<h1 id="your-memex-assessment"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#your-memex-assessment"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Your Memex Assessment</h1>
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<div class="callout-title error" style="background-color: undefined1a;"><span style="color:undefined" class="callout-icon"></span><strong><p>IMPORTANT</p></strong></div>
<div class="callout-content" style=""><p><strong>Having these elements present in your memex is the bare minimum for what a 'satisfactory' might be.</strong></p></div>
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<ul>
<li>have at least five <strong>sources</strong> per module adequately translated into note form
<ul>
<li>Literature notes with the bibliographic info, general summary</li>
<li>atomic notes as appropriate</li>
<li>interlinkages</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="example-memex"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#example-memex"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Example Memex</h3>
<p>**If you'll recall, a 'satisfactory' is somewhere in the range of a C or a B. Go have a look at this online memex: <a href="https://shawngraham.github.io/hist1900c-demo-memex/">https://shawngraham.github.io/hist1900c-demo-memex/</a> What grade would you give it? **</p>
<p>You'll see that it does have</p>
<ul>
<li>five sources
<ul>
<li>each source has the bibliographic info</li>
<li>each source has summary and key take aways</li>
<li>there are a few atomic notes, but there are still a whole bunch of annotations to process</li>
<li>there are interlinkages; there is a sensible structure with <code>sources</code> and <code>thoughts</code> in separate folders (<code>atomic</code> notes and <code>idea</code> notes are clumped together in <code>thoughts</code> which is ok, since every atomic or idea note is tagged, making them easy to find) and each subfolder has its own <code>index</code> note</li>
<li>there is a map of content note providing a way into the memex.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>So everything we asked for is <em>there</em>. What makes this more of a C- than a B is that :</p>
<ul>
<li>there are very few observation/atomic notes
<ul>
<li>the student has extracted them from Zotero where they did the annotations but they are mostly just quotes, just highlights. The student needs to do a bit more gardening and figure out why they highlighted what they did, what the observation is that they're making</li>
<li>there is no coherence to the sources; they seem to be grabbed at random (perhaps there is a rhyme/reason to them, but if so, that should be explained perhaps in the map of content)</li>
<li><strong>They did not use the structured templates I provided</strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Things that we really like that we <em>didn't</em> ask for <strong>as part of the minimum requirements</strong> that push this back towards a B:</p>
<ul>
<li>the student has generated some key phrases based on their observations and make a search at scholar.google.com which they then link to, as something they'll do in the future</li>
<li>in their 'thoughts' subfolder, their <code>index</code> note separates out the atomic notes from the idea notes</li>
<li>in the source note for As We May Think, the student also makes a link outwards to the Wikipedia article that details Bush's life; links alone are handy, and it would be better if there was an indication as to the <em>why</em> of that linking</li>
<li>used the tag <code>todo</code> to signal things that need to be finished.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>So we're looking here at a C+.</strong></p>
<p>Things the student could do to push this example memex towards a B+ or an A (keeping in mind the extra things they already did):</p>
<ul>
<li>Use the provided templates</li>
<li>fully process the annotations</li>
<li>make the <em>why</em> behind <em>these</em> sources in particular apparent</li>
<li>finish the <code>#todos</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Things the student could do to push this towards an A:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>all of the above</strong>, plus (amongst other things and not necessarily limited to this):</li>
<li>use the canvas feature to visually mindmap how ideas/observations/sources interrelated
<ul>
<li>Our online memex doesn't support Canvas, so the student would have to take a screenshot and then add that screenshot to the memex, then embed it in a note with <code>![[canvas screenshot file.png]]</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>a use of the graph feature to visualize the linkages that exist; <strong>again, it'd have to be screenshotted</strong></li>
<li>thoughtful linkages to other students' memexes as appropriate</li>
<li>thoughtful linkages to and/or embedding of other web resources, including video, audio, podcasts, the blogposts of academics or research projects, etc.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>A word about aesthetics</strong>: You'll notice that the actual <em>look</em> of your memex isn't uppermost in our mind, or part of the grading criteria.</li>
<li>I <strong>do encourage</strong> you to think at least about line spacing - things that look ok in Obsidian sometimes don't translate well to the online version. Most of the time, just adding space between paragraphs and headings will solve the issue (see the screenshot below). There <strong>are</strong> things you can do to improve the look and feel of your memex - adding images, adjusting the CSS  and so on. However, Mixa wants you to pay for inserting your own code, so shag that.</li>
<li>These are the things you might choose to do in addition that <em>might</em> lead to a bit of a bonus; you might make a note of what you've done and include that.</li>
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<p><strong>As we move forward, you'll receive feedback on your memex, and so demonstrating that you've taken that feedback on board will also become one of the considerations that we use in evaluating your work.</strong></p>

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