Road Map for Remote Audience Partcipation in the Manual Rotisserie Discussion

For Students OPERATING/ADMINISTERING/RUNNING an E-Lab Manual Rotisserie

As a remote audience member you will be participating in the in-class event via webcast. Following the event, you will have the opportunity if you wish to participate in a week long moderated discussion on the topic of the class in which you participated remotely. Below is a general overview of the moderated discussion process as well as a series of steps that you need to follow if you wish to participate in the discussion.

General Overview:

On Wednesday we will have the in-class event. Following the event each student in the class and any remote participant who wish to engage will log in to the week's discussion on our course website by entering his/her email address and selecting a time-slot at which he/she will be available to meet for a short discussion. On Thursday afternoon the E-Lab will pose a question (using email) to the audience. By Saturday at noon the audience members will have responded to the question via an email sent to the E-Lab. The E-Lab will then break the audience up into small groups of four participants made up according to the times that students selected when they logged in. (Remote participants will have selected a real-time chat time rather than a face-to-face meeting time.) They will send the response of each audience member to a single other audience member within the group of four.

For example, imagine that one small group contains Althea, Betsy, Conrad, and Doris, the E-Lab will send Althea's response to Betsy, Betsy's response to Conrad, Conrad's response to Doris, and Doris's response to Althea. By Monday at noon each audience member will respond to the other audience member's answer directly. For example, after receiving Betsy's original answer Conrad will react to her answer and send his reaction directly back to Betsy. By Monday at noon the E-Lab will also send out an email to all of the members of each small group informing them which other students are in the group. The small group will use this email list to coordinate a place to meet for their discussion. (Remote participants will be notified of a website to log in to in order to participate in their small group discussion. The details of how this will be done still need to be worked out.) The small group discussions will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday before class.

Specific Steps to Participating Successfully in E-Lab Moderated Discussion:

1. At some point after class on Wednesday and before noon on Thursday you must to go to and log in to the week's E-Lab discussion. At this site you will be asked to enter your email address and your choice of a time at which you will be available to log in to a real-time chat-an on-line discussion in which all participants are on-line simultaneously-with three other members of the remote audience (who will be assigned by the E-Lab).

2. By Thursday at 6 p.m. you will have received a question from the E-Lab via email. You must respond to this question by Saturday at noon. To respond you may simply hit the reply button and write your answer. (The address to which you will be sending your answer is elab@cyber.law.harvard.edu.) Answers should not be long (200-500 words) but should be well thought out and substantive. They should be something that will be thought provoking to another student.

3. By Saturday at 6 p.m. you will have received the response of another student forwarded to you by the E-Lab via email. This response will be another student's response to the same question you answered. By Monday at noon you must reply to this response. This reply should be addressed to both the author of the response and to the E-Lab at elab@cyber.law.harvard.edu. The same guidelines apply with respect to length and content. In addition, please be constructive and sensitive in your response.

4. By Monday at noon the E-Lab will have sent you and three other people a group email informing you that you make up a small group that will meet up virtually in a real-time chat space. This email will provide you with the URL to which you must go at the appointed time for your real-time chat. The other people in your small group will have selected the same meeting time as you have, so you will only need to organize a meeting place. (If your group is made up of people who could not meet at any of the featured times, you will also have to organize a time to meet. You should plan on meeting in the real-time chat for approximately 30 minutes and you should use the majority of the time to discuss the E-Lab question.)