Accepted sessions
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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... |
Beginner |
Faculty Librarian |
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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 |
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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... |
Beginner |
Faculty Technologist |
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Improving Access to Non-CFR Federal Regulations Using Linked Data Technology Rebecca Kunkel This session will describe how Rutgers-Newark Law Library is creating an archive of regulations from military agencies within the Department of Defense. The program will discuss the... |
Intermediate |
Librarian Technologist |
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Incorporating Technology, Business Development and Marketing in the Law School Curriculum Harold O'Grady, Lloyd Carew-Reid The ABA Model Rules were recently changed to include a technology component. |
Intermediate | Faculty |
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Introducing CALI eLangdell Lawbooks Elmer Masters This session will introduce the CALI eLangdell Lawbooks platform for self-service legal publishing. Built on the Open Textbook and Pressbooks plugins for Wordpress, CALI eLangdell Lawbooks... |
Intermediate |
Faculty Librarian Technologist |
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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 |
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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... |
Beginner |
Faculty Technologist |
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Is this thing on? Using your video management system to go beyond basic lecture capture Deborah Ginsberg Lecture capture systems are great for recording classes - a couple of clicks and students get instant access to videos, slides, and more. But these systems are capable of handling even more... |
Beginner |
Faculty Technologist |
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It's Time to Change the CALI Conference - Discussion of the Future of CALICon John Mayer |
Beginner |
Faculty Librarian Technologist |
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Legal education resources by the AALS for deans, faculty and staff Pablo Molina Founded in 1900, the Association of American Law Schools, www.aals.org, offers valuable resources to deans, faculty and staff of member law... |
Intermediate |
Faculty Librarian Technologist |
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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 |
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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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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 | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
