General

Individual Students will be responsible for leading the class discussion on each chapter of the various readings. The assignments are FIFO, and thus, you should send me email. The current assignments are on the Mentors Assignments page.

While each chapter is different, the following presents a list of possible topics that the mentor should consider.

• You control the discussion, so it is your responsibility to control the class responses. Any faculty are just another discussion member.
• Experience indicates that you should stand during this discussion and be prepared to cut people off and move to different topics.
• You should prepare a single overhead with at least bullets for the following info.
  • Who is the Author of the Chapter, their background, etc.
  • Summary of Chapter
  • What is the main Thesis
  • Highlights of material - key points.
  • What are the questions or areas the class should discuss - base these on text from the author.
  • References to the reality of past insertion of this technology
  • Author's discussion of Social Issues
  • Author's discussion of Security Issues
  • Author's discussion of response to failure,
  • Author's discussion of scaling issues