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 Recent discussions about legal education highlight the importance of skills-acquisition in law school. Legal research is among the most important skills for law students to acquire. As legal research instructors, we know how difficult it can be to foster development of those skills.

Traditional methods of teaching legal research have focused on in-class lectures and demonstrations followed by out of class assignments. In this presentation, we explain how to turn the traditional teaching model on its head with the help of technology.

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CALIcon12_presentation.pdf

The millennium generation has arrived at law school.  With their arrival comes the need to create new instructional materials to correspond with their unique learning styles.  However, their arrival coincides with a period of stagnant or even shrinking law school budgets.  This created a dilemma:  “How can we meet the needs of a new generation of learners with limited resources?”

You know those hilarious cartoon video clips you're seeing all over YouTube? Believe it or not, they are good for more than just laughs. In fact, XtraNormal videos provide a uniquely effective way of approaching skills instruction and are fast and simple to make. We'll cover both how to use the software and ideas for using it effectively in the law school classroom. 

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XtraNormal Basics Handout Final.pdf

XtraNormal Basics Handout Final.docx