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H2O: Supporting Digital Casebooks in the Law School Classroom

Speaker(s): 
Brett Johnson, Tom Boone

As the user base for H2O – the Harvard Law School Library and Berkman Center for Information and Society’s digital casebook suite - grows within Harvard Law School and beyond, library and instructional technology staff must adapt to new challenges in providing support to professors and students.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
19 June 13:00 - 14:00
Room: 
WCC 2009

Thinking Outside the Book: Legal Research Instruction

Speaker(s): 
Terrye Conroy, Alyson Drake, Tina Brooks, Beau Steenken

Legal research and other skills instructors who adopt online textbooks can not only write their own text, they can also incorporate various mediums such as images, videos, and quizzes.  In addition to being a more interactive type of learning, when students read about legal research strategies and resources and watch demos of databases before class, it frees up valuable class time to practice their research skills.  In this session, we will discuss why an online textbook that you create can better serve the needs of your students; describe our implementation process and the variou

Slides: 
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document iconBEYOND THE BOUND BOOKhandout.docx

Schedule info

Time slot: 
20 June 16:00 - 17:00
Room: 
WCC 2019
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