User talk:4tiggy/sandbox
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[edit]Hi 4tiggy, great start to your draft article. I definitely learned some new terminology here! Appreciate all the links to the published work on the topic. I'm not sure what that photo has to do with it? Perhaps a custom caption would help. You're doing great! Stan mact (talk) 05:15, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
- thank you for the feedback ... intent of image, was to portray what a digital immigrant may look like - this is hard to do while maintaining a NPOV, so I picked an image with an older population & no technology present, just lots of paper. I added a caption, but not sure if it works ... will see, may need to remove. Thanks for your suggestion and feedback.--4tiggy (talk) 06:07, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Ambassador feedback
[edit]Hey there! I'll just point out a few things right now.
- The article is lacking a lead section. The purpose of the lead section is to define the topic, establish context, explain why the subject is interesting or notable, and summarize the most important points. The lead should be able to stand alone as a concise overview of the article.
- The lead sentence might start out with something like this:
The term digital immigrant refers to a person who has adopted the Internet and related technologies, but who was born prior to the advent of the digital age.[1]
A lead section might contain:
The term digital immigrant refers to a person who has adopted the Internet and related technologies, but who was born prior to the advent of the digital age.[2] In 2001, Marc Prensky introduced the term as a counterpart to the term digital native, presented in his article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, which was published in MCB University Press' On the Horizon business journal.[3] The term is additionally found in academic and popular literature to present the differences between the national population pertaining to digital technology, its use, and adoption. In Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, the author compares digital natives with the older generation, the digital immigrants, who are learning and adapting to new technology. - You need to have page numbers and ISBNs for all book citations
- Once you have page numbers, try to find the book on GBooks and link to the page within the citation given
- Make sure not to use ampersands
- Within the "Definition" section, don't use cquote templates within articles
- Add citations directly after sentence stop. No spaces.
- Unfortunately, we won't be able to use the image that you have in the article. The image is of the board of directors of Iceland's National Association of Senior Citizens. When individuals in images can be readily identified, we can only use them for clearly related articles. In this case, only an article about Iceland's National Association of Senior Citizens.
Okay, that's about it for now. Hit me back when you have more questions. Cind.amuse (Cindy) 17:37, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Feedback
[edit]Hi there! This is a very involved process, I am finding! Your article is taking shape- my feedback would be to continue to comb Wikipedia to link it back to existing sites, and to make sure your lead section can be read by and understood by a digital immigrant! :) --Ncsjfreed (talk) 21:11, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- ^ Palfrey, John; and Gasser, Urs (2008). Born Digital: Understanding The First Generation of Digital Natives, U.S.A.: Basic Books, pp. ISBN 978-0465018567
- ^ Palfrey, John; and Gasser, Urs (2008). Born Digital: Understanding The First Generation of Digital Natives, U.S.A.: Basic Books, pp. ISBN 978-0465018567
- ^ http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/prensky%20-%20digital%20natives,%20digital%20immigrants%20-%20part1.pdf]On the Horizon (MCB University Press. Vol.9 No, 5, October 2001)