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Session Experience level Track
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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