Proposed Sessions
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If your Presentations using PowerPoint have Become Lackluster, Add Some Pizzazz with these Eye-Catching Alternative Presentation Applications! Carla Boles Educators who may be disenchanted with PowerPoint should rejoice as there are numerous, exciting alternative presentation applications to explore! This session will give educators opportunities... |
Beginner | |
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21st Century Courtroom Technology, Successes and Challenges Dan Thomas Courtroom technology has rapidly evolved over the past several years. While this innovation has presented many exciting opportunities to utilize technology in the courtroom to do things that... |
Beginner | |
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The Times They Are A-Changin Corinne St. Claire "And the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a-changin'" - Bob Dylan knew what was up when he strummed those words. Change happens, and we have many... |
Beginner | |
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Pretty Big Data: Data visualization mechanisms for scholarship and marketing Ellen Richardson, Sarah Ryan, Jordan Jefferson Arrest rates across the U.S. The impact of declining endowment funds on discretionary spending. The proportion of students taking legal research courses. What do these topics have in common? They... |
Beginner | |
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Hold the library in your hand: the Mendik Mobile smartphone app Grace Lee This workshop will trace the development, implementation and usage of the Mendik Mobile smartphone app. |
Intermediate | |
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A Peek into LibGuides V2: Migrating to the New Platform - an Unsession Karina Condra In December 2013, SpringShare launched the roll-out of the new version of LibGuides. Beta test sites are currently being created for clients who request them. Springshare announced this week that... |
Intermediate | |
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Identifying the Problem: Using Exam Software to Help Struggling Students Succeed Ashley Closterman The idea of using an embedded-assessment platform to provide proof of student learning and help faculty with student remediation and curriculum revision is not a new one—so why are many law... |
Beginner | |
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Pretty Big Data: Data visualization mechanisms for scholarship and marketing Ellen Richardson, Sarah Ryan, Jordan Jefferson Arrest rates across the U.S. The impact of declining endowment funds on discretionary spending. The proportion of students taking legal research courses. What do these topics have in common? They... |
Beginner | |
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How Big Is Your Digital Footprint? How To Manage Online Presence Marcia Dority Baker Have you ever Googled your name? Take a close look at the results - your online presence is working 24/7. You’re “on” even if you aren’t online. This presentation will... |
Beginner | |
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The Accidental Institutional Repository Manager: A Review of Hofstra Law Library's Scholarly Commons Project DawnMarin Dell Hofstra Law Library has hosted a bepress Scholarly Commons since the fall of 2012. The institutional repository was created from in-house materials and Hein's archives of existing... |
Beginner | |
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Classcaster Beyond Podcasting Elmer Masters Every semester dozens of law school faculty and librarians use Classcaster for podacasting and blogging. This session will go over the latest updates to Classcaster as provided by new Wordpress 3.... |
Intermediate | Faculty |
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Extreme Makeover: Website Edition Austin Williams, Terrance Manion Websites, like houses or people, get makeovers from time to time. |
Beginner | |
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ABA Techshow & Tell II Deborah Ginsberg, Emily Barney, Wayne Miller ABA held their annual Techshow in Chicago from March 27 to 29. While most of the attendees were practicing lawyers, it's a great educational experience for law school libarians, faculty, and... |
Beginner | |
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Game of Budgetary Thrones - Does Responsibility Center Management lead to "the academic equivalent of a Hobbesian war of all against all"? Tony Anderson, Chad Covey Though Responsibility Center Management (RCM) has been in existence since its inception at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, its adoption has occurred in waves, typically as state... |
Intermediate | |
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Using Powershell to bring Federal Depository Libraries into this decade Micah Johnson The librarians in many Federal Depository Libraries have been using DOCS2000 for the past 15 years. With the end of support for Windows XP, there’s a good chance of DOCS2000 no longer... |
