Peer Grading Using the forums Honor Code
Peer Assessments (https://class.coursera.org/googlemedia-001/human_grading/) / Week 2: Google Books Help (https://class.coursera.org/googlemedia-001/help/peergrading? url=https%3A%2F%2Fclass.coursera.org%2Fgooglemedia001%2Fhuman_grading%2Fview%2Fcourses%2F970721%2Fassessments%2F10%2Fresults%2Fmine)
Submission Phase
1. Do assignment (/googlemedia-001/human_grading/view/courses/970721/assessments/10/submissions)
Evaluation Phase
2. Evaluate peers (/googlemedia-001/human_grading/view/courses/970721/assessments/10/peerGradingSets) 3. Self-evaluate (/googlemedia-001/human_grading/view/courses/970721/assessments/10/selfGradingSets)
Results Phase
4. See results (/googlemedia-001/human_grading/view/courses/970721/assessments/10/results/mine)
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Your effective grade is A 20% penalty has been applied because you did not complete the entire evaluation portion of the assessment. Your unadjusted grade is 5, which is simply the grade you received from your peers. See below for details.
Peer Grading After submitting your work (and after the assignment deadline has passed), you will get the opportunity to grade the work of five of your fellow students. Your own work will also be assessed by peers, from which we'll get your grade. Since you've worked hard on your submission and would like your peers to do a good job of assessing your work, please take your time and do a good job of assessing your peers' arguments in return. You will then be required to assess your own work.
Using the forums Your fellow students are a great resource, and we encourage you to sharpen your ideas against them in the forums. There is a dedicated forum for Assignments; if you like, you can post your argument there and receive feedback before submitting your work officially. As you have already seen, the forums are also a place where you can hone your critical thinking about other issues related to Google and the media by engaging in discussions with other students.
Honor Code Please remember that you have agreed to the Honor Code, and your submission should be entirely yours. The definition of plagiarism is fairly straightforward: passing off someone else's work as your own, whether from a peer or a published resource. You
may well need to quote others' material in your work; if you do, be careful to attribute it to its original source, for example: ======== As Jeff Jarvis has said, "Customers are now in charge" ("WWGD?," the first chapter of What Would Google Do?). =========
Is Google's intention to digitize all the world's books a good thing or a bad thing, and for whom? Carefully cite at least two sources from the readings or lectures in support of your answer, which should be no more than 300 words in length.
Although I am definitely on the supportive side of Google's digitization project, I also acknowledge the fact that it also has had its controversies. I am a librarian myself by education and I also remember the times when I went to libraries almost every day to research for my university studies or if I wanted to find some interesting book to read. It was in the beginning of the 1990s, when even Internet access was becoming more and more widespread in Europe, more specifically, in my home country, Hungary. I remember how difficult it was to get access to academic and research papers and foreign books that were essential for my studies. Nevertheless, it is evident for me that making books and magazines available and searchable electronically is something that helps basically everybody: students, researchers, average people looking for information or references, businessmen, artists etc. It gives access to books without obstacles coming from infrastructure, distance, mobility etc. The idea was initially supported also by several US libraries, as Nicholas Carr describes in his article "The Library of Utopia" (www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/427628/the-library-of-utopia/). On the other hand, some of the worries from some well defined audiences are also true. As a librarian myself, with the librarian's mission, I also have to be concerned about the fact that with Google's digitization of books and repository of such a universal knowledge base might lead to a monopoly situation when Google can basically charge whatever they want for the services, which would mean that less and less people would have actually easy access to this knowledge. As Siva Vaidhyanathan (http://www.slate.com/authors.siva_vaidhyanathan.html) states in "Google Block" (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/03/google_block.single.html): "Most clearly, Google was in a position to set the price of these electronic books".
Evaluation/feedback on the above work Note: this section can only be filled out during the evaluation phase.
3 points -- Takes a clear position on whether and for whom the Google Books project is "good" or "bad" -- or convincingly argues that it is both. 2 points -- Takes a position on the question of "good" or "bad," but fails to identify for whom "good" or "bad" applies. 1 point -- Attempts to take a position but applies ideas inconsistently or unpersuasively. 0 points -- Fails to directly answer any part of the question.
Score from your peers: 3
2 points -- Carefully cites at least two sources in the readings or lectures in support of the selected point of view. 1 points -- Carefully cites one source in the readings or lectures in support of the selected point of view. 0 points -- Fails to cite any sources in the readings or lectures in support of the selected point of view.
Score from your peers: 2
Overall evaluation/feedback Note: this section can only be filled out during the evaluation phase.
