7-31-2010 1:51:26 p. m. (E.S.T.)
Introduction: Missive:
Dear Ms. Swaine,
I understand, from your previous communication to me via email, that you are no longer available to work with me. I understood that yesterday, and I have already communicated to several Deans, your decision to not continue working with me. I saw this morning, that you may have changed your mind. I noticed an email in my in-box requesting a meeting sometime today to discuss the issues which persist in the second half of library management class (summer 2010).
The list of issues/concerns which I have that must be answered and replied to in full, with no exceptions, prior to me agreeing to work with you again are enumerated below. I will not accept you as my instructor, for the remaining final assignments, which are due in this the class, if you neglect to answer or reply in full, to any of the following issues/concerns that I have, related to my completion of the library management course (summer 2010).
You must respond to every issue/concern, in order, one issue/concern at a time, and each response must be clearly identified by the identical subject that I indicated when enumerated my issue/concern this email. The following, are the enumerated issues/concerns, that I have, that must be addressed, prior to me agreeing to work with you on my final assignments, for the remainder of the library management summer 2010 course:
Final Assignment Rules and Regulations:
1) Re: Availability of Current Grade:
My current grade for this course must be available to me at all times. When an assignment is submitted, the grade must be available to me within 24 hours of the submission date/time. There are no exceptions to this rule. If, for instance, I agree to turn in the final assignments on 8-1-2010 by 11:59 p. m. (E.S.T.), then, my grades on all of my final assignments must be posted to my grade book page by 11:59 p. m. (E.S.T.), the following day, Monday 8-2-2010. Due to the fact that I would be turning in my final assignments, my final grade in the course, the grade that will be submitted to the registrar’s office for summer 2010 graduation, must be posted to my grade book page and available as well.
(*Note—I have not agreed to turn any assignments in to you, on 8-1-2010, at this present time. I have not yet, agreed to work with you again, either.)
2) Re: Grade Change:
The grades posted to my grade page must reflect the grades that I have received in the class. The grades currently posted to my grade page have been altered from what was posted on 7-28-2010. Two points have been deducted from my grade on my ethics assignment. On 7-28-2010, my grade on my ethics assignment was a 59, on 7-30-2010, my ethics assignment grade was re-posted as a 57. You are not at liberty to lower my grades once they have been posted by you. You need to add two points to my ethics grade, to reflect the original grade that you posted on 7-28-2010. I have a webpage and a text copy of the grades which were posted by you on 7-28-2010.
In addition, it is my understanding, that the grades posted on 7-30-2010 include my entire attendance/ participation grade for the entire library and management class (summer 2010). You stated several times in our Elluminate meeting on Monday 7-26-2010, and in emails that you sent to me, that there are no more possible attendance/participation points which are attainable for the library management class (summer 2010). It is also, my understanding, from our Elluminate and email communications, that I have received a perfect attendance grade for library management (summer 2010).
Additionally, it is also my understanding that all the assignments that will be grade for this course and which are due in this course have already been posted to my grade page. No additional assignments or grade categories are allowed to be posted to my grade page. All the assignments and grade categories which will be utilized in order to calculate my final grade in library management for summer 2010 have already been posted to my grade page. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Once my final grade has been posted to my grade page, the final grade which I receive in library management for summer 2010, cannot be altered by you. If I believe that the final grade is unfair, or that it does not reflect my quality/quantity of work submitted for the course, I will request, that someone else re-grade my assignments and raise my final grade, so that it is commiserate to the quality/quantity of work, that I will have submitted for the library management course (summer 2010).
3) Re: Grade Submission:
The final grade that I receive in this course must be submitted via email, to the registrar’s office, within 24 hours of it being made available to me on my grade page. As previously stated, my final grade for this course must be made available no later than 24 hours after I submit my final assignments. During the 24 hours between when my final grade is posted, and when the final grade is submitted to the registrar’s office, I will have the opportunity to reject or accept the final grade posted to my grade page as my final grade for this course. If I reject the final grade that you have calculated, you will not submit the final grade to the registrar’s office. There are no exceptions to this rule. I will then have my final assignments re-evaluated and re-graded by someone else, and they will submit my final grade for the course instead.
Ultimately, it will up to me, who submits my final grade for the library management course to the registrar’s office. If I believe, for any reason what-so-ever, that you will not follow this pre-existing agreement, and submit my final grade: when/how/or as, I have previously indicated, then I will elect someone else to submit my final grade in this class. You are not permitted to disagree with me in my previous statement. There are no exceptions to this rule.
The individual whom I elect to submit my final grade to the registrar’s office, will not require your permission to access my grade page to locate my final grade, and that individual will not require your permission to submit the final grade for the library management class (summer 2010) to the registrar’s office. Your permission, regarding the submission of my final grade, is not required at all under any circumstances.
The final grade that is indicated on my grade page, and which must be posted and available to me within the previous time frame stipulated, will be the final grade that is submitted to the registrar’s office, and it is the final grade that will be recorded on my final official transcript, which will verify that I, Ms. Bayo Elizabeth Cary, have earned a Master’s Degree at F.S.U. in library and information science, and that I have graduated summer 2010 (August 7, 2010) with my Master’s Degree and full ALA accreditation .
