Sessions Accepted

  • The Future (of Web Development) is Now: key features of HTML5 that are ready for the web

    Although HTML has been in continuous evolution since it was introduced to the Internet in the early 1990s, the latest release, HTML 4, has been the recommended standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1997. Over the past few years, however, the W3C has been leading efforts to revise HTML 4 to make it more interactive and more workable in the modern web environment. This standard known as HTML5 is slated for recommendation by 2014. Even though HTML5 is technically still in development, a number of its key features can capably be incorporated into current web design.

    Timothy Wilson, St. Mary's University of San Antonio School of Law
  • The Law School Educational Technologist Survey – 2 Years Later

    In the 2009 law school educational technology survey, we found that while law school educational technologists loved their jobs, the duties and expectations from school to school varied widely. In this session, we’ll explore whether, two years on, our job descriptions have become more standardized. What should law school faculty and staff expect when a law school hires an educational technologist?

    We’ll also feature several current law school educational technologists who will showcase specialized projects and processes they’ve been able to bring to their law schools. Find out what a law school educational technologist can do for you!

    Debbie Ginsberg, Chicago-Kent College of Law
    Barbara Glennan, California Western School of Law
    Chester Kozikowski, Boston College Law School
    Lindsay Matts, William Mitchell College of Law
    Alex Berrio Matamoros, Boston College Law School
  • The Online Faculty Scholarship Workshop: A Social In-House Repository for Early (pre-SSRN) Drafts

    There are limited in-person opportunities for law school faculty to workshop quarter- and half-baked ideas with colleagues. Sites like SSRN provide an electronic option to solicit feedback on drafts, but due to those sites' wide reach, many faculty only post substantially finished work, preferring to keep developing work under wraps from the world at large. To fill the gap, Loyola Law School is developing an in-house repository for article drafts. Faculty can post ideas and drafts electronically, granting access to individually selected colleagues or to the entire faculty.

    Tom Boone, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
  • Transliteracy & Technology Research to create a Legal Learning Commons

    At FSU’s Research Center we want to help our students become transliterate and to successfully bridge the gap between law school and law practice. To do this, we are creating a legal learning commons where students can receive instruction, collaborate, practice legal drafting, perform legal research and gain exposure to technologies that are not typically seen in law schools but are commonly used by lawyers in practice. But before investing in software and hardware we needed to know what technology lawyers are actually using. So we asked them.

    Katie Miller, Florida State University College of Law
    Elizabeth Farrell, Florida State University College of Law
  • Unbound? Unbind, Unwind, Unconference!

    UPDATE: Planning wiki for this session can be found here: http://calicon2011.pbworks.com

    I can't tell you what this program is going to be about because no one will really know until it happens.

    Unconferences are lightly moderated discussions built upon the premise that everyone has something valuable to contribute. There is no "sage on the stage"...everyone can talk and contribute. As a practical matter, they're not that different from round-table sessions.

    Sarah Glassmeyer, CALI
  • University of Texas: Exploring Our New Digital Teaching Courtroom

    Or how we created a grand "Courtroom of Tomorrow" in a modest (small) Moot Courtroom space. One year after we started, come and explore the newly renovated John L. Hill, Jr. Digital Teaching Courtroom. The University of Texas School of Law transformed one of our "ordinary" teaching courtrooms into a state-of-the-art, digital teaching courtroom - dedicated to paperless trials and the latest in digital evidence. Students rotate through the digital courtroom and are taught how to deliver digital evidence, use annotation tools, capture software, etc.

    Karyn Kondoff, University of Texas School of Law
    Andy Martinez, University of Texas School of Law
  • Using Drupal to Gain Visibility with Annual Georgetown Web Site Survey

    In 2009, law librarians from Yale Law School and the Georgetown University Law Center developed a rubric by which they attempted to identify the best law school home pages based exclusively on objective criteria. Most elements require no special design skills, sophisticated technology or significant expenses. Published by the GREEN BAG ALMANAC AND READER the report, “Top Law School Homepages” has been adopted by Florida Coastal School of Law to benchmark website effectiveness, identify best practices, and determine areas needing improvement on an ongoing basis.

    Alan Smodic, Florida Coastal School of Law
    Nathan DeGruchy, Florida Coastal School of Law
  • Using open source tools for data warehousing and reporting

    Increasingly, IT shops are being asked to contribute value back to their law schools by providing data analysis and "business intelligence" tools and services. Historically, this has been done in Excel. We're trying to move beyond that at Emory, and so we've been exploring the use of open source tools to respond to these requests. There is a new generation of reasonably easy-to-use cross-platform tools, mostly written in Java, that can help with some of these needs.

    Ben Chapman, Emory University School of Law
  • Video Formats, Encoders, Repositories: the Current State and the Trends

    Libraries and law schools have been using video recordings as part of their multimedia technology for years. From class lectures to school events, there is an increasing demand for continuing to do so since patrons and students love to view video content on-line. This session will review the current state of video formats, encoding technologies, and multimedia repositories in law library environments. Free and commercial utilities for video converting and hosting will be demonstrated, and development on video formats and encoders will be discussed.

    Wei Fang, Rutgers School of Law-Newark
  • Virtual Library: Breaking the Desk Chain.

    At Lincoln Memorial University's Duncan School of Law, there is no reference desk; there is no circulation desk. Librarians offices are not in a "library" but are integrated with the faculty throughout the building. We are a library without walls. While this presents certain challenges, it provides many more opportunities. The Information Services Librarian and the Faculty Services Librarian at Duncan Law will discuss reference and circulation in the digital age, including the use of instant messaging, self check-out units, I-Pads and offices integrated throughout the law school building.

    David Walker, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
    Katherine Marsh, Lincoln Memorial University School of Law