Beginner | |
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Lots of Web for Little Cash: Shared Hosting at the academic Law Library Wilhelmina Randtke Intranet, repository, HTML 5 video, and electronic signange, all for $10 a month. Say what?! |
Advanced | |
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Law in the Wild: Citation extraction service and Glassware Wayne Weibel I recently developed software to extract legal citations from text based documents and images, setting up the software as a web accessible service. It began with a single in-house use, but... |
Intermediate | |
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The End of the Textbook (Digital or Otherwise): Using Content-Embedded Concept Maps to Teach Law Mark Edwards Many publishers are attempting to make available digitized versions of their existing textbooks and casebooks. ChartaCourse has flipped the concept of the textbook and casebook entirely,... |
Beginner | |
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Distance Education on the Bleeding Edge Syd Beckman, Gordon Russell This presentation will look at bleeding edge ideas for the delivery of synchronis an asynchronis distance education using virtual technology in new and meaningful ways. The presentation... |
Intermediate | Faculty |
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Website Optimization for Fun and Non-Profit Bryan Rapp Did you know that the speed of your website can have a direct impact on your visitor's perception of your brand? If your site is slow, then you may be more generally viewed as sluggish.... |
Intermediate | |
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The End of the Textbook (Digital or Otherwise): Using Content-Embedded Concept Maps to Teach Law Mark Edwards Many publishers are attempting to make available digitized versions of their existing textbooks and casebooks. ChartaCourse has flipped the concept of the textbook and casebook entirely,... |
Beginner | |
|
The Times They Are A-Changin Corinne St. Claire "And the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a-changin'" - Bob Dylan knew what was up when he strummed those words. Change happens, and we have many... |
Beginner | |
|
Using Powershell to bring Federal Depository Libraries into this decade Micah Johnson The librarians in many Federal Depository Libraries have been using DOCS2000 for the past 15 years. With the end of support for Windows XP, there’s a good chance of DOCS2000 no longer... |
Beginner | |
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Getting the most out of your Youtube videos Michael Robak, Ayyoub Ajmi With over 100 hours of video uploaded every minute Youtube is by far the leading online video sharing platform. Beside kittens and cute babies Youtube also hosts many educational and school... |
Beginner | |
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Getting from Research to Feature: CFR Definitions Mohammad AL Asswad, Brian Hughes, Manolo Bevia "I read this great article on entity extraction for legal text - can you add that feature to our repository web site?" The proliferation of legal informatics research over the past few... |
Intermediate | |
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I’ve got a tool for you! - the Unsession Deborah Ginsberg I have an tool for you - and you have one for me! Let’s share our favorite tools for productivity and more. In this “unsession”, the audience will be the presenters... |
Beginner | |
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Apples for Teachers . . . and Students . . . and Staff -- FOUR YEARS LATER Mitchel Winick In 2010 Monterey College of Law became the first US law school to provide Apple iPads to 100% of our faculty, students, and staff. As we initiated the program, I presented the goals for MCL's... |
Beginner | |
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How Big Is Your Digital Footprint? How To Manage Online Presence Marcia Dority Baker Have you ever Googled your name? Take a close look at the results - your online presence is working 24/7. You’re “on” even if you aren’t online. This presentation will... |
Beginner | |
|
ABA Techshow & Tell II Deborah Ginsberg, Emily Barney, Wayne Miller ABA held their annual Techshow in Chicago from March 27 to 29. While most of the attendees were practicing lawyers, it's a great educational experience for law school libarians, faculty, and... |
Beginner | |
|
Getting from Research to Feature: CFR Definitions Mohammad AL Asswad, Brian Hughes, Manolo Bevia "I read this great article on entity extraction for legal text - can you add that feature to our repository web site?" The proliferation of legal informatics research over the past few... |
Intermediate | |
|
