Well, we're off and running. Good session Wednesday night.
(1) To make sure this next Wednesday is as useful, I'd appreciate it
if you'd either (or both) stop by the office for a one-on-one chat or send
me an e-mail regarding (a) your reaction to Karla Tonella's presentation,
especially with regard to [1] how _you_ would like her/us to spend the
time this coming Wednesday evening, [2] in terms of the questions you have,
or Internet-surfing skills you'd like to develop further, (b) the Web sites
you've found, (c) your understanding of the broad _categories_ of topics/issues
regarding the Internet, and (d) which of them are beginning to look like
something you'd like to pursue.
(2) Note, in this regard, that I will be out of town the days between
January 21 and 28 (Thursday through Tuesday -- attending an Aspen Institute
Conference proposing legislation/regulations not unrelated to our seminar).
Much of a "seminar" is, necessarily, a matter of one-on-one discussions
between each of you and me. Thus, to the extent we need to do that during
the first three weeks of class (one of which is behind us) the best days
are going to be Monday through Wednesday, January 19-21 (and then, of course,
January 28-30, once I'm back). The sooner we can begin, and resolve, the
process of picking an area of research for you, and then narrowing your
topic, the easier and more rewarding the semester will be for you.
(3) If you have not yet seen it, you might want to check out the CLS98
Web site. You get to it by going to my Web page (address at the bottom
of this message), clicking on "Teaching," and then on "Cyberspace
Law Seminar, Spring 1998." (a) One of the resources there is a set
of all the memos/e-mail sent you so far. It's a handy way to check to see
if you have everything. (b) You might also want to look at "Resources"
and then "Ezines." The latter provides samples (from last spring,
but equally relevant for this purpose) of the kinds of "electronic
magazines" that are available to you. (They come via e-mail.) At a
minimum, you might want to know about them. Beyond that, there may be some
to which you wish to "subscribe" (I believe they are all free;
instructions on how to subscribe are usually embedded in each ezine) --
or you may have suggestions for me of additional ones.
(4) Contributing sites to our composite, class "ultimate cyberlaw
research resource," and having your paper posted to the Web, are a
part of the seminar assignment. Making your own personal Web page is not.
_However_, if you _do_ have a personal Web page, and have no objection,
I'd like to create a link to it from our CLS98 Web page. Just give me the
URL and you'll be on your way to cyber-fame!
NJ
[19980121]
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).