Accepted sessions
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Yes, You Can! - Offering a Law Practice Tech Course at Your Law School Doug Edmunds Three years after getting the course proposal approved by our academic affairs committee, we were finally able to teach LAW431 - Law Practice Technologies, an upper-level 2-credit course, this... |
Beginner |
Faculty Technologist |
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Video Conferencing for Legal Education Wei Fang, Tom Ryan The Rutgers University School of Law Camden and Rutgers University School of Law Newark are going to merge this year. The two schools are in two different physical locations, yet students from... |
Intermediate |
Faculty Librarian Technologist |
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Unlearning - The Hardest Part of Law School Deb Cohen No one arrives at law school with a clean slate; everyone comes with prior knowledge. This is important because constructivist learning theory indicates that we build on our existing knowledge.... |
Beginner | Faculty |
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Topic modeling: a Swiss Army knife for faculty, geeks, and librarians. Sara Frug, Thomas Bruce Unsupervised topic modeling is a sophisticated, machine-learning-based technique for extracting “aboutness” information from large collections of documents. That sounds scary, but it... |
Intermediate |
Faculty Technologist |
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Top Five Online Interactive Tools to Turn Legal Education into Legal Educa-FUN! Avery Le How do you keep your students' level of engagement and participation in your class at an all-time high when their brains are pre-occupied with the influx of laptops, mobile phones, tablets,... |
Beginner | Faculty |
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Time-Shifting in the Age of Dr. Who: Designing Interactive Asynchronous Skills and Seminar Courses Max Huffman, Cynthia Adams, Jeani Young Working with course designers provided by Indiana University through its IU Online initiative, we are designing fully... |
Beginner |
Faculty Technologist |
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The Road Less Traveled: don't be afraid to stray from the [treasure hunt] trail when assessing students' skills Michelle Botek Trumbo During this session, Michelle Trumbo discusses the critical role of assessments in upper-division legal research curricula and provides insight into best practices regarding the same. |
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Technology & Legal Education: Are 5th Graders Really Ahead of Us? Rebecca Trammell, Sara Laughlin Presenters: Dr. Sara Laughlin & Dr. Rebecca S. Trammell |
Intermediate |
Faculty Technologist |
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Tech triage for Incubator and Residency Programs – a new opportunity for Law Librarians and the Law School IT community. Michael Robak Currently there are at least 30 Law Schools and Bar Associations running incubator programs and the number may well double in the next year. The incubator programs for lawyers have only been in... |
Intermediate |
Librarian Technologist |
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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,... |
Beginner |
Faculty Librarian Technologist |
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Selecting & Using CALI Lessons in Your Courses Deb Quentel, Sandy Placzek, James Smith, Mary Lowe CALI has over 965 lessons spanning 35 areas of the law. Deciding which lessons to incorporate into your course can be challenging. For example, in core subject areas, CALI has more than 50 lessons... |
Intermediate |
Faculty Librarian |
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Saving Money and Space with tiny computers: Half your pi and asus too? Phillip Bohl, Chris Bombardo, Tom Ryan Trying to fit more PC units in a smaller budget? Want more power in less space? |
Intermediate | Technologist |
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Rutgers Law Library Goes Open Source: the Switch to Koha Caroline Young, John Joergensen, Joy Nelson This session will describe Rutgers Law Library's experience with converting its ILS from Millennium to Koha, an open source ILS. Koha is generally considered to be the first open source... |
Intermediate | Librarian |
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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 |
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Prep it, Scan it, and Describe it: Production Tools and Techniques for Description and Rapid Digitization of Manuscripts and Texts Steve Chapman, Paul Deschner Paul Deschner and Stephen Chapman of the Harvard Law School Library Lab will report on the tools and techniques that project teams have been using to describe and rapidly and cheaply digitize... |
Intermediate |
Librarian Technologist |
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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... |
Beginner |
Faculty Librarian Technologist |
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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... |
Beginner |
Faculty Technologist |
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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... |
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Mind Mapping: A Tool for Clinical Professors in Training the 21st Century Attorney Brett Stohs Mind mapping is an analytical and organizational tool that clinical law faculty can use to improve student and client outcomes in a clinical setting. Characterized by visual representations of... |
Intermediate | Faculty |
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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. |
Beginner |
Faculty Librarian Technologist |
