In Internet & Society class tonight, we’re talking about the shift in the digital space from consumer of information to users. A key text: Yochai Benkler’s “From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation Toward Sustainable Commons and User Access.” Case in point: weblogs. Our guest lecturer in class is Shenja van der Graaf, … Read more
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
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.