4) Re: Final Assignment Directions:
Full and complete directions must be provided for each and every section of every final assignment which is graded and which is expected to be submitted. The abridged directions currently posted to the library management course Blackboard site are inadequate and do not provide sufficient directions as to how the final assignments: self-evaluation and (strategic plan/reflection journal ) template should be filled-in/completed. The directions for the final assignments provided by the previous course instructor, as we mutually agreed in both the Elluinate session on 7-26-2010 and by email, are not to be utilized by me for my completion of the final assignments for this course.
You have agreed to provide me with a set of abridged directions for the final assignments. You must follow through with your commitment to me, and provide me with adequate, and abridged, directions for the final assignments, which you yourself have created (abridged). In our Elluminate meeting, you stated that it is not necessary for me to complete/fill-in every section of every template in order to receive full credit (a perfect “A”) for the completion of the final assignments in this course. You must provide me with abridged directions that you have created for every portion of the final assignments which you will grade. Sections that do not need to be submitted and that will not be graded must be noted as well, in the abridged assignment directions, that you must provide.
5) Re: Final Assignment Due Date(s):
The due date for the final assignments, to date, has not been agreed upon, and therefore, the due dates posted to my grade page, for the final assignments are not accurate. The due dates for the final assignments are still, at present, being negotiated. The due date(s) for the final assignments must be agreed upon by both of us and posted to my grade page, but only after we have both agreed upon the date(s). The final assignments due date(s) are flexible, but only if I desire to extend the time period to a later date.
You are not allowed to change the due date(s) of the final assignments without my agreement and you are not allowed to changed the agreed upon due date (s) without my consent, and you are not allowed to decide the final assignment due date(s) on your own, and you are not allowed to make the final due date(s) an earlier date than we have both agreed upon. The due date established by Dr. Kim does not apply to this portion of the library management course, Dr. Kim, as we have already agreed upon (documented in email correspondence) is no longer my instructor for the library management course (summer 2010).
(*Note—I have not agreed upon working with you again-- yet. Presently, I have no official instructor for the library management course, summer 2010.)
6) Re: Grading of Final Assignment:
A very detailed description of what parts of the final assignments will be graded, as well as how each part of the final assignments will be graded, must be provided. I need to know exactly what you expect from me, insofar, as the final assignments are concerned. If you provide detailed instructions for how to complete/fill-in the final assignment templates, but you do not provide detailed information regarding how the final assignments will be graded, then I will earn an “A” in library management (summer 2010) by default.
The final grade of an “A,” must then be entered in to my grade page, and full-credit must also, then be entered for all of my final assignments. A final grade of an “A,” must then be submitted to the registrar’s office as my final grade in the library management course (summer 2010). As previously stated, I reserve the right to elect who submits my final grade of an “A” to the registrar’s office.
(*Note--You must provide both: detailed instructions on how to fill-in the final assignment templates, as well as a detailed description as to how the final assignments will be graded, in order for me to complete the final assignment. A reasonable amount of time, must be allocated as well, for me to complete the final assignments. As previously stated, the due date(s) of the final assignments must be agreed upon by both of us. )
7) Re: Elluminate Session Recording Access:
I must be provided with the link to our previous Elluminate session recording. You have never sent me a link to the Elluminate recording of our session on 7-26-2010. All students are provided with access to every Elluminate recording from every class that they are enrolled in. This section of the library management course, summer 2010, is no exception to that standard practice. You must provide me with the URL to the recording from our Elluminate session.
(*Note--The link to the Elluminate recording of our meeting must be provided today by 7:00 p. m. E.S.T. via email : bayoecary@hotmail.com )
8) Re: Availability:
You must be available to answer any question(s) that I may have regarding the reminder of thisclass, until I receive a verification of both my official transcript with the final grade (the same as indicated on my grade page) and the confirmation of my Master’s Degree earned posted to it (my official transcript), and until I receive an official copy of my Master’s Degree Diploma from F.S.U. .
Final Agreement Between: Dr. Swaine and Ms. Bayo Elizabeth Cary
Your failure to agree to any of the above enumerated: rules/regulations/terms/and/or conditions, will result in me receiving a final grade of an “A” in the summer library management (summer 2010) course by default. I will not agree to work with you again, if you do not sign this agreement, to complete any work/final assignments, and someone else will enter my final grade of an “A” (by default) for the course. Your permission for my final grade submission for this class, to the registrar’s office, by someone other than you, is not required. There are no exceptions to this rule.
(*Note--Your signature, as typed text, indicates that you have read the all of the above stated and enumerated: rules/ regulations /terms/and/or conditions, you clearly understand what you have read, and that you will comply with each and every: rule(s)/ regulation(s)/term(s)/and/or condition(s), without any exceptions at all. There are not exceptions, what-so-ever, to this rule. Your signature also indicates that you understand that you are not allowed to alter this agreement at all, neither is anyone else, I am the only exception to this rule.
This document, sent today 7-31-2010, via email at 1:35 p. m., must be signed and returned by 6:30 p. m. (E.S.T.) today 7-31-2010. No one else is permitted to negotiate with me regarding the stipulations that I have indicated in this document, in your place, and the stipulations indicated in this document are non-negotiable. Your failure to reply to this email, will result in default. As previously stated, a default by you, indicated by you by your failure respond to this email and document, in the affirmative, with your signature affixed to the bottom of the page as text, will automatically result in me receiving a final grade of an “A” in the F.S.U. library management summer 2010 course.)
