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

Audience: All
Technical Level: Moderately Technical, but not past the ken of most

Search engines help you find stuff, and customized search engines configured with your collections in mind are great tools for helping your audience and directing its attention toward important things on your web site. This presentation will discuss the architecture of search engines, and various means of using and configuring them so as to enhance the usability of your site. The SWISH-E open-source search engine will be used as the main source of illustrations, though most if not all of the techniques that will be discussed can be carried out in most popular software, and the discussion of indexing capabilities and search techniques will be sufficiently generic as to apply to most who are running their own engines. Moderately technical, but not past the ken of most.

Here is the FreeMind map that goes with this presentation. You can get the appropriate software to read it at http://freemind.sourceforge.net/

The file is here: CALI search engine presentation.mm

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Thomas Bruce
Director, Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

Dozens of law schools are experimenting with podcasting as a delivery mechanism for distributing classroom lectures and special events--i.e., repackaging pre-existing content (not that there's anything wrong with that). Exploring the creative potential of podcasting as a medium of expression opens up opportunities to reach new publics in new ways. Find out how and why Jim tries to make law librarianship entertaining.

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James Milles
Director of the Law Library
State University of New York - Buffalo School of Law

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

Alumni wished they had it; recruiters demand it; students need it; faculty fight it. How can you successfully develop a practical course in Law Practice Management and meet the needs of all? Combining both practice management and business management into a single full semester course is one way. The University of Florida Levin College of Law has been teaching this course successfully for four years. It is always a full class.

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Andy Adkins
Associate Director, Technology Services
University of Florida College of Law

Audience: Anyone
Technical Level: Low

Apreso Classroom is an affordable automated lecture capture and Web publishing system that produces online versions of the classroom experience for on-demand student review. Permanently installed in the classroom, and operating without attendants, Apreso Classroom is the first lecture capture system affordable and practical enough to be deployed campus-wide. Educational institutions the world over are increasingly recognizing the value of making course lectures available to students for online review. They enable students to improve comprehension and retention, professors to improve the effectiveness of class and office hours, and universities to boost facility and technology usage. However, most solutions for getting lecture content online are prohibitively expensive, difficult to use, and lack the operational simplicity required for university-wide acceptance. Anystream's Apreso Classroom is an affordable automated lecture capture and Web publishing system that produces online versions of the classroom experience for on-demand student review. Apreso Classroom can be scheduled to start and stop automatically, removing the need for professors to learn to operate the system or change the way they teach. It automatically captures and synchronizes the professor's voice with visual aids being projected in the classroom, and posts an interactive, indexed Web-based version of the lecture to university websites or course management system. Designed specifically for higher education, Apreso Classroom's enterprise architecture integrates with campus-wide information systems. Permanently installed in the classroom, and operating without attendants, Apreso Classroom is the first lecture capture system affordable and practical enough to be deployed campus-wide.

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Mark Jones
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Anystream, Inc.

Tim MacEldowney
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Anystream, Inc.

Audience: All
Technical Level: Suits not required

A good technology officer must make the institution more efficient and meet the expectations of community members and related parties through the adoption and intelligent use of technology. This session discusses what the technology officer must be, have, and do to succeed. It is geared to current and aspiring IT officers, library directors and deans supervising the technology function, and librarians, faculty, and staff members interacting with the technology officer. The speaker will draw from the experience of well-known technology officers and industry publications to paint an accurate portrait of a successful technology officer.

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Pablo G Molina
CIO
Georgetown University Law Center

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

Concord Law School is a business unit of Kaplan, Inc., which is one of the Washington Post Companies. Concord is a fully online law school that has been in existence for 8 years. Over that time, its Learning Management System (LMS) has evolved to encompass all aspects of the law school experience including synchronous and asynchronous learning, web based registration, exam and quiz taking, assignment submission, grading, community building, faculty/student communication, virtual library resources, and career services. Recently, the synchronous classroom piece of the LMS has been revamped using Macromedia Flash Technology. Craig Gold, Professor and Associate Dean for Technology and the chief architect of the LMS and Steve Burnett, Associate Dean for Business Development will do a live demonstration the Flash based synchronous classroom as well other aspects of the Concord experience. Attendees will be able to participate in the synchronous classroom using their own computers.

