December 15, 1997
To: Cyberspace Law Seminar ‘98 Participants
From: Nicholas Johnson
Re: Dinner and First Classes
Most, but not all, of you are regular users of e-mail, so I am taking this hard copy means of making sure you're all up to date.
1. If you did not get the December 11 memo by e-mail, I have printed out, and attached, a copy.
2. It refers to a pre-semester dinner. Virtually everyone who responded preferred January 5 to December 29, so the 5th it will be.
But, if I haven't yet heard from you, please let me know if you can come.
And, in case I don't get out details again later: Let's say 6:00 p.m.; informal (law school student) dress. We'll probably have a vegetarian option, but let us know if there are other dietary restrictions. The house is a short walk from the law school.
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3. For the first couple of evenings (January 14 and 21) I am attempting to reserve the "Information Arcade Electronic Classroom" and get one of the best Internet research librarians I know as your instructor. (The facility is in the north end of the first floor of the University's main research library, a five minute walk from here.) (My possible obligations in Tbilisi, Georgia (FSU), are still being worked out as of today, but as I indicated in the earlier memo, may involve my not being here either the 14th, the 21st, or both.)
Of course, we have facilities at the law school as well. But there are a number of Internet/Web-related skills we need to develop: (a) for those who are not yet familiar, the introductory basics on what it is, how it works, how you enter addresses, keep them as "bookmarks," use "search engines," search pages, copy or print out, (b) for those who want it, some basic training in how to make Web pages, and (c) some notion of how you might like your own page to look, by examining others'.
But there are also (d) "library" research skills unique to the Internet generally, and law on the Internet in particular, that are another focus, as well as (e) coming to be familiar with the cyberlaw mega-pages that already exist. And I think the latter two can best be handled by the library staff.
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Note: This Web page contains links to memos related to the Cyberspace Law Seminar taught by former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson in the Spring 1998 semester. It is intended for use by students at the University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, enrolled in the Cyberspace Law Seminar [Catalog: 91:624].
If you are not enrolled in this seminar, although you are not forbidden to examine this page and its links, you are requested to maintain the privacy of those who are enrolled. You will find the pages primarily to be administrative in nature, rather than providing many useful links to substantive material (which can be found, however, on the pages headed "Cyberlaw Research Resource Sites" and, from Nicholas Johnson's Home Page the link to Web Pages, 800 Useful Sites).
-- N.J.
Nicholas Johnson's e-mail address is: 1035393@mcimail.com
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