Mentoring and Presentations

1. Mentoring and Presentations Elizabeth Bigelow CS 15-499C September 27, 2000

2. 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

3. 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

4. Presentations, continued • All teams from last week were asked to have a follow up meeting with me—I 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

5. Contacting Me • My home phone number is on the website • I have many meetings during the afternoon—but will be available to you from 5-7 (or later with prior request) most days • If you don’t 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

6. 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 TA’s to gain insight into thought processes and which team members are contributing

7. Mentoring Do’s & Don’t’s • 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 you’ll need both) • Don’t try to cover everything

8. 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 • Don’t panic if you get a number of action items from instructional staff—if incorporated into your work and presentations, will not adversely affect grade

9. Mentoring, continued • Don’t waste time parroting text book information—rather, show how you applied it. • Don’t assume that the TA’s or I are as close to your project as you are

10. Feedback • Only one team followed guidelines • When seeking guidance, create a slide • Outline of Issue • Pro’s & Con’s for each issue considered • Mentoring sessions should rely less on projector, more on hard copy; all team members should participate—more of a discussion • Presentations should be formal, using projector and laptop. Class should ask questions

11. Feedback, continued • Essential to get in Together J • Expected for Monday’s presentations

12. 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 she’s not in her office (after hours, etc.)