Identifying the Problem: Using Exam Software to Help Struggling Students Succeed Ashley Closterman The idea of using an embedded-assessment platform to provide proof of student learning and help faculty with student remediation and curriculum revision is not a new one—so why are many law... |
Beginner | |
|
Teaching the Technology of Choice Marc Lauritsen Choice making is a pervasive aspect of most forms of legal work. It’s central to case strategy, client counseling, advocacy, negotiation, document drafting, and adjudication. Yet law school... |
Intermediate | |
|
Apples for Teachers . . . and Students . . . and Staff -- FOUR YEARS LATER Mitchel Winick In 2010 Monterey College of Law became the first US law school to provide Apple iPads to 100% of our faculty, students, and staff. As we initiated the program, I presented the goals for MCL's... |
Beginner | |
|
Preparing for Change: What impact will the new ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure have on learning outcomes, distance education, experiential learning, faculty/student ratios, faculty status and student employment? Gordon Russell The ABA Standards Review Committee has sent to the Council on Legal Education the revised standards and these have been sent out for Notice and Comment. It is very likely that the the... |
Intermediate | |
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Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites Lorelle Anderson Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites |
Intermediate | |
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Lots of Web for Little Cash: Shared Hosting at the academic Law Library Wilhelmina Randtke Intranet, repository, HTML 5 video, and electronic signange, all for $10 a month. Say what?! |
Advanced | |
|
Distance Education on the Bleeding Edge Syd Beckman, Gordon Russell This presentation will look at bleeding edge ideas for the delivery of synchronis an asynchronis distance education using virtual technology in new and meaningful ways. The presentation... |
Intermediate | Faculty |
|
Exam Administration Made Easy! (Or maybe less horrible, anyway). Nathan D.M. Robertson Final exams are terrifying for law students on purpose. But does the final exam season also have to be harrowing for law school administration? No one wants a stressed out registrar!... |
Beginner | |
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Getting the most out of your Youtube videos Michael Robak, Ayyoub Ajmi With over 100 hours of video uploaded every minute Youtube is by far the leading online video sharing platform. Beside kittens and cute babies Youtube also hosts many educational and school... |
Beginner | |
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Placehold Sponsor Session - Sponsor #4 Sarah Glassmeyer |
Beginner | Faculty |
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Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites Lorelle Anderson Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites |
Intermediate | |
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Extreme Makeover: Website Edition Austin Williams, Terrance Manion Websites, like houses or people, get makeovers from time to time. |
Beginner | |
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Placehold Sponsor Session - Sponsor #4 Sarah Glassmeyer |
Beginner | Faculty |
|
Exam Administration Made Easy! (Or maybe less horrible, anyway). Nathan D.M. Robertson Final exams are terrifying for law students on purpose. But does the final exam season also have to be harrowing for law school administration? No one wants a stressed out registrar!... |
Beginner | |
|
Website Optimization for Fun and Non-Profit Bryan Rapp Did you know that the speed of your website can have a direct impact on your visitor's perception of your brand? If your site is slow, then you may be more generally viewed as sluggish.... |
Intermediate | |
|
Googlized Screen-seeing Carissa Vogel, Dan Blackaby One default screen-seeing technique--focusing on the middle of a screen--came about from the ubiquity of Google. In the first part of this program we will explore the implications and... |
Beginner | |
|
Preparing for Change: What impact will the new ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure have on learning outcomes, distance education, experiential learning, faculty/student ratios, faculty status and student employment? Gordon Russell The ABA Standards Review Committee has sent to the Council on Legal Education the revised standards and these have been sent out for Notice and Comment. It is very likely that the the... |
Intermediate | |
|
Googlized Screen-seeing Carissa Vogel, Dan Blackaby One default screen-seeing technique--focusing on the middle of a screen--came about from the ubiquity of Google. In the first part of this program we will explore the implications and... |
Beginner | |
|
I’ve got a tool for you! - the Unsession Deborah Ginsberg I have an tool for you - and you have one for me! Let’s share our favorite tools for productivity and more. In this “unsession”, the audience will be the presenters... |
Beginner | |
|