Please Type Your Name Here (*Note--Your typed name represents your signature and your agreement and consent with this document and the stipulations contained therein.):
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Original Document: "Dr. Swaine: No Longer Available to Work with Me for the Completion of Library Management, summer 2010"
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Re: I am sorry that you are no longer available to work with me. Thank you for your assistance. Someone else will enter my final grade. Ms. Bayo Elizabeth Cary
30/07/2010
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7-30-2010 2:28 p. m. (E.S.T.)
Dear Dr. Swaine,
I recently received a message from you regarding your availability. I am sorry you are no longer available to work with me. I did however notice, that you partially upgraded the grade book, the strategic plan and reflection journal, should have the same due date. According to you, they are the same assignment. What is what you provided the template for. It is unfortunate that you were not also able to provide me with directions, although committed to doing so. You stated that you would provide me with an abridged version of the template directions, which would be created and/or edited by you, and completely different from the strategic plan/reflection journal directions provided by Dr. Kim.
I sent you an email yesterday, stating that I was unable to submit any final assignments to you by 8-1-2010. Final assignments for the library management course include: strategic plan/ reflection journal and the self-evaluation. Therefore, you must have changed my grade page, before you received my email regarding the due date for the final assignments. then you sent me an email, stating that you were no longer available to work with me. Therefore, I am not responsible for turning in any final assignments of any sort to you. Since you are no longer available to work with me, you are no longer my instructor for the library management course. If you are not willing to work with a student, you cannot be that student's instructor. I am sorry that you made that decision.
I enjoyed our first Elluminate meeting. I would have liked to continue to work with you. I thought that our first meeting was a good jumping-off point. I let you know in our first Elluminate meeting that I may have more questions about the final assignments. It is unfortunate that you were not able to answer the questions that I posited in my emails, and that you were unavailable to meet with me in Elluminate again. I have sent a request to the Dean, in response to your unavailability to continue to working with me. Thank you for you time and attention. Someone else will enter my final grade for the library management course summer 2010. I specified to the Dean, what issues we were unable to resolve, in relation to the library management course summer 2010, and alert her to the overall status of the class. Thank you again.
Sincerely,
Ms. Bayo Elizabeth Cary
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7-30-2010 2:28 p. m. (E.S.T.)
Dear Dr. Swaine,
I recently received a message from you regarding your availability. I am sorry you are no longer available to work with me. I did however notice, that you partially upgraded the grade book, the strategic plan and reflection journal, should have the same due date. According to you, they are the same assignment. What is what you provided the template for. It is unfortunate that you were not also able to provide me with directions, although committed to doing so. You stated that you would provide me with an abridged version of the template directions, which would be created and/or edited by you, and completely different from the strategic plan/reflection journal directions provided by Dr. Kim.
I sent you an email yesterday, stating that I was unable to submit any final assignments to you by 8-1-2010. Final assignments for the library management course include: strategic plan/ reflection journal and the self-evaluation. Therefore, you must have changed my grade page, before you received my email regarding the due date for the final assignments. then you sent me an email, stating that you were no longer available to work with me. Therefore, I am not responsible for turning in any final assignments of any sort to you. Since you are no longer available to work with me, you are no longer my instructor for the library management course. If you are not willing to work with a student, you cannot be that student's instructor. I am sorry that you made that decision.
I enjoyed our first Elluminate meeting. I would have liked to continue to work with you. I thought that our first meeting was a good jumping-off point. I let you know in our first Elluminate meeting that I may have more questions about the final assignments. It is unfortunate that you were not able to answer the questions that I posited in my emails, and that you were unavailable to meet with me in Elluminate again. I have sent a request to the Dean, in response to your unavailability to continue to working with me. Thank you for you time and attention. Someone else will enter my final grade for the library management course summer 2010. I specified to the Dean, what issues we were unable to resolve, in relation to the library management course summer 2010, and alert her to the overall status of the class. Thank you again.
Sincerely,
Ms. Bayo Elizabeth Cary
Original Document: "Completion of Library Management, Summer 2010, Inquiry into Grades and Provision of Final Asssignment Instructions"
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The instructions for the assignment are listed on the week 13 Assignments Strategic Plan.
I have entered one grade for attendance. Your attendance grade is 90 points and that is the maximum points available for attendance.
I will address your my grades concern when I am on campus onThursday.
Linda
Linda Swaine, Ed. D.
School of Library & Information Studies
College of Communication & Information
The Florida State University
P.O. Box 3062100
265 B Louis Shores Building
142 Collegiate Loop
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100
407-460-8120
-----Original Message-----
From: Bayo Cary [mailto:bayoecary@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wed 7/28/2010 9:51 PM
To: Swaine, Linda
Subject: Re: Final Grade: Grades Mis-Calculated and Missing on My Grade Page and Final Assignments: Abridged Final Assignment Instructions Missing and Needed Early in the Day on 7-29-2010
7-28-2010 9:48 p. m. (E.S.T.)
