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The Earl of Kent, Or How To Bother

Date: 
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Time: 
9:00am
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WestlawNext /TWEN from Thomson/Reuters

Date: 
Friday, June 25, 2010
Time: 
10:30am
Room: 
204

Westlaw has been completely redesigned to bring you a dramatically improved search – with unparalleled research organization capabilities and workflow tools to help you be more efficient and confident in your legal research. All in a clean, intuitive interface!

Law faculty will receive access to WestlawNext starting in late July. Attend this preview and you will also learn how WestlawNext interacts with West’s existing academic platforms, lawschool.westlaw.com and TWEN (The West Education Network).

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Free Law Coalition / Law.gov

Date: 
Friday, June 25, 2010
Time: 
2:30pm
Room: 
207

Law.Gov is a national conversation about broader access to primary legal materials in the United States across all three branches of government and across the federal, state, and local governments. It is a series of workshops across the country that started in January at Stanford Law School and has continued on to major law schools, examining the implications of making the law more broadly available. The workshops have examined copyright restrictions, privacy implications, and the technical underpinnings necessary to provide authenticated access to bulk legal materials.

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Law School Exchange from West

Date: 
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Time: 
2:30pm
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eBook: Standards, Creation, eReaders, DRM and Impact on Legal Education

Date: 
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Time: 
2:30pm
Room: 
207

The launch of iPad and its adoption of the open source epub format has generated considerable interest.  What does it mean for eBook creation, eBook standards, ebook publication and digital rights management, eBook readers and its adoption in law school classroom? Panel members will present their views on the various aspects of the eBook based on their experience. 

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Audio Capture In Every Classroom Using Echo 360 Client Software

Date: 
Friday, June 25, 2010
Time: 
4:00pm
Room: 
207

This session will discuss the experience at Columbia Law School in integrating aduio capture system in 27 classrooms.  The system is based on the Echo 360 sever along with 27 client PCs runing the Echo 360 software.  Lessons learned in this project wil be discussed, including

-  configuration of the echo 360 software to run on inexpensive PCs

-  initial problems encountered with the client/server communications

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Surveying Law Student Technology, Learning Behaviors and Preferences

Date: 
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Time: 
2:30pm
Room: 
103
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Rebooting SecondLife: Machinima as a Teaching Tool for Health Law Regulation

Date: 
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Time: 
1:00pm
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We’ve all heard about SecondLife as a real-time collaborative virtual world, but what about using the video-building possibilities with SecondLife to bring fact patterns to life for your class?  

Machinima, which is computer animation created in real-time 3D graphic virtual worlds or games, offers endless creative and efficient options for video.  With today’s fast-paced, media-rich world,  Georgia State Law Adjunct Professor Randall Hughes wanted to use SecondLife machinima to engage his students during his Health Law Regulation course.

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CALI Author: A Multi-level Workshop on CALI's Authoring Software

Date: 
Friday, June 25, 2010
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1:00pm
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Migration to BePress - the SAAS scholarship repository

Date: 
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Time: 
10:30am
Room: 
204

The Duke University School of Law recently migrated the in-house ePrints based scholarship repository to the SAAS (software-as-a-service) hosted environment called BePress.  We will cover and discuss areas of interest such as:   how to select an SAAS, planning the migration of a live service, customizing the presentation of the service, and the continuing duties to support a successful SAAS implementation.

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