Mentoring and Presentations

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Mentoring and Presentations

• Elizabeth Bigelow
• CS 15-499C
• September 27, 2000

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Our luck continues..

• One round of mentoring and presentations will be
  dropped from the schedule. But you should feel
  free to schedule addition sessions as needed
• Will need to schedule some optional make-up
  lectures
• If in the early evening, food will be provided
• Discuss time

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Presentations

• Presentations are scheduled for three teams on
  Monday
• Presentations should concentrate on technical
  issues.
• In order to be effective, presentations should
  have handouts for detailed diagrams

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Presentations, continued

• All teams from last week were asked to have a
  follow up meeting with meI was in office at time
  I expected to see you
• It was my intent to give you final suggestions
  for your presentations at that time

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Contacting Me

• My home phone number is on the website
• I have many meetings during the afternoonbut
  will be available to you from 5-7 (or later with
  prior request) most days
• If you dont get an e-mail response as soon as
  you think you should during the day, call at
  home. I often work there during the early part of
  the day

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Mentoring

• Mentoring sessions will be 20 minutes in length.
  Time limits will be strictly observed.
• There are several objectives
• To give project specific feedback
• To allow each team member to contribute
• To practice conveying technical information in a
  professional, succinct manner
• To allow the instructor and TAs to gain insight
  into thought processes and which team members are
  contributing

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Mentoring Dos Donts

• Do recap project proposal
• Do pick out the interesting or difficult parts of
  your work
• Do bring hard-copy of your presentations
  (preferably in power point format)
• Do prepare and check timings
• Do think through whether a summary level diagram
  is more appropriate than a detail diagram
  (usually youll need both)
• Dont try to cover everything

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Continued

• Do provide detail level information on handouts
• Do allow all team members to showcase their work
• Do appoint a note-taker, so that all suggestions
  and action items are recorded
• Do put results of your mentoring session on your
  team website
• Dont panic if you get a number of action items
  from instructional staffif incorporated into
  your work and presentations, will not adversely
  affect grade

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Mentoring, continued

• Dont waste time parroting text book
  informationrather, show how you applied it.
• Dont assume that the TAs or I are as close to
  your project as you are

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Feedback

• Only one team followed guidelines
• When seeking guidance, create a slide
• Outline of Issue
• Pros Cons for each issue considered
• Mentoring sessions should rely less on projector,
  more on hard copy all team members should
  participatemore of a discussion
• Presentations should be formal, using projector
  and laptop. Class should ask questions

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Feedback, continued

• Essential to get in Together J
• Expected for Mondays presentations

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Laptop Logistics

• When you turn the laptop over to someone else,
  send me an e-mail
• Not for extended use by one team
• Turn in to Angie Brookins Wean 5116 or to me if
  shes not in her office (after hours, etc.)