New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Computer and Information Science Department (CIS)

CIS677 Spring 2000
Information Systems Principles
Professor Bieber email: (bieber@njit.edu)
Professor Campbell email: (campbell@homer.njit.edu)

Welcome to CIS677 for Spring 2000! For a listing of the class topics, please see the course schedule. To find out what we do each week, please see the course flow items. Both are posted in the General Information section. For library information, see the resources subsection.

Cheers,
Professors Bieber and Campbell

---

Contents of this Page

• Professor Bieber's Office Hours and Location
• Professor Campbell's Office Hours and Location
• General Information, Class Sites, Resources & Grades
• Lecture Notes and Videos
• WebBoard Conferencing System
• Homework Assignments
• Submitting Assignments (Distance Section)
• Midterm Information
• Record & Grading Sheets (chunking, discussion, etc.)
• Useful Links

---

Professor Bieber's Office Hours: Spring 2000

GITC Building 4212
University Heights, Newark Campus

CIS Department, NJIT
Newark, NJ 07102-1982
(973) 596-2681 fax: (973) 596-5777
E-Mail Address: bieber@njit.edu
URL: http://www-ec.njit.edu/~bieber

• Tuesdays 3-5pm
• and, very willingly, by appointment (please email)

---

Professor Campbell's Office Hours: Spring 2000

311F Technology & Engineering Center
Mt. Laurel Campus
Telephone: (856) 642-0902 extension 4 (fax: 222-1537)
E-Mail Address: campbell@homer.njit.edu
URL: http://www.cis.njit.edu/~campbell

• Wednesdays 1-3pm
• and, very willingly, by appointment

---

General Information

• Course Flow: What you should be doing in CIS677 (formally known as the "checklist") (On-Campus) (Distance Section)
• Weekly Discussion (Distance Section only)
• Schedule & Access to Readings (On-Campus) (Distance Section)
• Syllabus/Course Description (On-Campus) (Distance Section)

Class Sites:

• Semester Projects Teams (Mt. Laurel) (Newark) (Distance)
• Synthesis Pages (Spring '00) (Fall '99)

Grades:

• Grading Spreadsheet (Newark & Distance)
  Note: see comments on the assignment names - move your mouse over the marked cells to see the comments
  

Resources:

• Article Review Guidelines
• Class materials for synthesis: List of Selected IS Models, Theories and Frameworks
• NJIT Library Services
• Doing a Citation Analysis

---

Lecture Notes and Videos

• CIS677 Videos (you need VPN access to view these on-line)
• Lecture Notes and Handouts on the Video Tapes
• Document Management Lecture Slides
  (Powerpoint) (HTML - thanks to the Fall '99 Document Management Team: Abraham De-heer, Joe Konopka and Tom Petite)

---

WebBoard Conferencing System

• Getting Started with WebBoard
• WebBoard entry point

---

Homework Assignments

• Get a WebBoard account - immediately
• Getting to Know You - due 1/25
• Chunking - weekly assignment
• Mentoring (on-campus) (distance) - once a semester
• Mentoring Article Review - three weeks after your mentoring week
• Individual Article Review - proposal by 2/8 (distance) and 2/15 (on-campus); full reviews due 3/7 (on-campus) and 3/14 (distance)
• Semester Project (on-campus) (distance) - progressively throughout the semester

Submitting Assignments (Distance Section)

Please do not email assignments, unless you are outside the United States or Canada. You should "snail mail" assignments to:

Do not express mail anything! Regular mail is fine. If you'll be late by a day or two, just let me know by email.

You can fax short items (e.g., evaluation forms) to (973) 596-5777, but please do not fax anything more than a few pages.

---

Midterm Information

Important Change: See the Administrative Conference. You only have to answer one midterm question. Note: The procedures below have not been updated yet to reflect this.

• Midterm Procedures (updated 4/5/2000)
• Midterm Grading Guidelines
• Which Question to Grade
• Intermediate Evaluation: Which Question to Review
• Selected Midterm Questions

---

Record & Grading Sheets

• chunking record sheet #1 - until Cognitive Aspects - due 5/9
  (on-campus) (distance, includes discussion record)
• chunking record sheet #1 extension - week of 3/7 - due 5/9
  (on-campus) (distance, includes discussion record)
• chunking record sheet #2 - until the On-Campus Semester Projects - due 5/9
  (on-campus) (distance, includes discussion record)
• chunking evaluation sheet (A-B; C-D; E-G; H-Ko; Kr-Ma; Me-Pa; Pe-S; T-Z) - due 5/9
  Note: we will only do one chunking evaluation this semester

---

Useful Links

• IS World Net *** Visit IS World at least once a month! ***
• ISWorld Mailing List (archive)
  *** All people interested in IS research should subscribe directly to the ISWorld Mailing List ***
  - To subscribe, email listserv@listserve.hea.ie with the content: SUBSCRIBE ISWORLD your-full-name
• IS Faculty & Ph.D. Student Directory
• Association for Information Systems
• Society for Information Management
• ACM SIG MIS (ACM's special interest group on MIS)
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• Society for Design and Process Science
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

This page: http://www.cis.njit.edu/~bieber/CIS677S00/