Media & Entertainment Law Wypadki:About
From Media & Entertainment Law Wypadkis
from Professor Eric E. Johnson at the University of North Dakota School of Law
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Overview
The traditional method of exam preparation for students involves making an outline of the course. Because traditional legal pedagogy eschews using a textbook in lieu of a casebook, the outline fulfills the place of a textbook -- providing a written explanation of the subject matter. I am providing the class with a chance to create an outline as a community -- which we'll call a "wypadki." The wypadki will be enabled with a wiki, the same web application that is behind Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is authored and edited by its readership. Only members of the class will be able to contribute to the wypadki, and each addition, edit, and deletion will be tagged with the name of the contributing class member. I intend to allow students broad latitude in creating the wypadki, though I will step in and provide guidance and restrictions if necessary.
End of Semester and Exam
Toward the end of the semester, after the last day of class and before the exam, I will lock the wypadki. I will then have a chance to review and alter it before leaving it in a final version. Please note that I reserve the right to make any change, deletions, and additions I deem appropriate, in my sole discretion, before or after locking the wypadki. The final version will be made available for download sometime before the exam, and copies will be printed and distributed to all students during the exam for use as a reference in drafting your examination answer.
Contributions
Your contributions to the wypadki must respect intellectual property law. Do not add copyrighted material (regardless of licensing). Limit your contributions to your own originally authored material and material in the public domain, which includes court-issued opinions and statutes. In addition, you may add into the wypadki any class materials that I have authored and posted on the class webpage under the heading "Classroom Notes and Presentations," unless otherwise noted.
Note that your contributions to the wypadki may be used, copied, and/or changed by your fellow students for this course and by others for any education- or learning-related endeavor approved by Professor Eric E. Johnson or his designee.
Registering
Contributing to the wypadki is voluntary, and not a class requirement. If you do choose to contribute to the wypadki, you must register.
To get to the registration page, click on the link in the far upper right corner of your browser window. When registering, please put your name in the following format:lastname.firstname
Use your real name. Pseudonyms will not be accepted.
Registrations need to be approved before you can edit the wypadki. If you register during the accelerated approval period, which will be announced in class, please expect a delay of a day or so between registering and receiving approval. If you register afterward, the delay might be very long, and you might need to remind the professor that you have a pending registration in order to get it approved, so please register during the accelerated approval period. The very last date you can register is March 30. Attempted registrations will not be approved after March.
If the wiki software demands that you provide a biography, please ignore this. You should be able to register your user ID without filling out such a field.
In the past, some users have had technical problems with getting registered and logging on. Because of this, you are well advised to attempt to register early in the semester so that you have time to work out any problems you encounter. If you wait until too late in the semester to try logging on, you may find yourself in a situation where you cannot make any contributions. For technical problems, please contact Mark Conway of the law school’s information technology staff.
Getting Help
If you are unfamiliar with editing a wiki, relax. It is quite easy. Take a look at the Wikipedia Cheatsheet located on the Wikipedia site for some basic formatting tips.