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Stephen Burnett
Associate Dean for Business Development
Concord University School of Law

Craig Gold
Associate Dean for Technology
Concord University School of Law

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

While post hoc collections of journals like Hein Online and ad hoc collections of working papers like SSRN continue to grow, legal journals are by and large still only print enterprises. A great opportunity to share information freely and provide better, more usable and future-protected information is being squandered. The panelists will address why digitally publishing journals is in everyone's interest, what technologies promise the most good for preserving born-digital information, and other considerations and caveats in digitally publishing journals, with reference to the real-life experiences at two law schools.

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John Joergensen
Librarian
Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Camden

Wayne Miller
Director of Educational Technologies
Duke University School of Law

Gary Moore
Assistant Dean for Information Systems
Hofstra University School of Law

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

In the book, Got Game (Harvard Business School Press 2004), the authors concluded that extensive video-gaming experience has significantly affected the generation of young adults now entering the business world, i.e., they are better addapted to business than the earlier generation, but they present management problems to older managers who don't have similar video-gaming experience. Do law students have similar video-gaming experience? Could law students be afffected in the same way? Could such law students present a similar challenge to "older" faculty and staff members who lack similar video-gaming experience? Professors Ron Brown and Joe Grohman surveyed law students at Nova Southeastern University and on the CALI website searching for some of the answers. They will present and discuss their findings.

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Ronald Benton Brown
Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center

Joseph M. Grohman
Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

Learning By Design and other Fallacies: What Behavioral Economics, Serendipity and Procrastination Can Teach Us About Educational Technology

Behavioral economics has taught economists what non-economists had always claimed. People do not act as the rational actor model predicts. But behavioral economics teaches something more. There are predictable patterns in the ways that human behavior diverges from rational actor predictions. We routinely overvalue potential losses and undervalue potential gains. We rely on heuristics that "frame" problems in a manner that leads to well-understood skewing in our decisions. And so on. In his keynote address, Professor Boyle will argue that there are equivalents to these behavioral patterns in the ways we think about educational materials and technology: systematic biases in the ways that we understand (or faily to understand) their potential and to plan for their future. In particular, we systematically overestimate our ability to predict the uses of technology, and systematically undervalue the productive power of collective, common or "open" resources. Knowledge of these two cognitive biases, he argues, provides useful rules of thumb in designing new educational systems; if we cannot overcome our biases, we can at least learn to compensate for them.

MP3 of the plenary: calicon06PlenaryBoyle.mp3

Video (WMV format): calicon06PlenaryBoyle.wmv

James Boyle
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law

Audience: Law Faculty and Librarians
Technical Level: Low

This session will showcase how TWEN (The West Education Network) facilitated resource sharing between instructors teaching the same Legal Bibliography course at Georgia State University College of Law. Attendees will be able to:

1. Assess whether course management software is right for your classroom
2. Learn what GSU instructors and students liked and disliked about TWEN

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Elizabeth G. Adelman
Head of Public Services
Georgia State University College of Law

Audience: All
Technical Level: Sublime to Absurd

Looking for a chance to participate in a BS session without having to tap someone on the shoulder? Tired of waiting until evening by the bar to have your say? Join Tom Bruce, Ken Hirsh, Cyndi Dean, Tom Ryan, Ben Chapman and Elmer Master for a freewheeling session on issues of the day. Rants will be limited to give everyone a chance to speak their mind.
We'll start out together, and then if the participants wish break off into smaller groups to discuss areas of common interest. Think of it as a foray into an "unconference."

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Thomas Bruce
Director, Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School

Ben Chapman
Assistant Dean for Information Technology
Emory University School of Law

Cyndi Dean
Assistant Dean for Information Technology
University of New Mexico School of Law

Ken Hirsh
Director of Computing Services
Duke University School of Law

Tom Ryan
Director of IT
Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Camden

Audience: Networkers
Technical Level: Deep Geek

The session will deal in transaction clustering primarily for serving web pages. I will discuss the initial stages of what building a cluster is supposed to accomplish and how to determine organizational need. We will look at deciding on an operating system, and what packages are available to ease the transition. I will explain in broad terms, using the Linux Virtual Server project as an example, how to design and implement a cluster. I will go into detail about load balancing, redundancy and fault tolerance. We will discuss the administrative overhead associated with maintaining data in parity on the cluster and give examples on how this might be accomplished. I will give live demo of a functioning cluster showing how it load balances and imitate a failure to show redundancy. I will briefly describe how other services might be applied to the cluster model. There will be time at the end to take questions... or eat pie.