Dear Dr. Swaine,
It was necessary for me to slightly alter the format of the final assignment. I was not able to save it as a (Microsoft Word Document).doc/.docx file. I have transferred the document (copy/paste) into an email document. I will send the completed document to you as text in an email as well as the revised self-evaluation on Thursday 7-29-2010, sometime in the evening. I noticed that the directions for the final assignment have not been abbreviated at all. It was my understanding that you would be sending me a shortened version of what was required for the final assignment. I will need the abridged instructions for the final assignment, how to fill in the final assignment template, by Thursday 7-29-2010, in the morning.
It is my intention to submit the final assignments to you tomorrow evening, 7-29-2010. I think that grades may need to be submitted for summer 2010 graduation by this Friday 7-30-2010. Have you had the opportunity to check and see when grades are due as per registrar/graduation requirements for summer 2010 graduation? I will also check, just to be sure. I want to be certain that my final grade in library management is submitted on time to the registrar's office for summer 2010 graduation and degree verification.
Thank you for inserting the attendance grades for the first half of the library management course. I noticed that the grades for the first half of the library management course have yet to be entered into my grade page. In addition, the grades for course attendance, weeks 10-13, have not been entered either. Those grades should be a perfect ten, as well. I met with you this past Monday at 6:00 p. m. (E.S.T.). That was the soonest available meeting time. I was excused from attending the previous library management courses. We do not have time to meet again, because grades may due this Friday 7-30-2010(the time that the grade may be due on Friday 7-30-2010, is important as well).
Could you please up date the grade book when you send me the directions for the final assignment template, tomorrow morning, on Thursday 7-29-2010? I need to be able to see all the grades that will be aggregated to calculate my final grade. Finally, the grade which is presently entered in the grade book (actual points) 411/413 (possible points), is not accurate, based on the grades that are currently present on my grade page. The 3 extra credit points that I earned have not been entered into my over-all possible points. The overall grade to date should be: (actual points) 414/413(points possible). Thank you so much for your continued assistance. I look forward to your prompt reply.
Sincerely,
Bayo Cary
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The instructions for the assignment are listed on the week 13 Assignments Strategic Plan.
I have entered one grade for attendance. Your attendance grade is 90 points and that is the maximum points available for attendance.
I will address your my grades concern when I am on campus onThursday.
Linda
Linda Swaine, Ed. D.
School of Library & Information Studies
College of Communication & Information
The Florida State University
P.O. Box 3062100
265 B Louis Shores Building
142 Collegiate Loop
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100
407-460-8120
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Sent: Wed 7/28/2010 9:51 PM
To: Swaine, Linda
Subject: Re: Final Grade: Grades Mis-Calculated and Missing on My Grade Page and Final Assignments: Abridged Final Assignment Instructions Missing and Needed Early in the Day on 7-29-2010
7-28-2010 9:48 p. m. (E.S.T.)
Dear Dr. Swaine,
It was necessary for me to slightly alter the format of the final assignment. I was not able to save it as a (Microsoft Word Document).doc/.docx file. I have transferred the document (copy/paste) into an email document. I will send the completed document to you as text in an email as well as the revised self-evaluation on Thursday 7-29-2010, sometime in the evening. I noticed that the directions for the final assignment have not been abbreviated at all. It was my understanding that you would be sending me a shortened version of what was required for the final assignment. I will need the abridged instructions for the final assignment, how to fill in the final assignment template, by Thursday 7-29-2010, in the morning.
It is my intention to submit the final assignments to you tomorrow evening, 7-29-2010. I think that grades may need to be submitted for summer 2010 graduation by this Friday 7-30-2010. Have you had the opportunity to check and see when grades are due as per registrar/graduation requirements for summer 2010 graduation? I will also check, just to be sure. I want to be certain that my final grade in library management is submitted on time to the registrar's office for summer 2010 graduation and degree verification.
Thank you for inserting the attendance grades for the first half of the library management course. I noticed that the grades for the first half of the library management course have yet to be entered into my grade page. In addition, the grades for course attendance, weeks 10-13, have not been entered either. Those grades should be a perfect ten, as well. I met with you this past Monday at 6:00 p. m. (E.S.T.). That was the soonest available meeting time. I was excused from attending the previous library management courses. We do not have time to meet again, because grades may due this Friday 7-30-2010(the time that the grade may be due on Friday 7-30-2010, is important as well).
Could you please up date the grade book when you send me the directions for the final assignment template, tomorrow morning, on Thursday 7-29-2010? I need to be able to see all the grades that will be aggregated to calculate my final grade. Finally, the grade which is presently entered in the grade book (actual points) 411/413 (possible points), is not accurate, based on the grades that are currently present on my grade page. The 3 extra credit points that I earned have not been entered into my over-all possible points. The overall grade to date should be: (actual points) 414/413(points possible). Thank you so much for your continued assistance. I look forward to your prompt reply.
