New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Computer and Information Science Department (CIS)
CIS677: Information System Principles, Spring 2001
Professor: Michael Bieber

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Class Mentoring Assignment - Distance Section

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 team will be responsible for setting up and monitoring each of the following class conferences before and during your week:

• DL: Article Critique
• DL: Discussion

Your mentoring team will have the following duties: 

**TWO WEEKS** Before Your Week

At least two weeks before your mentoring week, please set up each of the "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.

Tuesday Before Your Week

You should be preparing your course conferences.

In the Article Critique conferences:

• Please add a comment for the topics "Conceptual or Empirical Article" and "Article Domain and Objectives" for each article.
• Copy your citation analysis to the impact category. Clearly separate the citations from the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index and your Internet search. Add a comment explaining what you learned from the citation analysis.(See the citation analysis guidelines and handout posted on the class Web page.)
• Also, please feel free to add a few comments to start the analysis in the tougher categories (but not synthesis) - not too many, just a few to get people started.

Please duplicate all these entries into each of the Article Critique conferences.

In each of the Discussion conferences, please make the first entry for your week 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.

During Your Mentoring Week

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" the article review and discussion 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.)

After Your Week: Mentoring Article Reviews

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