You may supply overall feedback on the assignment here -- what impressed you, which areas might have been improved. Your peers will appreciate any constructive comments you supply, just as you would.
peer 2 → I can remember the old index system to find journal articles. I much prefer Proquest over Google Scholar. 'I enjoyed your assignment
Submission Phase
1. Do assignment (/googlemedia-001/human_grading/view/courses/970721/assessments/10/submissions)
Evaluation Phase
2. Evaluate peers (/googlemedia-001/human_grading/view/courses/970721/assessments/10/peerGradingSets) 3. Self-evaluate (/googlemedia-001/human_grading/view/courses/970721/assessments/10/selfGradingSets)
Results Phase
4. See results (/googlemedia-001/human_grading/view/courses/970721/assessments/10/results/mine)
4
Your effective grade is A 20% penalty has been applied because you did not complete the entire evaluation portion of the assessment. Your unadjusted grade is 5, which is simply the grade you received from your peers. See below for details.
Peer Grading After submitting your work (and after the assignment deadline has passed), you will get the opportunity to grade the work of five of your fellow students. Your own work will also be assessed by peers, from which we'll get your grade. Since you've worked hard on your submission and would like your peers to do a good job of assessing your work, please take your time and do a good job of assessing your peers' arguments in return. You will then be required to assess your own work.
Using the forums Your fellow students are a great resource, and we encourage you to sharpen your ideas against them in the forums. There is a dedicated forum for Assignments; if you like, you can post your argument there and receive feedback before submitting your work officially. As you have already seen, the forums are also a place where you can hone your critical thinking about other issues related to Google and the media by engaging in discussions with other students.
Honor Code Please remember that you have agreed to the Honor Code, and your submission should be entirely yours. The definition of plagiarism is fairly straightforward: passing off someone else's work as your own, whether from a peer or a published resource. You
may well need to quote others' material in your work; if you do, be careful to attribute it to its original source, for example: ======== As Jeff Jarvis has said, "Customers are now in charge" ("WWGD?," the first chapter of What Would Google Do?). =========
Is Google's intention to digitize all the world's books a good thing or a bad thing, and for whom? Carefully cite at least two sources from the readings or lectures in support of your answer, which should be no more than 300 words in length.
Although I am definitely on the supportive side of Google's digitization project, I also acknowledge the fact that it also has had its controversies. I am a librarian myself by education and I also remember the times when I went to libraries almost every day to research for my university studies or if I wanted to find some interesting book to read. It was in the beginning of the 1990s, when even Internet access was becoming more and more widespread in Europe, more specifically, in my home country, Hungary. I remember how difficult it was to get access to academic and research papers and foreign books that were essential for my studies. Nevertheless, it is evident for me that making books and magazines available and searchable electronically is something that helps basically everybody: students, researchers, average people looking for information or references, businessmen, artists etc. It gives access to books without obstacles coming from infrastructure, distance, mobility etc. The idea was initially supported also by several US libraries, as Nicholas Carr describes in his article "The Library of Utopia" (www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/427628/the-library-of-utopia/). On the other hand, some of the worries from some well defined audiences are also true. As a librarian myself, with the librarian's mission, I also have to be concerned about the fact that with Google's digitization of books and repository of such a universal knowledge base might lead to a monopoly situation when Google can basically charge whatever they want for the services, which would mean that less and less people would have actually easy access to this knowledge. As Siva Vaidhyanathan (http://www.slate.com/authors.siva_vaidhyanathan.html) states in "Google Block" (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/03/google_block.single.html): "Most clearly, Google was in a position to set the price of these electronic books".
Evaluation/feedback on the above work Note: this section can only be filled out during the evaluation phase.
3 points -- Takes a clear position on whether and for whom the Google Books project is "good" or "bad" -- or convincingly argues that it is both. 2 points -- Takes a position on the question of "good" or "bad," but fails to identify for whom "good" or "bad" applies. 1 point -- Attempts to take a position but applies ideas inconsistently or unpersuasively. 0 points -- Fails to directly answer any part of the question.
Score from your peers: 3
2 points -- Carefully cites at least two sources in the readings or lectures in support of the selected point of view. 1 points -- Carefully cites one source in the readings or lectures in support of the selected point of view. 0 points -- Fails to cite any sources in the readings or lectures in support of the selected point of view.
Score from your peers: 2
Overall evaluation/feedback Note: this section can only be filled out during the evaluation phase.
You may supply overall feedback on the assignment here -- what impressed you, which areas might have been improved. Your peers will appreciate any constructive comments you supply, just as you would.
peer 2 → I can remember the old index system to find journal articles. I much prefer Proquest over Google Scholar. 'I enjoyed your assignment