Sincerely,
Bayo Cary
"CEO Bayo Cary's Opinion: Regarding the Group 2 Assignment Submitted on: 7-7-2010 and 7-9-2010"
Group CEO: Bayo Cary
REFLECTION JOURNAL
TEMPLATE (provided by instructor, Dr. Kim, "Library Management: Summer 2010")
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Reflection Journal: Homework Assignment: Library Management: Summer 2010
Student Name: Bayo Cary CEO
Team Number: Group Work and Assignment
Type of Information Organization: Technology Seattle, Washington
Role in the Strategic Plan: CEO
LIS 5480 Management of Information Organizations
Reflection Journal
Group: Planning Session
Documentation:
A.) What I Did:
I showed up at the Group meetings and attempted to discuss what type of information organization we were going to base on final project on. My team members did not attend. I decided on technology and assigned myself the CEO and gave the other members roles as well. I understood from the class chat that it was permissible, if the other group members did not attend the group meetings, to go ahead and assign roles. This was the first group meeting that I was made aware of and the first group meeting that I attended. Had I been informed of more, I would have been present. I never missed a meeting or a class while I have been enrolled in the library management class--voluntarily.
B.) What my Team Did:
Analysis:
My team began communicating on the discussion board (D. B.). I responded to team members comments. I asked several times when the Group members would like to meet again. When no one responded I sent emails to my fellow group members. They responded that they preferred to keep the discussion to the Group D.B.
. I reluctantly agreed. The next Group meeting was confirmed by a fellow Group member and I agreed to attend, and I showed up.
Evaluation:
The Group is not working well together. Although, I am not having trouble delegating responsibility, the rest of the group seems to be having difficulty communicating: honestly, effectively, and in a timely manner with both me and with each other as well. This is unfortunate because it is difficult to work as a group when no one is willing to do any of the work. Or when someone does all of the work but does not receive enough: appreciation, attribution, money, praise, etc., for their work, which should be commiserate to the effort extended and/or the quality of work provided by an individual for their contributions to the group. I have a very bad feeling, after the "plagiarism" incident which occurred in the last group that I participated in, that my fellow group members expect me to do all the work. I hope I am wrong.
Comments on Resources:
No resources were provided by any Group members but me. I hope there will be more to write about next week. I am very “hopeful” that this group may be better than the last one that I was assigned to. It would be really nice if we could all get along and work together, or if Group members could at least show up at the agreed upon scheduled meetings.
Group #2 Planning Session
Documentation:
A.) What I Did:
I came to the Group meeting that was scheduled and confirmed--again. My fellow Group members did not show up--again. I wanted to discuss where the technology information facility was located what we were going to be writing about. I waited a while. Then I left. I was disappointed that no other Group member showed up, although the meeting time had been agreed up by my fellow Group members. I posted a comment to the Group D.B. regarding the fact that everyone else missed the scheduled and agreed upon meeting--again. Group members said that the meeting had been rescheduled. However, nobody notified me prior to the meeting time. There was no post to the D.B. regarding a re-scheduled Group meeting until after the entire Group missed the previously scheduled meeting--again. I confirmed the time of the next Group meeting and I agreed to attend. I showed up to the next agreed up and scheduled Group meeting.
B.)What my Team Did:
The team and I decided that Seattle Washington was a good place for the technology information center to be located. Another team member was in charge of research and provided data for the submission of assignment 1 that was due today 7-9-2010. I critiqued the data that was submitted and stated that the information about the library in Seattle was incomplete, insufficient, not very realistic, and was not expressed in terms that were clear enough.
Analysis:
I thought that there was no excuse for Group members to be continually missing meetings, and that my fellow Group members should have tried to contact me and renegotiate, if they were going to be unable to meet at a time that we had already agreed upon. I think that the Group members should not have chosen to use only what is available on Blackboard to communicate. There is nothing wrong with the email system at F.S.U.. My fellow Group members should have felt comfortable writing each other emails about the impending assignment that was due on 7-9-2010.
Evaluation:
The Group members are not working cooperatively or cohesively. I am doing most of the work. Too many meeting has been missed by fellow Group members and there have been too many excuses regarding absences. I am feeling like I am being taken advantage up and that my fellow Group members believe that I should do all the work because I am the CEO. I think that this is unfair situation and that I am in a very bad situation due to my fellow Group members continual lack of: Group meeting attendance and overall lack of contribution to the impending assignment. If my fellow Group members thought that they could have done it any better on their own then, they should have sincerely, tried.
Comments on Resources:
My fellow Group members have not provided an adequate amount of resources or information to incorporate in to the assignment which is due 7-9-2010. fellow Group members have not even enough research or information to make it worth while to record what little effort other Group members made. I am sorry to say that my fellow Group members appear to be lazy and unwilling to exert themselves. I think that they are not serious enough students to be in a graduate studies program and that they should have done something else instead. I am not happy about doing all of the Group work and assignment, when I am supposed to be working in a group. I am not willing to continue to do all of the Group work after this assignment is turned in.
Group #3 Planning Session
Documentation:
A.)What I Did:
I again attempted to attend the Group meeting that was scheduled and agreed upon by fellow Group members. However, I was frustrated by the previous lack of contributions provided by my fellow Group members. I chose to request that me fellow Group members decide to let me out of the Group. They declined my request and continued to expect me to do the majority of the Group's work. My fellow Group members also communicated to the professor that I had not been at the meeting that day and they made it seem like I was not interested in working with the Group, although I had sincerely attempted to. I was in fact at the Group meeting on that particular day. My fellow Group members made the mistake of sending me emails regarding the meeting which had been held on that particular day, which they lied to the professor about and stated that I had not attended. My fellow Group members email communications confirm my attendance at that particular Group meeting. I wrote the professor and let her know that I had not missed the meetings and that she must have misunderstood what the students told her regarding my attendance at scheduled and agreed upon Group meetings.
