New Jersey Institute of Technology
College of Computing Sciences
CIS677: Information System Principles, Spring 2002
Professor Bieber

A Public Research University

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Class Mentoring Assignment (Distance Sections)

Version 2.01 - 3/7/02

Goal

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

 

Private Team Conference

I will set up a private conference on WebBoard for each mentoring team as soon as the teams are chosen.

 

Mentoring Overview

Everyone will be part of a mentoring team one time this semester. The teams will be posted in a list, and on the course schedule on the class Web site.

We will be choosing mentoring teams in the "Mentoring Team Matchmaking" conference on WebBoard at the start of the semester.

Your team will be responsible for the following (details are listed below):

  1. setting up class conferences before your week
  2. filling in three of the article critique categories on-line for each of your articles
  3. doing the citation analyis for each of your articles and posting it on-line (as one of the three categories in the previous point)
  4. introducing your mentoring team and posting difficult definitions for your articles on-line in the discussion conferences
  5. monitoring the class conferences during your week
  6. writing a full article review for each of your articles after your mentoring week, and submitting it both on paper and through turnitin.coom

 

Details of your Responsibilities:

Your mentoring team will have the following duties: 

 

**TWO WEEKS** Before Your Week

(1) Article Critique Conferences

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 all of the categories for discussion from the Article Review Guidelines:

(a) Entry Head (with full bibliographic reference)

(h) Class Readings

(o) Further Critique

(b) Article Objectives and Domain

(i) Contributions

(p) Issues (Author's)

(c) Article Audience

(j) Foundation

(q) Issues (Evaluator's)

(d) Journal Appropriateness

(k) Synthesis

(r) Impact

(e) Conceptual or Empirical

(l) Analysis

(s) Citation Analysis Appendix

(f) Very Brief Summary

(m) Additional Analysis

(g) Results

(n) General Critique

Enter these categories twice (once for each article your team is mentoring), and then do this three times - once in each article critique conference:

---> IMPORTANT NOTE: Please add each category as a reply to the entry head for each article, not as a reply to the current category on the screen. This way, when people add information under each category, WebBoard will group the category's comments together.

  1. Start by posting the entry head for an article. Create a new posting in an article critique conference. Use the authors' last names for its topic. Include the full bibliographic reference as its comment. (You will find it on the schedule's reading list.)
  2. Then REPLY to this entry head. Use "Article Objectives and Domain" as the topic. Make the comment text: "Please reply to this to comment on this critique category."
  3. Display the entry head again.
  4. REPLY to the entry head (not the previous "Article Objectives and Domain" comment). Use "Article Audience" as the topic. Make the comment text: "Please reply to this to comment on this critique category."
  5. Display the entry head again.
  6. REPLY to the entry head. Use "Journal Appropriateness" as the topic. Make the comment text: "Please reply to this to comment on this critique category."
  7. Display the entry head again.
  8. Repeat this process for all categories.
  9. Repeat this process for the other two article critique conferences, and then for your second mentoring article.

Look at the categories under the first article by Brynjolfsson & Hitt as a model of what you should do.

Again, please make sure to add each category by replying directly to the head entry, not by replying to the previous category.

 

By the Starting Thursday of Your Week

(1) Article Critique Conferences

In each of the Article Critique conferences add a full comment/reply for the categories:

Each is described in the Article Critique Guidelines. There is a separate page on the course Web site for citation analysis.

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

(2) Discussion 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, make the second entry the difficult definitions for the week from each of your mentoring 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.

 

During Your Mentoring Week

The following duties should run for the starting Thursday until the concluding 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 comments to remedy this.

Also, as mentors you should "police" the article critique, technology presentation 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.)

 

Two Weeks After Your Week: Mentoring Article Reviews

Submit mentoring article reviews for your team's two mentoring articles. Follow the instructions in the Article Review assignment.

You can use the materials that the class posts collectively in the Article Critique conferences, if you'd like, as part of your article review.

last updated: 3/7/2002 - Version 2.01 (with many clarifications)

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