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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...

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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
It's Time to Change the CALI Conference - Discussion of the Future of CALICon
John Mayer
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Look, it's blue! - What's new on www.cali.org
Elmer Masters

Join Elmer as he gives you a run down on what's new on the CALI website and what's in the pipeline for the next 12 months.

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Navigating the ABA Standards: How ExamSoft can Make it Simple
Beverly Mindle, Natasha Davis

With the changing guidelines in law school accreditation, deans and faculty have to put more thought into tracking learning outcomes, assessing simulations, and improving curriculum. The goal of...

Beginner
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...

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I Was Told There Would Be No Math: Basic Data Analysis for Lawyers, Librarians, and other chronic Math-avoiders
Joshua Pluta

It’s OK to admit it. When you went to law school, it was because you didn’t want to do any math. But then you got to work in legal education in the age of assessment and big data, and...

Beginner Librarian
Partnering to Create Effective Online Legal Instruction
Jeani Young, Tom Janke, Max Huffman

When developing online legal education programs that meet new American Bar Association (ABA) standards, it becomes necessary to challenge the traditional model of legal instruction. The McKinney...

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Resourcefulness in the era of budget instability: how to maximize classroom outcomes when your technology is 35 years old, your budget thrice divided, and both live in a van down by the river
Tony Anderson, Jayson Capps, Chad Covey, Ian Van Deusen

Big or small, we are all in the same boat in trying to stretch our limited budgetary dollars as much as possible in order to provide the best service we can to our Law School communities. When you...

Beginner Technologist
Is Pizza Enough? Preparing our Students for the New Normal of Technological Competence
Jason Tubinis, Maureen Cahill

Everyone is writing about how increasingly necessary it is for lawyers to have defined technology skills, and that even digital natives have few of the skills required for practice. Most of these...

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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
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....

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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.
 

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Introducing Wordpress
Emily Barney

In this session I'll cover the basics of getting started with WordPress from site setup options, to core features, add-on options, and where to find training and support. I'll mention...

Beginner Technologist
Implementing Successful EdTech Projects: Don’t Forget the Pedagogy!
Rich McCue

Are new educational technologies more effective in helping students achieve learning objectives than the old technology they replace? How IT professionals implement educational technologies, and...

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How to Ruin a Presentation with PowerPoint
Steve Bradford

Legal educators were slow to adopt PowerPoint as a teaching tool, but many law professors and law librarians are now using PowerPoint or other presentation software for teaching and presentations...

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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
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
Taking up Slack: Renergizing Group Communications in the 21st Century
Elmer Masters

Slack (https://slack.com/) is an easy to use communication tool. It brings all of your group communication needs into a single,...

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Pedagogy & Practicality: Teaching legal tech to law students at the Legal Information Institute
Craig Newton

The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School is best known for decades of technical innovation in publishing legal reference materials online for free. Law students have always performed...

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