Via the D’Arcy Norman Dot Net, here’s a great example of the Lessig Style presentation by Dick Hardt on Identity 2.0. A couple of thoughts:

+ Identity is a big thing for the web and this short presentation delivers a even-easy-for-me overview of the issues involved. It’s about all I want to know, and no more, so it’s useful in that the size of the “chunk” is about right.

+ As D’Arcy points out in his post, many of the issues with identity have parallels with using the web for learning (silos, walled gardens, etc).

+ As an extended listening exercise it’s too hard I believe for students under upper-intermediate, although of course you can work around that with your task design. I do wonder if the multimodal aspect of the Lessig presentation style would make it easier for Ss to understand (watch it and you’ll see what I mean).

(As I was creating the links in this post I saw that Presentation Zen (which I posted on last week) had linked to the same presentation, making my post kind of superfluous for many of our readers. But, in case you needed one more prompt to view Dick’s show, here it is.)