B.) What my Team Did:
My fellow Group members tried to dissuade me from leaving the Group. Then my fellow Group members sent me several emails regarding my departure from the Group, even though the Group had decided on no email communication what-so-ever. I responded to their pleas to remain a Group a member, very calmly and politely, and then I let my fellow Group members know that: they had been taking advantage of me and expecting me to do all the work with no commiserate recognition for all the work that I had done (or attribution). I followed up my displeasure with the second Group experience in library management(summer 2010) by writing the professor of the course, Dr. Kim, and requesting to be allowed to work alone for the second time, within the same class. I have never had this problem working in Groups in any other university, in any other town, or in any other class, anywhere. I think that my two Group experiences in the library management course at F.S.U.(summer 2010) have been very abnormal and unfortunate. Dr. Kim failed to reply to my second request to work independently.
Analysis:
The Group is still not working well together. The lines of communication are down. I had to complete the final draft of the Group assignment on my own, as CEO (re-submitted 7-9-2010). In addition, the corrections that I suggested for the final assignment, were never made. The amount of information made available in the final assignment, could have been easily provided by a third grader. The final draft of the Group assignment is not up to my standards and does not reflect the quality or quantity of work that I complete on my own or that I am capable of when I work on my own. I am certain that this will not in any way affect my grade for the Group assignment. I have continuously turned in work, throughout this semester, and my two years in the F.S.U. Master's program which is of a much higher standard i both quality and quantity. I have a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. in the F.S.U. Master's program, thus far, as a reflection of my continued "original" effort exerted.
Evaluation:
Working in a group may be helpful for some individuals, however, combining someone who still is struggling with fundamental: syntax, prose, semantics, and research skills, with someone who has advanced research and writing techniques, is not beneficial to either individual. I have been in college for almost 15 years. I presently have over 200 undergraduate credit hours in almost every subject area in which classes are provided on college campuses nationally. I have also been a participant in college level honors programs and I have received numerous: distinctions, honors, and scholarships, since I first began my university studies in the summer of 1994. I am not interested in working with a group of people who are not as capable as myself and who are not able to keep-up.
Comments on Resources:
My fellow Group members did not discuss resources, however, a draft was posted to the file exchange of what my group members believed would be an accepted draft to submit for a grade for the assignment on 7-9-2010. The assignment was submitted on 7-7-2010. I received an email from the professor that our Group assignment had been approved. I was disappointed by the quality of work of the Group assignment which was submitted on 7-7-2010, so I simply made a few corrections and contributed what I thought had been left out of the assignment which was submitted on 7-7-2010. Then as the Groups CEO I re-submitted the assignment on 7-9-2010, prior to the due date/time, for a second time.
Documentation:
The Time-Line/Group Proposal Plans/Group Member Participant Assignments: are Due July 9th 2010 prior to 11:59 p. m. and should be submitted by the groups CEO, Bayo Cary, prior to when it is due.
Documentation:
A.)What I Did:
We did not meet a fourth time. The group members never showed up anyway and the assignment was already submitted. I was disappointed, yet again.
B.) What my Team Did:
My fellow Group members have been traveling all over the country attending ALA meeting in Washington, etc. . The course is online and there is Internet available at almost every hotel everywhere in the United States. However, my fellow Group members, have still been unable to make the Group meetings, and they have also been unable to communicate with me about their inability to attend Group meetings prior to missing the meeting, and then they have repeated the same mistake over and over again. Einstein says that if you do the same things you should expect to get the same results and that is the definition of insanity.
Analysis:
The Group is not working well together at all. The Group members are not trying hard enough to contribute as individuals. They continue to expect me to do all the work. I can do bad all by myself and would prefer to take total control and ignore their suggestions and their opinions because they are not helpful at all, they do not follow through, and they expect me to be grateful to them for allowing me to be part of their underachieving Group. If I am going to do tons and tons of work then my fellow Group members need to be grateful to me. I deserve attribution and commiserate rewards. "Plagiarism"" is a very serious academic offense. I am sorry that some people in the F.S.U. Graduate School of Library and Information Science have not taken the time to read the student hand book and student honor code.
Evaluation:
This particular classroom environment which is being facilitated by Dr. Kim seems to be full of students who do not know what it means to be honest and fair and hard working. I am sorry that things in this class are so different from things in the other classes that I have taken at F.S.U. . Perhaps there needs to be higher standards applied, when deciding on who is let into the F.S.U. Graduate School Program in Library and Information Science. Students reflect the university that they attend. Students which have poor morals and ethics damage the reputation of the university where they were lucky enough to have the opportunity to be educated.
Comments on Resources:
None of my fellow Group members showed up, yet again. No resources were contributed by anyone but me. I truly hope that I get credit for what I have contributed by my professors. I have copy upon copy upon copy of all of my work and email all email communication related to this library management course (summer 2010). That should not be necessary. If anyone challenges me as to the legitimacy of my work, or my grades, or my contributions, I am ready and willing to file a complaint, to press charges, and to "bring-it."
