TeacherReview.com

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A site I created to foster communication among the student body of the City College of San Francisco. It is an interactive site that lets student evaluate the classroom performance of their instructors. It created a lot of controversy and a lawsuit. I ran it from September 1997 to February 2003, before transfering the data to...

TeacherReviews
A site I originally helped engineer to do like the above, but for every university in the world.

Web.Studies: Rewiring media studies for the digital age
For this book, I co-wrote an essay about the website with my colleague, Amy Happ, entitled:, The Teacher Review Debate: Part I: Just what the Internet was made for. It was published in October 2000 and is available from Amazon.

Press / History

1997 September 3   Teacher Review opens for City College of San Francisco students.
1997 October 24Daswani, Rosie & Staggs, Sandy. "Teacher Review: Is Your Teacher Making the Grade?" CCSF's The Guardsman.
1998 February 13Anthony J. "Teacher Review's Fate Uncertain." CCSF's The Guardsman.
1998 AprilAFT 2121's Union Action
1998 May 1Lemos, Robert & Broersma, Matthew. "Teacher review site under fire by profs." ZD Net News.
1998 May 1KPIX Channel 5's 6:00pm and 10:00pm news
1998 May 1Burdman, Pamela. "City College Instructors Claim Web Defamation." San Francisco Chronicle.
1998 May 4AM News Abuse
1998 May 6Carroll, Jon. "Computer This, Computer That." San Francisco Chronicle.
1998 May 15Cartrwright, Shaunn. "Teacher Review:
Ignorance Breeds Censorship
." CCSF's The Guardsman.
1998 May 17"Internet Law Subcommitte Report." Infowar.com
1998 June 1Stephens, Angela. "Free speech or malicious remarks?" Community College Week.
1998 JulyUsed in "Ethics and Values in the Information Age" course at Sonoma State University
1998 JulyBBC Radio 5 Live's Weird and Wired
1998 July.net magazine (UK)
1998 SeptemberInstitute of Communications Studies
1998 September 2SF Bay Guardian's Crib Sheet
1998 October"Teachers plan lawsuit against school for links on Web site." Student Press Law Center Report.
1998 November 9Teacher Review opens for San Francisco State University students.
1998 November 12Article in San Francisco State University's Golden Gater
1998 December 17"Hit and Run No. CLIV." Suck.
--Picked up by Yahoo Internet Life's "Daily Net Buzz" and Wired News.
1999 JanuaryDavis, Champ & Loundy, David. "Long Arms of the Law." Government Technology
1999 January 5Baily, Jay. "Surfing the Net: Let's get digital." The Jerusalem Post
1999 January 27Riley, Sheila. "Should students have a say?" Investors Business Daily
1999 February"Accountability: Teachers." School Wise Press.
1999 October 21"College professors file suit against Teacher Review." Reuters.
1999 October 21KGO Channel 7 6:00pm & 10:00pm news.
1999 October 22Costantinou, Marianne. "Teachers try to ban offensive Web site." San Francisco Examiner
1999 October 22Chang, Harriet. "City College Instructors Sue Over Bad-Mouthing Web Site." San Francisco Chronicle
1999 October 26Leyba, Juliet. "Teachers lash out at City College student web site." The Independent
1999 October 26Leyba, Juliet and Singer, Natalie. "Teachers Sue over web site." Golden Gater
1999 October 27Mendels, Pamela. "Web Reviews of Professors Prompt a Lawsuit." New York Times on the Web.
1999 October 29Rineer, Eric. "U. Nebraska Students' Web Evaluations of Professors Criticized." Daily Nebraskan.
1999 November 2Leyba, Juliet. "Lawsuit threat doesn't faze SF State Student." Golden Gator
1999 November 18Kaiser, Jocelyn. "Online Course Reviews Bare All." ScienceNow.
1999 November 29DeFoore, Jay. "Hot Debate: Grading you professor online." CPNet.com
2000 January 1Zlatos, Bill. "Student Evaluations Raise Eyebrows." Tribune-Review.
2000 January 31An update on the lawsuit: ACLU press release
2000 Winter"Professor declares Teacher Review site defamatory, files lawsuit against creator." Student Press Law Center.
2000 February 15Hollander, Elizabeth. "Your Right to Post." shewire.
2000 March 7Fernandez, Lisa. "Free-speech fight over Webmaster." San Jose Mercury News.
2000 March 7"Teacher wants to curb name-calling at online teacher review site." sfgate.com
2000 March 20Gottlieb, Jeff. "Do Professors Make Grade? Students Tell All." LA Times.
2000 March 24CyberCrime Staff. "Teacher Sues Review Site Operator." ZDNet.com.
2000 March 26 "Professor Syes teacherreview.com Site Operator." Slashdot Thread.
2000 April 6Schevitz, Tanya. "Prof Fights Web Trash Talk." San Francisco Chronicle.
2000 April 6Savage, Mike. KSFO Radio.
2000 April 7"Evaluation website will benefit students." The Lantern.
2000 April 13McIntosh, Neil. "A net too far?" Guardian Unlimited.
2000 April 18"An Author Takes on the Communications Decency Act." Center for Law, Commerce & Technology at University of Washington School of Law.
2000 April 18Ingram, Mike. "Internet free speech under attack in San Francisco libel suit." World Socialist Web Site.
2000 May 1Brown, Doug. "Trash-A-Teacher Class-Action Case Goes to Court." Interactive Week.
2000 May 2Saunders, Debra. "Right to Flame Can't Make It Right to Flame." San Francisco Chronicle.
2000 May 7CNN 1pm PST (4pm EST)
2000 May 8della Cava, Marco R. "Blackboard jungle turns ugly online." USA Today
2000 May 8Knapp, Don. "Dispute over teacher review goes from classroom to courtroom." CNN.com
2000 May 8"chat guest" on CNN.com at 11:00am
2000 May 9Today Show appearance. NBC. 7:00am
2000 May 17FOX News Channel 8:00am
2000 MayAdams, Jane Meredith. "Web Flunkies." e-world.
2000 June 1Carlson, Scott. "Lawsuit Pits 2 Instructors Against Anonymous 'Teacher Review' Postings." The Chronicle of Higher Education.
2000 June 12Dean, Katie. "Do 'Dissed' Teachers Have a Case?" Wired News.
2000 June 13"Teacher Defamation vs. Free Speech For Students." About.com.
2000 June 19Rowlands, Penelope. "Class Action." People.
2000 June 19"oi!" theposition.com
2000 October 3The plantiffs settled: ACLU press release.
2000 October 4Schevitz, Tanya. "Teacher review Web Site Escapes Suit." San Francisco Chronicle.
2000 October 4Reuters. "Professors drop suit against Teacher Review Web site."
2000 October 4Fernandez, Lisa. "College settles suit on Web critiques." San Jose Mercury News.
2000 October 4"Teachers Settle Lawsuit Against Critical Website." cluebot.com
2000 October 4Dean, Katie. "Reviews Are In: Teachers Settle." Wired News.
2000 October 5Carlson, Scott. "2 Instructors Drop Lawsuit Against Web Site That Criticized Them." The Chronicle of Higher Education.