Cyberlaw and the Global Economy: First week, plus weblogs

We’re at the end of the first week of Cyberlaw and the Global Economy, a course I’m teaching at Harvard Law School.  Part of the idea of this course, from a pedagogical perspective, is to seek to extend the conversation outside the traditional classroom environment and onto the Net by experimenting with new technologies (students are forewarned … Read more

Teaching with Weblogs

This semester, I’m teaching a class at Harvard Law School entitled “Cyberlaw and the Global Economy,” and I’m going to invite my students to use weblogs as a means of class participation.  The idea is to put online participation through writing to blogs on par, or close to par, with in-class participation.  I expect that some … Read more

Weblogs in education

Very intelligent, thoughtful post about blogs in education by David Carraher, also a day-one blogger.  I’m still trying to figure out how to use blogs in the classroom for a course I’m teaching next Fall at Harvard Law School on Cyberlaw and the Global Economy.  Mr. Carraher’s insights are good ones for starters.

How to use a blog in a class?

I’m thinking through how we might use a blog interface in a class I’ll be teaching this coming fall (Cyberlaw and the Global Economy, it’s called).  Among others, we got an interesting e-mail from the U of T with this example, which is intriguing.  I’d be interested in other examples of specific incarnations of blogs … Read more