Accepted sessions

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$50!!! what do you need $20 for? Using what you have when budgets are tight.

In a time when pundits and CIOs alike are promising that the budget situation isn't going to improve anytime soon there's never been more need for resourcefulness and efficiency. At...

Librarian
Technologist
Phillip Bohl, Pepperdine University School of Law
Gilbert Marquez, Pepperdine University School of Law
20 FREE & ONLINE Technology Tools to Support Teaching & Learning

Budgets and IT staff are stretched thin.  How can you get the technology you need to support the kind of teaching and learning you envision in your classroom?  This session will provide...

Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
A critical look at outsourcing services to central IT and the cloud

In this presentation three law school IT  directors take a critical look at  moving services  and systems to central IT and/or the Cloud. Using a survey of CALI members, their own...

Intermediate Technologist
Wayne Miller, Duke University School of Law
Susan Monsen, Yale Law School
Patricia Donnelly, University of California - Berkeley School of Law
An Update on eLangdell -- What it Can Do for Your Law School

eLangdell books are free. Find out which titles might work for your students and school. This session will explain the progress that CALI has made with eLangdell Press, including a look at some of...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Deb Quentel, CALI
Austin Groothuis, CALI
Elmer Masters, CALI
Assemble the Big Stuff and Occupy the Process: "Using Technology to Improve the Law and Using the Law to Improve Technology” – A Homage to the BLIP* Clinic Hackathon

Occupy Wall Street and the expanding global impact of social networking technologies have reminded us that we all have a right to participate actively in the process of making laws and in...

Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Harold O'Grady, Brooklyn Law School
Lloyd Carew-Reid, Brooklyn Law School
Big Data or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Corpus

From government regulations to donor lists to a directory of every single lawyer in the country, very large corpuses of data and the ability to create, manage and access them have become a...

Advanced
Librarian
Technologist
Daniel Nagy, REVIEW
Bridging the Gap: Technology Integration from a K-12 Perspective

Consider these questions:

  • What technologies are incoming law students exposed to during their K-12 experience? How were those...
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Vanessa Bravo, Pepperdine University School of Law
Building & Maintaining SCOCAL

SCOCAL (http://scocal.stanford.edu) is a joint project between the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford,...

Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Erika Wayne, Stanford Law School
Timothy Stanley, Justia
Dan Vu Quoc, Justia
Building a Record with E-Portfolios

Electronic portfolios, or E-portfolios, represent a new and different way for law students to capture and share the body of work they create during their law school careers.  Students and...

Intermediate
Faculty
Technologist
Kenneth Hirsh, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Michael Samson, Wayne State University Law School Library
Building Online Courses and Course content - A technologist's approach

There are many challenges when taking a traditional course and moving it to a fully or partially online format.

This session will address the challenges faced and best practices gleaned...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Lindsay Matts, William Mitchell College of Law
Collecting State Court Files: How Law Schools and Libraries Can Preserve History (and Use Technology to Do It)

In 1875, a jury committed Mary Todd Lincoln to an insane asylum. Recently, two Illinois State Supreme Court justices discovered her trial papers still on file with the Cook County Clerk. A...

Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Rachael Samberg, Stanford Law School
Convert Your Course Website (Online) Into A Chrome App (Offline), Or Why an App Might be Better Than an eBook

This session, which is aimed at technically willing faculty and their IT staff, will demonstrate how to convert a course website into an app for Chrome. Depending on the richness of the website,...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Patrick Wiseman, Georgia State University College of Law
Cost-Effective Creation of In-House Instructional Videos

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,...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Kathleen McLeod, Elon University School of Law
Patricia Perkins, Elon University School of Law
Ben McFadyen, Elon University School of Law
Cultivating Creativity: How to innovate, create, and get out of your own way while doing it

Are you waiting for inspiration? Do you look at others’ projects and think, “How did they come up with that idea?” This talk will give you practical insights on the supposedly...

Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Jill Smith, Georgetown University Law Center
Vicenc Feliu, Villanova University School of Law
Disrupting Legal Education: The Impact on Legal Education of Innovations Driven by Evolving Video Conferencing Technologies

Access to high quality, desktop video conferencing technology is rapidly becoming less costly and more pervasive. Over time this technology will very likely become a "disruptive" force...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Larry Farmer, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
DIY eBooks! A Workshop

This day long workshop is being held as part of the 2012 CALI Conference for Law School Computing. Workshop attendees will spend the day turning existing files into an ebook that will be usable on...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Elmer Masters, CALI
Austin Groothuis, CALI
Tom Boone, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Rich McCue, University of Victoria Faculty of Law
DMR: Digital Media … Revolution

When Duke Law implemented the Apple TV and MediaPOINTE DMR HD devices, it unofficially entered the Digital Media Revolution.

The days of worrying about tape and disc supply are over; the...

Technologist
Hiroki Nishiyama, Duke University School of Law
Wayne Miller, Duke University School of Law
Courtney Davis, Duke University School of Law
Dumbing Down the "Smart" Classroom

 

Have you ever wondered if the term "Smart" Classroom came from the three PhD’s needed to understand how to operate the controls?  Do you teach in a room that...

Faculty
Technologist
Tim DiVito, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Camden
Gary Moore, University of South Carolina School of Law
ExamSoft: New Features, New Trends, and Announcements [Invitation Only]

[Invitation Only] New Features, New Trends, and Announcements. Come hear the latest from ExamSoft.

Beginner
Librarian
Technologist
David Schnabel, ExamSoft Worldwide
Bryant Weaver, ExamSoft Worldwide
From DIY to Semi-Homemade: Should You Integrate Third Party Applications Into Your Services?

 

We all want to create our own programs and applications, but we don’t always have the time or technical experience required to do so.  Three student services librarians...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Austin Williams, Georgia State University College of Law
Deborah Schander, Georgia State University College of Law
Jordan Gilbertson, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
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