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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
How to teach a blended course

I created a blended evidence class, which I am currently teaching for the first time. It consists of 1/3 of the sessions on-line and 2/3 in class. In this presentation I will describe how I...

Intermediate
Faculty
Technologist
Norman Garland, Southwestern Law School
LexisNexis Law School Publishing "E"nitiatives

This is a sponsored session - called LexisNexis Law School Publishing "E"nitiatives. We plan to introduce our new ebook programs, mobile apps and other...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Kathleen Diehlmann, LexisNexis
Institutional Repositories for Law Schools – Past, Present, and Future

Since 2010, the number of institutional repositories (IRs) managed by law schools has more than tripled. In addition, over 60 law reviews now make their archives freely available through an IR....

Intermediate Faculty Kathleen Cowan, Bepress
Thinking Outside The Cylinder - Utilizing Unusual Tools to Teach

Creativity breeds contempt.  No, that's not right.  Creativity breeds more creativity.  There is a world of unusual tools to help teach....

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Syd Beckman, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
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
The Legal iPad Revolution: where are we now and where are we going?

 

It's hard to believe that iPads were introduced just two years ago. In the time since, Apple has sold millions of them.  Even in the legal profession - which can be...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Debbie Ginsberg, Chicago-Kent College of Law
IPv6 - A Practical Introduction for the Rest of Us

For years we've heard predictions that the Internet is running out of addresses, and in fact IANA gave out its last block of IPv4 addresses in February of 2011. Born over a...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Michael Sparks, Louisiana State University Law Center
Technology that Counts: Tools that Improve the Quality of Legal Research Instruction

 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...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Jane Larrington, University of San Diego School of Law
Anna Russell, University of San Diego School of Law
Maintaining Professor Scholarship on the TJSL Website

At TJSL, maintaining scholarship for professor profile pages was a process that took a lot of man power and time. Furthermore, the initial setup of scholarship couldn’t handle the growth....

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Patricia Ramert, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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
How to Give Good UI?!

User Interface describes everything from the web page you are reading this on to the monitor or mobile device used to access the browser, and the keyboard, mouse, or pointing device used to...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Wayne Weibel, Cornell Law School
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
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
How to Pimp your TWEN: Engaging Students on Their Turf - Online

I do not nor have I ever worked for West. This presentation is a result of my use (and probable abuse/hacking) of my course TWEN page.  Students are required to sign up...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Jennifer Cooper, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
XtraNormal . . . Good for More than Just Laughs

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 ...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Megan Welch, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
Larry Farmer, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
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
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
Learning Centers in the Library: What can we do with them?

 

This program is about leveraging the technology of the learning centers in Thomas Jefferson School of Law Library to foster a collaborative approach to learning legal research....

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Catherine Deane, Thomas Jefferson School 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
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