Teaching the Technology of Choice Marc Lauritsen Choice making is a pervasive aspect of most forms of legal work. It’s central to case strategy, client counseling, advocacy, negotiation, document drafting, and adjudication. Yet law school... |
Intermediate | |
|
Finding, Clipping and Using Video Clips in the Classroom Syd Beckman Video clips can be a useful tool for teaching various topics in the law school classroom. This may seem "old school" yet few professors utilize this interesting and engaging medium... |
Beginner | |
|
The Accidental Institutional Repository Manager: A Review of Hofstra Law Library's Scholarly Commons Project DawnMarin Dell Hofstra Law Library has hosted a bepress Scholarly Commons since the fall of 2012. The institutional repository was created from in-house materials and Hein's archives of existing... |
Beginner | |
|
Taming the Aleph beast with Group Policy Micah Johnson This sessions will look at how to use the various features of Group Policy to keep Aleph up to date and behaving properly for your install base. We will start with a generic install and the... |
Intermediate | |
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Taming the Aleph beast with Group Policy Micah Johnson This sessions will look at how to use the various features of Group Policy to keep Aleph up to date and behaving properly for your install base. We will start with a generic install and the... |
Intermediate | |
|
Law in the Wild: Citation extraction service and Glassware Wayne Weibel I recently developed software to extract legal citations from text based documents and images, setting up the software as a web accessible service. It began with a single in-house use, but... |
Intermediate | |
|
Finding, Clipping and Using Video Clips in the Classroom Syd Beckman Video clips can be a useful tool for teaching various topics in the law school classroom. This may seem "old school" yet few professors utilize this interesting and engaging medium... |
Beginner | |
|
21st Century Courtroom Technology, Successes and Challenges Dan Thomas Courtroom technology has rapidly evolved over the past several years. While this innovation has presented many exciting opportunities to utilize technology in the courtroom to do things that... |
Beginner | |
|
Hold the library in your hand: the Mendik Mobile smartphone app Grace Lee This workshop will trace the development, implementation and usage of the Mendik Mobile smartphone app. |
Intermediate | |
|
Boon and Bane of Inventive Concepts and Refined Claim Construction in the Supreme Court's Patent Precedents Sigram Schindler The Supreme Court has taken US patent precedents to a higher level of development for adjusting it to the needs of inventions in emerging technologies, such as life science /... |
Advanced | |
|
Classcaster Beyond Podcasting Elmer Masters Every semester dozens of law school faculty and librarians use Classcaster for podacasting and blogging. This session will go over the latest updates to Classcaster as provided by new Wordpress 3.... |
Intermediate | Faculty |
|
A Peek into LibGuides V2: Migrating to the New Platform - an Unsession Karina Condra In December 2013, SpringShare launched the roll-out of the new version of LibGuides. Beta test sites are currently being created for clients who request them. Springshare announced this week that... |
Intermediate | |
|
Boon and Bane of Inventive Concepts and Refined Claim Construction in the Supreme Court's Patent Precedents Sigram Schindler The Supreme Court has taken US patent precedents to a higher level of development for adjusting it to the needs of inventions in emerging technologies, such as life science /... |
Advanced | |
|
If your Presentations using PowerPoint have Become Lackluster, Add Some Pizzazz with these Eye-Catching Alternative Presentation Applications! Carla Boles Educators who may be disenchanted with PowerPoint should rejoice as there are numerous, exciting alternative presentation applications to explore! This session will give educators opportunities... |
Beginner | |
|
Game of Budgetary Thrones - Does Responsibility Center Management lead to "the academic equivalent of a Hobbesian war of all against all"? Tony Anderson, Chad Covey Though Responsibility Center Management (RCM) has been in existence since its inception at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, its adoption has occurred in waves, typically as state... |
Intermediate | |
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Experiences in Teaching Legal Practice Technology to Law Students Richard Granat During the past year several law schools have introduced new courses in teaching legal technology and law practice management to law students. |
Beginner | |
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Experiences in Teaching Legal Practice Technology to Law Students Richard Granat During the past year several law schools have introduced new courses in teaching legal technology and law practice management to law students. |
Beginner |
