Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall Semester, 2003

MIT 6.805/6.806/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier (3-0-9)

Weekly writing rotisserie

The weekly writing assignments use a system called the writing rotisserie developed and maintained at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Law and Technology. Here's how it works:
  1. There will be an assignment posted each Friday at 11:00 AM.

  2. You must log in to the rotisserie and post your answer before Sunday at 11:00 PM. Post plain text answers only. No attachments, no HTML formatting. At midnight on Sunday, the system will make all answers visible.

  3. Once all answers are visible, you should log in to the rotisserie again. The rotisserie will pick at random another student's response for you to comment on. Your comments are due before Wednesday at noon. All comments will be made visible on Wednesday at 1:00 PM.
If you do not post your results by the deadlines, you will not receive credit for the assignment. The due dates and times are constrained by the rotisserie program, so please don't ask us for extensions. We can't grant them. You might regard it as sneaky of us to blame the program for our inflexible policy. Think of this as a "code as law" phenomenon, just like the ones we will be studying this semester in relation to digital restrictions management systems.

For more information, see the description of the rotisserie system at h2o.law.harvard.edu.

Registering for the rotisserie

Before you can use the rotisserie, you must register for the rotisserie system, and join the project called MIT 6.085, Fall 2003. Do this as soon as possible after the first class on September 4, when you know you are admitted to the class. The first assignment will be posted on Friday morning, September 5.
  1. Go to the rotisserie page at h2o.law.harvard.edu and register. Please use your real name and actual email address. Keep your browser page open, and read your email.

  2. The system will email you a confirmation key. Use this key to pick a password and activate your registration.

  3. Go to the main rotisserie page and request to join the project named MIT 6.805, Fall 2003. You will receive mail when you have been added as a project participant.

  4. You should now be able to participate in the project, as described above.