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Anyone may watch these
videos. They were designed to help students enrolled in
Contracts I (Course No. 202) at the George Washington
University Law School review the material covered in my
course syllabus. You may obtain a copy of the syllabus
from my home page: http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/gmaggs. |
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System Requirements (very important):
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Internet Explorer.
You should view these lectures using the Internet
Explorer web browser. They may not work with
Netscape, Mozilla, or other web browsers. |
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Internet Explorer
Security Setting. You should set Internet
Explorer to the default security setting. Select
tools, internet options, security, and then click
on "Default Level." |
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RealPlayer. To view and hear the
lectures, the computer you are using must have a
program called RealPlayer. You can obtain the
basic version of this program for free from www.real.com. (You do not need the
premium version of RealPlayer, which costs
money.) |
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RealPlayer Media
Settings. You must set RealPlayer as the
default media player for Real Video and Real
Audio (".rm") files. Open RealPlayer,
and select tools, preferences, content, and then
media types. As a test, click on this file: videotest.rm. If RealPlayer is properly
configured, it should open and play the file. |
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If you are a George Washington
University student and do not have a computer (or cannot
get RealPlayer to work on your equipment), there is an
alternative. You can sign up for a "G1"
computing account at web.cats.gwu.edu/pages/computingaccount. You then can use main university computers
which have RealPlayer installed at computer labs located
in Gelman Library (B01, B05), the Marvin center (G04),
and various other university buildings. Odd as it may
seem, the computers available to students in the law
library no longer have RealPlayer installed on them.
Please direct complaints about this new and surprising
policy to the law library, which adopted the policy after
these videos were made. (The Law Library's Head of
Instructional and Media Services has explained that
RealPlayer has "an obstinate nature when it comes to
running upgrades that makes it very difficult to maintain
on shared public computers.") |
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The law school unfortunatly no
longer has the capability of serving
"streaming" real media files. As a result,
prior to watching each video, you will have to wait for
it to download partially onto your computer. The
downloading process is automatic, but it may take a few
minutes if you have a slow internet connection. |
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Each lecture has a number
of accompanying slides that your computer will display.
You may print out all of the slides by selecting the
"Collection of All Slides" link and using the
print option in your internet browser. |
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If you need to hear a
portion of a lecture again, you can use the
"slide" on the RealPlayer viewer to move
forwards or backwards. You also can pause the video. |
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| Gregory E. Maggs |
| Professor of Law |
| George Washington
University |
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November 25, 2006 |
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