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Session Experience level Track
14 Ways You Didn’t Know You Could Use Oyez
Allie Bernstein, Matthew Gruhn

If you use Oyez, you must know it inside and out. You know all there is to know about Oyez, right? Wrong.
 

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
A2J Author Course Project: Equipping Students with Core Competencies and Lowering Barriers to Justice
Alex Rabanal, Jessica Frank, Carrie Hagan

The A2J Author Course Project ("Project") is a groundbreaking initiative that supports and promotes the teaching of A2J Author in law schools across the country to help lower barriers to...

Beginner Faculty
Active Learning in the Law School Classroom: Tips and Technology to Help Create and Sustain It
Karen Lundquist

From our own life experiences, we know that hands-on learning is best. We can listen to someone explain to us how to hit a backhand, or use a function in Word or on our computer, or bake a cake,...

Beginner Faculty
Adjusting To the New Legal Research Paradigm: Best Practices For Search Engine Optimization For Legal Scholarship
Todd Venie, Avery Le, Taryn Marks

Nobody scrolls past the break. Nobody clicks to the second page of search results. With almost everyone conducting legal research online, a potentially groundbreaking article can remain unread if...

Intermediate Librarian
Bad Traffic, Malicious Actors, and Existential Angst.
Daniel Nagy

Session will cover a rework of the CALI infrastructure after upgrading to Drupal 7. Discussed topics will be what bad traffic looks like, how it manifests on individual services (such as a...

Intermediate Technologist
Bloomberg Law: Enhancing Students’ Practice Skills and Marketability with Legal Technology
Sarah Glassmeyer

Learn how Bloomberg Law is revolutionizing the way lawyers do business and the way law students become practice ready. We will also highlight how students can leverage the power of Bloomberg Law...

Beginner
CALI's SuperFuture - Creating Agency as a Business Model
John Mayer

There is a lot going on in legal education these days and CALI is struggling, just like law schools, to remain relevant, viable and future-thinking.  Did you ever wonder why so many CALI...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
Camtasia Boot Camp
Jill Smith

Are you thinking of creating a screen-cast video? Have you tried screencasting and found it baffling? Have you successfully created a screen cast and want to improve the quality of your finished...

Intermediate
Clinic-Library Collaborations to Increase Adoption of Instructional and Law Practice Technologies in Clinics
Alex Berrio Matamoros

Many law librarians have studied instructional design and teaching techniques in library school, taught hands-on experiential research courses using various technology tools, or taken online...

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Competencies and Rubrics and Communities, Oh My!
Janelle Beitz, David Herding, Chad Johnson

In January 2015, William Mitchell College of Law welcomed a cohort of 80+ students to the first online/face-to-face hybrid, ABA-accredited J.D. program for an intensive “Preparation Week,...

Intermediate Faculty
Creating an Optimal Online Learning Environment from Scratch in the New Frontier
Jason Fiske, William Byrnes

Associate Dean William Byrnes, a pioneer in online legal education, will be co-presenting with Director Jason Fiske.  Dean Byrnes will be discussing the optimal pedagogy for online legal...

Intermediate Faculty
Curiosity, Creative Play, and Proactive Innovation
Chris Bombardo, Jamie Wilson

Technology is advancing and mutating so rapidly that it’s often a challenge for tech professionals to keep up, much less the non-technical people we support. This presents a huge opportunity...

Beginner Technologist
Data-Driven Transformation - Using Technology to Promote a Culture of Assessment in Legal Education
Michael Vogt, Phillip Bohl

Abstract: Legal education is undergoing a transformation. Assessing institutional effectiveness is a growing concern for the ABA and was the subject of several new accreditation standards that...

Beginner
Faculty
Technologist
Distance Learning Best Practice Recommendations for Legal Education: The Road Travelled & The Journey Yet Ahead
William Byrnes, Jason Fiske

The Work Group of Distance Learning for Legal Education (Work Group) is pleased to have the opportunity to share with the academy its Best Practice...

Intermediate Faculty
Distruptalicious Legal Instruction: A year of learning outcomes and multiple assessments
Jenny Wondracek, Eric Porterfield, Beth Donahue

The new ABA standards require law schools to incorporate learning outcomes into all of their credit bearing courses (Standard 302) and to utilize both formative and summative assessments to...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Easier Linking of Legal Documents: The Work of the OASIS Legal Citation Technical Committee
John Heywood

The OASIS Legal Citation Markup Technical Committee has been hard at work creating a markup standard for all legal citations worldwide. This is an effort to work with all kinds of citations styles...

Intermediate
Faculty
Librarian
Enough to be Dangerous: 00000110 Things Every Beginner Needs to Know about Coding
Jason Tubinis, Leslie Grove

You can code; you just may not know it yet.  This presentation will cover the fundamentals of coding by looking at some of the most popular and important programming languages used today. By...

Intermediate
Librarian
Technologist
Explanatory Parentheticals (Consistently Ubiquitous, Easily Harvested, and Grossly Underutilized)
Pablo Arredondo

Lawyers and judges alike rely on explanatory parentheticals to concisely convey the substance of a decision.  Indeed, the common law is infested with these case-summarizing parentheticals....

Intermediate
Librarian
Technologist
Future Blogger Meetup
Sarah Glassmeyer, Elmer Masters

Has the golden age of legal ed and librarian blogging passed us by?  NO, WE SAY.  NO.
Blogging can be pithy bon mots or a mini-scholarship collection and everything in between....

Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
How To Do Everything With LibGuides
Sharon Bradley, Robert O'Leary

LibGuides are particularly associated with library research guides but they can be so much more. Many member institutions have LibGuides accounts but may not appreciate the vast potential of the...

Intermediate Librarian
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