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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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 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
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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 |
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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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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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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... |
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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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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. |
Intermediate | |
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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 |
