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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).

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

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.

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.