Accepted sessions

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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
It's Time to Change the CALI Conference - Discussion of the Future of CALICon
John Mayer
Beginner
Faculty
Librarian
Technologist
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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