A few comments. First, I am delighted that so many of the students posted comments. Second, the lack of uniformity in the screencasts has been because of technical difficulties, and so we are still attempting to get all of them up, which should happen by next week.
And then, on a different note. I thank you again for allowing us the space this month to share our project. We are novices at the beginning of a journey, and you have allowed us to post and get feedback from experts. We are very appreciative. I think what was interesting about this project was the beginning-ness of it--the first steps of law students applying their most basic knowledge of law into a virtual world that they were unfamiliar.
And so where does this project go next? I think I will be writing a law review article on the experiment, but I am not sure. Do we look more seriously into the property questions? I'm not sure. I know Rachel will continue to work in this field (she has a job at Linden Lab for the summer), which is good enough for me. And other students are inspired to do more work, which is good as well. And I saw students take inititive (one became the oganizer of new groups each week, another arranged the in class video conference call with Jason Archinaco, which became the finale for the course).
But for the project itself? I'm just not sure at this point. I am in a space of just enjoying what we have accomplished at the moment. We did it. We took 100 students into Second Life and survived. That is something. We were able to apply and analyze basic concepts of property law to what we saw in Second Life. That is something as well. We created 13 screencasts. We worked well in small groups ( law students are notoriously known for not playing well with others). We had a representative from Linden Lab that began the class and the attorney for the Bragg case that ended it. We blogged at Terra Nova. We will appear on Monday at the State of Play Academy. We felt part of the world, which is not usually the case for a First Year Property class.
Any suggestions or comments on what would be useful as the next step would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you again for allowing us the space to be part of Terra Nova for the month. It was great and thrilling and wonderful...
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