REFLECTION JOURNAL
TEMPLATE (provided by instructor, Dr. Kim, "Library Management: Summer 2010")
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Reflection Journal: Homework Assignment: Library Management: Summer 2010
Student Name: Bayo Cary CEO
Team Number: Group Work and Assignment
Type of Information Organization: Technology Seattle, Washington
Role in the Strategic Plan: CEO
LIS 5480 Management of Information Organizations
Reflection Journal
Group: Planning Session
Documentation:
A.) What I Did:
I showed up at the Group meetings and attempted to discuss what type of information organization we were going to base on final project on. My team members did not attend. I decided on technology and assigned myself the CEO and gave the other members roles as well. I understood from the class chat that it was permissible, if the other group members did not attend the group meetings, to go ahead and assign roles. This was the first group meeting that I was made aware of and the first group meeting that I attended. Had I been informed of more, I would have been present. I never missed a meeting or a class while I have been enrolled in the library management class--voluntarily.
B.) What my Team Did:
Analysis:
My team began communicating on the discussion board (D. B.). I responded to team members comments. I asked several times when the Group members would like to meet again. When no one responded I sent emails to my fellow group members. They responded that they preferred to keep the discussion to the Group D.B.
. I reluctantly agreed. The next Group meeting was confirmed by a fellow Group member and I agreed to attend, and I showed up.
Evaluation:
The Group is not working well together. Although, I am not having trouble delegating responsibility, the rest of the group seems to be having difficulty communicating: honestly, effectively, and in a timely manner with both me and with each other as well. This is unfortunate because it is difficult to work as a group when no one is willing to do any of the work. Or when someone does all of the work but does not receive enough: appreciation, attribution, money, praise, etc., for their work, which should be commiserate to the effort extended and/or the quality of work provided by an individual for their contributions to the group. I have a very bad feeling, after the "plagiarism" incident which occurred in the last group that I participated in, that my fellow group members expect me to do all the work. I hope I am wrong.
Comments on Resources:
No resources were provided by any Group members but me. I hope there will be more to write about next week. I am very “hopeful” that this group may be better than the last one that I was assigned to. It would be really nice if we could all get along and work together, or if Group members could at least show up at the agreed upon scheduled meetings.
Group #2 Planning Session
Documentation:
A.) What I Did:
I came to the Group meeting that was scheduled and confirmed--again. My fellow Group members did not show up--again. I wanted to discuss where the technology information facility was located what we were going to be writing about. I waited a while. Then I left. I was disappointed that no other Group member showed up, although the meeting time had been agreed up by my fellow Group members. I posted a comment to the Group D.B. regarding the fact that everyone else missed the scheduled and agreed upon meeting--again. Group members said that the meeting had been rescheduled. However, nobody notified me prior to the meeting time. There was no post to the D.B. regarding a re-scheduled Group meeting until after the entire Group missed the previously scheduled meeting--again. I confirmed the time of the next Group meeting and I agreed to attend. I showed up to the next agreed up and scheduled Group meeting.
B.)What my Team Did:
The team and I decided that Seattle Washington was a good place for the technology information center to be located. Another team member was in charge of research and provided data for the submission of assignment 1 that was due today 7-9-2010. I critiqued the data that was submitted and stated that the information about the library in Seattle was incomplete, insufficient, not very realistic, and was not expressed in terms that were clear enough.
Analysis:
I thought that there was no excuse for Group members to be continually missing meetings, and that my fellow Group members should have tried to contact me and renegotiate, if they were going to be unable to meet at a time that we had already agreed upon. I think that the Group members should not have chosen to use only what is available on Blackboard to communicate. There is nothing wrong with the email system at F.S.U.. My fellow Group members should have felt comfortable writing each other emails about the impending assignment that was due on 7-9-2010.
Evaluation:
The Group members are not working cooperatively or cohesively. I am doing most of the work. Too many meeting has been missed by fellow Group members and there have been too many excuses regarding absences. I am feeling like I am being taken advantage up and that my fellow Group members believe that I should do all the work because I am the CEO. I think that this is unfair situation and that I am in a very bad situation due to my fellow Group members continual lack of: Group meeting attendance and overall lack of contribution to the impending assignment. If my fellow Group members thought that they could have done it any better on their own then, they should have sincerely, tried.
Comments on Resources:
My fellow Group members have not provided an adequate amount of resources or information to incorporate in to the assignment which is due 7-9-2010. fellow Group members have not even enough research or information to make it worth while to record what little effort other Group members made. I am sorry to say that my fellow Group members appear to be lazy and unwilling to exert themselves. I think that they are not serious enough students to be in a graduate studies program and that they should have done something else instead. I am not happy about doing all of the Group work and assignment, when I am supposed to be working in a group. I am not willing to continue to do all of the Group work after this assignment is turned in.
Group #3 Planning Session
Documentation:
A.)What I Did:
I again attempted to attend the Group meeting that was scheduled and agreed upon by fellow Group members. However, I was frustrated by the previous lack of contributions provided by my fellow Group members. I chose to request that me fellow Group members decide to let me out of the Group. They declined my request and continued to expect me to do the majority of the Group's work. My fellow Group members also communicated to the professor that I had not been at the meeting that day and they made it seem like I was not interested in working with the Group, although I had sincerely attempted to. I was in fact at the Group meeting on that particular day. My fellow Group members made the mistake of sending me emails regarding the meeting which had been held on that particular day, which they lied to the professor about and stated that I had not attended. My fellow Group members email communications confirm my attendance at that particular Group meeting. I wrote the professor and let her know that I had not missed the meetings and that she must have misunderstood what the students told her regarding my attendance at scheduled and agreed upon Group meetings.
