New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Computer and Information Science Department (CIS)
CIS677:
Information System Principles, Fall 2000
Professor Eli
Rohn
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To give you experience in researching and presenting a topic, as well as getting everyone more involved in the class and discussion.
Everyone will be part of a mentoring team one time this semester. The teams will be posted on the course schedule on the class Web site.
Your team will be responsible for setting up and monitoring each of the following class conferences before and during your week:
Your mentoring team will have the following duties:
At least two weeks before your mentoring week, please set up each of the "DL: Article Critique" conferences. For the two articles you are mentoring, please add the categories for discussion from the Article Review Guidelines. Look at the categories under the first article by Brynjolfsson & Hitt as a model of what you should do.
You should be preparing your course conferences.
In the Article Critique conferences, please add the citation analysis to the impact category. Also, please feel free to add a few comments to start the analysis in the tougher categories - not too many, just a few to get people started. (See the citation analysis guidelines posted on the class Web page.)
Please duplicate all preparatory entries you make in each of the Article Critique Conferences conferences.
In each of the Discussion conferences, please make the first entry a short introduction of the mentoring team.
In each of the Discussion conferences, please make the second entry your definitions from each of your mentoring articles. Include all definitions you encountered in the week's readings that are not entirely straightforward for everyone in the class. Be mindful of the different backgrounds each individual brings to CIS677 - what is obvious to you might be a new concept for someone else.
The following duties should run for the Friday before your mentoring week to the Thursday of your mentoring week.
Make sure that the discussion in all of the conferences flows. If the conversation slows, or part of the article analysis is missing, or some important questions have been asked that no one seems to be answering, please add a few appropriate questions to remedy this.
Also, as mentors you should "police" your conferences. Ensure that people are entering their comments in the correct place, and that they are using appropriate topic labels. When people reply to category headings, they usually should change the topic to reflect their comments. (But when they reply to someone else's comment, it often is OK to repeat the topic heading the comment had.) Whenever someone doesn't change the topic label, please email them and ask them to edit their comment and use an appropriate label. (You might suggest a good label as part of your email message.)
Follow the instructions posted in the Mentoring Article Review assignment posted on the class Web site.
This page: http://www.cis.njit.edu/~bieber/CIS677F00/mentoring-dl.html