iPad

Don’t hate me, it’s true. Monterey College of Law provided iPads for all students, faculty, and staff in an initiative that started in August 2010. This session will report on what happens when you let the inmates run the IT asylum. Technologists and administrators beware! Sometimes you just don’t need a documented pilot program to know that something is a good idea. Examples for discussion will include the iPad-BarBri connection, cloud study groups, apps that worked (and didn’t), iTunes U, and the law of unintended consequences.

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This panel with be conducted interactively with administrators, faculty, librarians and staff discussing how technology at different levels inpacts our institutions and drives the need for support. As laptops become standard, tablets move into the mainstream and faculty, staff and students with mixed knowledge and experiences with technology become more prevalent, the challenges facing IT support grow and change. Two critical tasks become important. Providing quality support and assessing those services in a manner that leads to improvement.

In 2011 CALI launched the eLangdell electronic casebook series. The first eLangdell e-books will be released at no cost to students or faculty for Fall 2011. Some individual chapters and supplements are already available. Come to this session and learn first-hand from the authors and CALI eLangdell Committee. Learn from author about how they wrote their books and how they use the materials in class. Learn how you can use their books (in whole or part) for free from CALI.

Take the lead to channel the demands for iPad into a regular law school technology planning. Benefits are many: forward thinking, faculty friendly, and systematic. Challenges: training, funds, replacement cycle, app recommendation and innovative use.

I will talk about my experience in launching faculty iPad initiative, its feedback and dos and don'ts.