Storyboarding a CALI Lesson: Tips and Techniques / Aviation Law Lessons Take Flight

Storyboarding a CALI Lesson: Tips and Techniques

CALI lessons sometimes incorporate story-telling into the lesson. This makes the lesson interesting and, at the same time, serves as an effective mnemonic device. In drafting our CALI Lesson, Bluebooking for Legal Publication, A Systematic Approach to Learning The Bluebook White Pages, we realized that creating a story for teaching Bluebook rules and techniques would make the learning process much more interesting, maybe even fun. After some false starts, we decided to use storyboarding techniques to help create the story. We discovered that this technique engages our creativity and helps us clarify the learning process with clear steps as we set develop the story. Even better, we seem to be having fun and working much faster ourselves. We think it is saving us a lot of time. Neither one of us has much artistic talent. We use stick figures and rough sketches. We are following story telling principles including creating characters the audience can relate to, setting the stage, and establishing a conflict and resolving it. In this session, we will demonstrate what techniques work best for us in creating and storyboarding the story, incorporating the rules we wanted to teach, testing the lesson, and how we work together as a team. Helen Frazer, Associate Director, Mason Law Library, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law; Brittany Kolonay, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Mason Law Library, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law.

Aviation Law Lessons Take Flight

“It's only the beginning but the implications are terrific” — Gerald Sayer, first flight in the Gloster-Whittle E28 jet, 1941.

The aviation education community needs CALI now. Aviation law covers a broad spectrum of topics. This body of knowledge is untapped. CALI and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University can help fill this void.

Despite the availability of Aviation Law courses at various law schools, until recently, there were no CALI lessons in this subject area. CALI and the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) Ph.D. program have been working together during the past year to develop material for this new category of lessons. Contributing to the body of knowledge is one of the core concepts of a Ph.D. program. To that end, ERAU Ph.D. students and professors continue to expand CALI’s database of Aviation Law lessons, in fulfillment of one of the course requirements for the course, DAV 714, “The Legal Environment of Aviation”.  These lessons will serve as a valuable resource for law students, as well as for future ERAU undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. students.