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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
If You Build It, They Will Learn: Using Self-Paced Modules to Integrate Academic and Professional Skills Across the Curriculum

Law professors face a great challenge when building substantive courses: There is a demanding crunch for time to cover valuable substantive material that tends to outweigh a very real need to give...

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Joshua Pluta, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School 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
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Norman Garland, Southwestern Law School
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
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Jennifer Cooper, Thomas Jefferson School 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
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Wayne Weibel, Cornell Law School
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
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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
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...

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Tim DiVito, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Camden
Gary Moore, University of South Carolina School of Law
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
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Elmer Masters, CALI
Austin Groothuis, CALI
Tom Boone, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Rich McCue, University of Victoria Faculty 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
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Larry Farmer, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
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...

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Jill Smith, Georgetown University Law Center
Vicenc Feliu, Villanova University 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
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Kathleen McLeod, Elon University School of Law
Patricia Perkins, Elon University School of Law
Ben McFadyen, Elon University 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
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Patrick Wiseman, Georgia State University 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...

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Rachael Samberg, Stanford 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
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Lindsay Matts, William Mitchell College 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
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Kenneth Hirsh, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Michael Samson, Wayne State University Law School Library
Building & Maintaining SCOCAL

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

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Erika Wayne, Stanford Law School
Timothy Stanley, Justia
Dan Vu Quoc, Justia
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...
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Vanessa Bravo, Pepperdine University School of Law
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...

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Harold O'Grady, Brooklyn Law School
Lloyd Carew-Reid, Brooklyn 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
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Deb Quentel, CALI
Austin Groothuis, CALI
Elmer Masters, CALI
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...

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