CALICon06

This is the official blog for the 2006 conference held Thursday-Saturday, June 15-17, 2006 at Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad Law Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Each conference session has its own blog post, arranged by date. You can access them here:

• Thursday, June 15
• Friday, June 16
• Saturday, June 17

Here are this week's highlighted sessions from the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing®:

• Creating and Teaching a Law Practice Management Course: Going Beyond The Norm - Andy Adkins
• Podcasting For Fun and Non-Profit - James Milles
• Search Engines - Tom Bruce

Here are this week's highlighted sessions from the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing®:

• Concord Law School's Learning Management System and Flash Classroom Chat - Stephen Burnett, Craig Gold
• IT Leadership Skills - Pablo Molina
• Lecture Capture as a Critical Learning Platform for Law Schools - Jason Jones

Here are this week's highlighted sessions from the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing®:

• TWEN in Your Classroom? - Elizabeth G. Adelman
• Got Gamers? Law Students and Videogaming - Ronald Benton Brown, Joseph M. Grohman
• Legal Journals and Digital Publishing - John Joergensen, Wayne Miller, Gary Moore

Here are this week's highlighted sessions from the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing®:

• Legal Bibliography Management and Student Writing Programs - Don Zhou
• Dealing in Clusterfication - Dan Nagy
• Bull Session - Ken Hirsh

Here are this week's highlighted sessions from the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing®:

• Podcasting and Blogging for Legal Education - Elmer Masters
• Why does it pay to repair your student's laptops for free (and how can you afford to do it)? - Phill Johnson
• Laptops in the Classroom - Pros and Cons - Greg Laughlin, Lisa Smith-Butler

Here are this week's highlighted sessions from the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing®:

• Faculty Engagement /Technology Adoption: Round table discussion - Patricia L Baia
• Law Students Write About Law Libraries - Robert W. Hudson
• Automated Media - Tom Ryan

Here are this week's highlighted sessions from the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing®:

• Into the Future with Classroom Technology - Ray Andrade, Michael Harvey, June Liebert
• Legal Writing and Research Library Workshop Modules: Teaching Legal Bibliography Using Instructional Technology in Innovative Ways - Lauren Michelle Collins
• Vegas, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere and Motion- Review of consumer video editing software - Barbara Ginzburg, Glen McBeth

Here are this week's highlighted sessions from the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing®:

• Creating Firefox Kiosks with GNU/Linux - Michael Hurley
• Personal Knowledge Management & Collaboration Strategies for Legal Researchers & IT Staff - Rich McCue
• Inside LSAC: Past, Present and Future - Bruce Bachman

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Welcome to CALICon06 highlights. Each week we'll highlight three sessions from the the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing. If you subscribe to the podcast feed for this blog, you will get the MP3s for 3 sessions each week. The highlights feed will bring you each week's post about with links to the highlighted sessions.

This week's highlighted sessions are:

• Opening Plenary: Rip, Mix, Learn - John Mayer
• Podcasting Law School Courses: The Classcaster Experiment - Debra R. Cohen, Andrea L. Johnson, Gregory Lee Ogden
• Dean's Eye View of Technology in Law Schools - Joseph D. Harbaugh

This year's conference was just great. I want to thank all of the people at Nova for being so understanding and accommodating (especially to me and all of my weird requests). I am looking forward to next year's conference in Vegas.


Thanks to CALI conferences, I have a pretty good idea of what a technological classroom looks like, and even some idea of how it might evolve over the next few years. But I came away from this conference wondering what a technological library will look like say, 5 years from now. Will we still have a library? (I'm pretty sure we will.) Will we have electronic resources librarians or their titular equivalents? (Some suggest maybe not.) (More)

To comment on this blog, you need to complete a Captcha. This one requires you to type in a sequence of numbers, something I'm invaribly going to get wrong more often than not. I wonder if, instead, we could use KittenAuth instead. Ok, they've recently rewritten it so it's a bit buggy, but I find it much easier (and more fun) to click on pictures of cute animals than type boring numbers. (Ok, I know we can't really use KittenAuth; I just find it amusing.)

Pithiness and links to come later. The darn program ate my last post! You can find my comments from yesterday at all these locations: Keynote: Professor James Boyle, Center for Study of the Public Domain, Got Gamers? Law Students and Videogaming, VitalSource, Implementing tools for collaboration across boundaries, and WEX - An Online Legal Encyclopedia.

Dinner at Cafe Du Paris. The duck and shrimp were very good. The ginger ale was so-so.

Edited to fix the links.

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

Authoring a CALI lesson, whether as part of a CALI Fellowship or alone, requires faculty to approach, and to think about, the material that makes up their courses differently. The Family Law Fellowship started in January 2006, and the Fellows are still immersed in the lesson-writing process. To date, only four of each Fellow�s lessons have been written (and re-written). From this unique vantage point, four of the team's Fellows will share their observations and insights about the impact of authoring on both their teaching and their writing.

MP3: BiernatLLSat900.mp3

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Len Biernat
Professor of Law
Hamline University School of Law

Andrea Charlow
Professor of Law
Drake University Law School

Deb Quentel
Director of Curriculum Development & Gen. Counsel
CALI

Janet Richards
Cecil C. Humphreys Professor of Law
University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law

Cynthia Starnes
Professor
Michigan State University College of Law

Audience: Authors and Web Coordinators
Technical Level: Medium to ? (basic concepts will be of interest to all)

Web sites and collections of course materials present challenges in editing, updating and presenting information in the most highly usable forms. Information is most useful when it is categorized and indexed, but kept separate from the delivery mechanics.

This presentation will introduce the basic principles of content management and information presentation with immediately-usable examples of content placed on the web. Specific examples include the use of database-driven web pages, style sheets, XML systems (podcasts, newsfeeds, etc.) and content management systems.

MP3: DanielsLR5Sat1200.mp3

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Earl A. Daniels
College of Law Web Coordinator
Georgia State University College of Law

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