that Twitter account but hardly use it, where I seem to constantly check Facebook. We adapt (or lag) by deciding to just slow down and stay with the old products. This, for me, helps eliminate the many other options that I simply would not use and allows me to concentrate on just one to be consistent with.Stafoya (discuss • contribs) 10:04, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Comments

I can relate to your father's paranoia, with worrying that everything I do is being tracked and noted down somewhere that I cannot see or access to edit it; however, most of the time I do try to block that out and go with "Well, nothing's become of it yet, so I guess I should just keep going." I hate how much we all seem to rely on social media for getting through each day, as if we didn't have any methods to cure our boredom before these platforms came along, but you are right in that there is this pressure to be constantly available and online and supportive of your friends by liking their newest selfie on Instagram, for example. There is a mass of new products released constantly, and only a few ever slip through the cracks, but once they do, everyone is on them and they all expect you to be as well. We discussed in a seminar once how someone's friend didn't have Facebook, and it confused other people to no end, as if it was a life-long requirement or something. Having a social presence is almost more important than having a physical presence, in that most people will just talk online in the dark in their rooms rather than go out and do something like walk a hill with their friends. Muir97 (discuss • contribs) 10:36, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

You made an interesting point about Adblocker. Do you think a software such as this should be banned because of it's negative impact on privacy (as you were saying above with cookies) or do you think your personal pages should be free of adverts? HoDstripes (discuss • contribs) 11:17, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

I can also sympathise with your father's paranoia. I find the scale of data collection by governments and agencies quite scarey, not to mention a huge invasion of privacy. Although I do see the need for it when it comes to national security.

Also, I agree that there is pressure to be constantly available. There does not seem to be any time now where you can just switch off and be with your own thoughts. If you do, there's that pressure that you could be missing some important information, when the chances are you're just being paranoid. This is one of the reasons that I have Facebook. There's now an expectation that everyone, who's "normal", will have a Social Media account of some form. I would deactivate my Facebook account, but I fear that I might be left out of certain events. Life would be quite isolated without it, which may not always be a bad thing.Jackgpounder (discuss • contribs) 11:58, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing, you make an interesting comparison between the using habits of social media between two generations. Your sharing makes me think about an interesting comparison of the different attitudes toward the visibility and online footprint between two generations. You describe your father’s habits when he applies social media, which makes me think about my father. My father stared using social media since I decided to study abroad, and the reason for him to use social media is that he wants to know what am I doing and where am I going. Apart from getting understanding of my life, my father barely uses social media, not to mention make friends on any social media platforms. Diffing from my using habits, my father writes only a few comments on the Internet and his comments always accompany with an assumed name. Regarding our parents’ generation, the assumed name and their email address, maybe, are their only privacy protection for them online. What’s more, when my father writes his comments, he will never have trouble with choosing whom to share it, since his comments are always available to all website users. It cannot be denied that our parents’ generation has less consciousness to manage their online visibility. Kellysun960601 (discuss • contribs) 21:18, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Excercise #3 Information Overload
In this age of information the world is seeing more information generated then ever before. The Internet which, according to a 2009 ruling by France’s Constitutional Council is a |basic human right, is seemingly infinite and constantly changing. Users are being exposed to so much information that it appears impossible to deal with. This results in |Information Overload(IO). IO is an increasing problem in both the workplace and in personal life, causing people more difficulty in making decisions, staying focused, and using their energy efficiently. Examples of this can be as simple as deciding where to go out to dinner with your friends. There can be so many options, so many good choices that deciding becomes so difficult that one just gives up and says, “I don’t care, whatever.” It does not have to even be relevant information. With Social Media being such big part of life we can easily just switch to Facebook or Twitter or Pinterest when confronted with a problem that we do not wish to address. Procrastination is easier than ever and can even seem like a good thing when it means “finding out new information”, though it is just choosing something easy over something difficult. Coping with IO can be difficult and takes discipline. An article by Infogineering gives these as ways of coping:

-Spending less time on gaining information that is nice to know and more time on things that we need to know now.

-Focusing on quality of information, rather than quantity. A short concise e-mail is more valuable than a long e-mail.

-Learning how to create better information (this is what Infogineering is about). Be direct in what you ask people, so that they can provide short precise answers.

-Single-tasking, and keeping the mind focused on one issue at a time.

-Spending parts of the day disconnected from interruptions (e.g. switch off e-mail, telephones, Web, etc.) so you can fully concentrate for a significant period of time on one thing.

Personally, IO has affected me like so many others in my generation, in having increased attention problems and difficulty focusing. I have always had some problems with this, but the constant bombardment of information amplifies any ADD tendencies to problematic levels. Studies suggest that IO can lead to higher chances of children exhibiting ADD/ADHD symptoms. When taking in so many different inputs of information so rapidly the brain is essentially overworked. I can certainly relate to this and have experienced all such symptoms. How I deal with it (if I deal with it properly) is I will try to limit the sources of information I go to. I can get overwhelmed very easily and so sometimes just need to step away from it all. I love listening to music and almost always do when I can, though this too is another input that can keep my brain working too long, so it can be beneficial to stay away from that as well by going on “media fasts” for a time. Though honestly, I often just continually take in information and get overwhelmed or procrastinate unnecessarily and have to overwork to do what I needed to do because I run out of time. Stafoya (discuss • contribs) 13:50, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Comments

The way you mention the ways in which people can cope with IO brings an interesting perspective to this problem. I have never thought about the way that we can alter our information flow to handle the amount of information we receive on a daily basis. However, you could argue that this also has negative consequences, especially regarding the first point, 'spending less time on gaining information that is nice to know'. Learning things about subjects that are not necessarily important to your task can still be important to developing your own personal information bank and individual. Also, shorter, concise messages and emails could be seen as impersonal. Nonetheless, I agree with you that the information overload does have negative consequences for many people, and I believe that ways to cope should be taught to people to work more efficiently. Marinieuw (discuss • contribs) 11:05, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Marker’s Feedback on Wikibook Project Work
Aside from correcting a single typo (Cyberbullying) and a brief comment on Barbara Streisand, you haven't really contributed much to the contents of the chapter. Some exercise posts missing, and very little engagement throughout.

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 deficient brief overview of the subject under discussion in your chosen themed chapter. There is a qualified familiarity with concepts associated with your subject, and the grasp of conceptual, factual and analytical issues tends to be limited and insecure. The primary and secondary sources you found about the chapter’s themes lack a secure basis.

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%)

 * 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) 14:59, 3 May 2016 (UTC)