B.) What my Team Did:
My fellow Group members tried to dissuade me from leaving the Group. Then my fellow Group members sent me several emails regarding my departure from the Group, even though the Group had decided on no email communication what-so-ever. I responded to their pleas to remain a Group a member, very calmly and politely, and then I let my fellow Group members know that: they had been taking advantage of me and expecting me to do all the work with no commiserate recognition for all the work that I had done (or attribution). I followed up my displeasure with the second Group experience in library management(summer 2010) by writing the professor of the course, Dr. Kim, and requesting to be allowed to work alone for the second time, within the same class. I have never had this problem working in Groups in any other university, in any other town, or in any other class, anywhere. I think that my two Group experiences in the library management course at F.S.U.(summer 2010) have been very abnormal and unfortunate. Dr. Kim failed to reply to my second request to work independently.
Analysis:
The Group is still not working well together. The lines of communication are down. I had to complete the final draft of the Group assignment on my own, as CEO (re-submitted 7-9-2010). In addition, the corrections that I suggested for the final assignment, were never made. The amount of information made available in the final assignment, could have been easily provided by a third grader. The final draft of the Group assignment is not up to my standards and does not reflect the quality or quantity of work that I complete on my own or that I am capable of when I work on my own. I am certain that this will not in any way affect my grade for the Group assignment. I have continuously turned in work, throughout this semester, and my two years in the F.S.U. Master's program which is of a much higher standard i both quality and quantity. I have a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. in the F.S.U. Master's program, thus far, as a reflection of my continued "original" effort exerted.
Evaluation:
Working in a group may be helpful for some individuals, however, combining someone who still is struggling with fundamental: syntax, prose, semantics, and research skills, with someone who has advanced research and writing techniques, is not beneficial to either individual. I have been in college for almost 15 years. I presently have over 200 undergraduate credit hours in almost every subject area in which classes are provided on college campuses nationally. I have also been a participant in college level honors programs and I have received numerous: distinctions, honors, and scholarships, since I first began my university studies in the summer of 1994. I am not interested in working with a group of people who are not as capable as myself and who are not able to keep-up.
Comments on Resources:
My fellow Group members did not discuss resources, however, a draft was posted to the file exchange of what my group members believed would be an accepted draft to submit for a grade for the assignment on 7-9-2010. The assignment was submitted on 7-7-2010. I received an email from the professor that our Group assignment had been approved. I was disappointed by the quality of work of the Group assignment which was submitted on 7-7-2010, so I simply made a few corrections and contributed what I thought had been left out of the assignment which was submitted on 7-7-2010. Then as the Groups CEO I re-submitted the assignment on 7-9-2010, prior to the due date/time, for a second time.
Documentation:
The Time-Line/Group Proposal Plans/Group Member Participant Assignments: are Due July 9th 2010 prior to 11:59 p. m. and should be submitted by the groups CEO, Bayo Cary, prior to when it is due.
Documentation:
A.)What I Did:
We did not meet a fourth time. The group members never showed up anyway and the assignment was already submitted. I was disappointed, yet again.
B.) What my Team Did:
My fellow Group members have been traveling all over the country attending ALA meeting in Washington, etc. . The course is online and there is Internet available at almost every hotel everywhere in the United States. However, my fellow Group members, have still been unable to make the Group meetings, and they have also been unable to communicate with me about their inability to attend Group meetings prior to missing the meeting, and then they have repeated the same mistake over and over again. Einstein says that if you do the same things you should expect to get the same results and that is the definition of insanity.
Analysis:
The Group is not working well together at all. The Group members are not trying hard enough to contribute as individuals. They continue to expect me to do all the work. I can do bad all by myself and would prefer to take total control and ignore their suggestions and their opinions because they are not helpful at all, they do not follow through, and they expect me to be grateful to them for allowing me to be part of their underachieving Group. If I am going to do tons and tons of work then my fellow Group members need to be grateful to me. I deserve attribution and commiserate rewards. "Plagiarism"" is a very serious academic offense. I am sorry that some people in the F.S.U. Graduate School of Library and Information Science have not taken the time to read the student hand book and student honor code.
Evaluation:
This particular classroom environment which is being facilitated by Dr. Kim seems to be full of students who do not know what it means to be honest and fair and hard working. I am sorry that things in this class are so different from things in the other classes that I have taken at F.S.U. . Perhaps there needs to be higher standards applied, when deciding on who is let into the F.S.U. Graduate School Program in Library and Information Science. Students reflect the university that they attend. Students which have poor morals and ethics damage the reputation of the university where they were lucky enough to have the opportunity to be educated.
Comments on Resources:
None of my fellow Group members showed up, yet again. No resources were contributed by anyone but me. I truly hope that I get credit for what I have contributed by my professors. I have copy upon copy upon copy of all of my work and email all email communication related to this library management course (summer 2010). That should not be necessary. If anyone challenges me as to the legitimacy of my work, or my grades, or my contributions, I am ready and willing to file a complaint, to press charges, and to "bring-it."
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