New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Computer and Information Science Department (CIS)
CIS677: Information System Principles, Spring 2000
Professors: Michael Bieber and Catherine Campbell

Class Mentoring Assignment - On Campus Sections - Version 1.1

Goal

To give you experience in researching and presenting a topic, as well as getting everyone more involved in the class and discussion.

Assignment

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 mentoring team will have the following duties for your assigned class: 

Before Class

Your mentoring team should generate a citation analysis of each of the assigned articles. List the citations found in a separate on-line comment for each article in the WebBoard Citation Analysis conference for your section. (Separate guidelines for a citation analysis guidelines are posted on the class Web page.)

Post your citation analysis to the citation analysis WebBoard conference for your section using the format in the citation analysis guidelines.

Prepare Class Handouts

Make one copy of each of the following handouts for everyone in your section (25 for the Mt. Laurel sections, and 70 for the Newark sections).

1. Definitions
   As a handout, please make a list of all definitions you encountered in the week's articles 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.
2. Questions
   List of the 20-25 most interesting questions from the chunking conferences for the two articles. Group them by categories. Do not include questions posted by mentoring team members, only those from other class members.

The top of each handout must include:

• the mentoring group team's names
• a title

You do not need to hand out your citation analysis or mentoring article review.

In Class

1. Introduce Yourselves

Please start by introducing each member of your team.

Then, whenever anyone speaks, he or she should reintroduce him- or herself again individually to the class.

2. Review Definitions

Start your mentoring session by *reading out* each definition. Ask if there are any questions about each, so each is clear to everyone in class. Keep this reasonably brief - we should not take much time to do this. Please do not give long explanations or examples - just stick to what is on your definition handout.

3. Analyze the 2 Assigned Articles

Lead a brainstorming session on each of the assigned articles. We're going to collaboratively build a critical review of each article together.

Do not do any "presentation" as an introduction. Just launch straight into this exercise.

Go through each of the categories in the Article Review Guidelines posted on the class Web site except the brief summary. We can assume that everyone has read the article.

4. Moderate a Class Discussion on the Chunking Questions

Moderate a discussion starting from your list of chunking questions. Begin by reading out the questions on each list. Then either pick the first question to discuss or ask the class to pick one. Your team should not answer the questions, only point out who should be talking at any time.

After Class: Mentoring Article Reviews

Follow the instructions posted in the Mentoring Article Review assignment posted on the class Web site.

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