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Daniel Nagy
Sys Admin, Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School

Audience: Anyone
Technical Level: Low

This program will focus on the software that manages the legal resources that the students find for their legal writing papers. It is based on my experience of using CiteIT for my advocacy's Appellate Brief writing. Effectively managing the resources for law students can take much of the hassle out of the writing process, and can help students to focus on the content first and then on the citation style later. This is also consistent with the trend of moving from paper heavy to online environment, effectively using technology for the services of legal writing.

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Don Zhou
Head, Technical Services
William Mitchell College of Law

Audience: All
Technical Level: Hardhats required

Now that we have built out our infrastructure to support wide spread use of computers and wireless access to the network in the classrooms....should we turn it off?

Does the presence of laptops sometimes distract students (or the students in the next seat) from what the instructor is saying?

Is it up to the instructor to decide....or the institution?

This session may post more questions than it answers, but the discussion promises to be lively.

<>This just in from Prof. Paul Caron's blog...The War Over Student Use of Laptops (includes video). (John Mayer)

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Greg Laughlin
Associate Dean
University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law

Lisa Smith-Butler
Assistant Dean, Law Library & Technology Center & Assistant Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center

Audience: Help Desk
Technical Level: Kinda Techie

The University of Missouri / Kansas City School of Law has developed a unique program to assist students with their laptop computer needs. The UMKC School of Law does not require our students to own a laptop, though most students do. This meant that our IT personnel spent a considerable amount of their time helping students with computer problems on a wide variety of laptops. However, the administration made a strategic decision not to impose a mandatory laptop requirement on our students. Instead, we developed the UMKC Laptop Clinic, which was designed not only to benefit our students and IT personnel, but also to embrace our school's strategic vision.

Ostensibly, the purpose of the clinic is to make life easier for our students by providing the tools they need to keep their laptop running properly, and by allowing them to spend their time productively rather than on distractions. The clinic is manned by an undergraduate computer student, which means we exploit local university resources, and our IT personnel spend their time on more immediate computing problems. The Laptop Clinic Technician is responsible for diagnosing basic computer problems, imaging computers, installation of hardware/software, and running virus software in conjunction with spyware programs. The typical technician has extensive working knowledge of laptop computer systems and wireless capabilities in a Windows XP (SP2) environment. The ability to interact well with law faculty, staff and students is a requirement of this position, as is a good customer-service attitude. This session will discuss the initial development of the clinic, actual implementation, and the results over the past year. You will leave the session with the information you need (1) to decide whether this is a program you need and that would work at your school, and (2) to present a proposal to your dean.

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Phill Johnson
Director of Electronic Services and Communications
University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law

Audience: Anyone
Technical Level: Low to Medium

So your faculty are interested in podcasting. You can hand them a personal digial recorder and point them to CALI's FAQs or create a local infrastructure of support. Elmer single-handedly recorded over 200 hours of AALS sessions (close to 120 sessions) and wrote Classcaster, the software that drives the Legal Education Podcasting Project in which over 30 faculty created 1000+ course podcasts. The last part of this session will be a discussion of how to make your school podcast-friendly and even integrate your podcasts with Apple iTunes.

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Elmer Masters
Director of Internet Development
CALI

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Audience: All
Technical Level: Caffeinated

Podcasting/Classclaster/Streaming Media

Everyone is familiar with the technology. Want to provide it now, and do so in an automated way? Come listen and see what Rutgers is doing to provide a truly robust automated solution.

Tom will showcase Rutgers automated podcast/streaming video solution on a budget solution. He will discuss the hardware used, installation practices, backend software necessary and demo the software as well.

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Tom Ryan
Director of IT
Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Camden

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

Based on my recently published article, this session will give an overview of what law students are writing in their web logs about law libraries. The article can be found at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/newsletter/25_2/Blawgs.htm

I will present the information as a PowerPoint, that will provide much more than is contained in the article. Comments about library facilities, personnel, books, computers, furniture, etc. etc. This presentation should be informative and amusing.

Additionally, I will preview some of the research I have been conducting into law professor web logs, too.

Approximately 45 minutes for this presentation.

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Robert W Hudson
Faculty Services Librarian
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

Presentation Powerpoint: Faculty_Rewards.ppt
Book References: references.pdf

Law School's employ faculty for the primary roles of: teaching, researching, and producing publications. However in addition to these responsibilities it is clear faculty are expected to participate in committees, advise student, develop curriculum, organize scholastic activities, attend events, adopt technology, act as a liaison, continually self educate in their respective fields, attend and present at workshops/conferences, and play an active role in the community.

This round-table discussion is targeted to focus on our institutions organizational structure, culture, departmental priorities, and reward systems that shape the roles of each faculty member (at least prior to tenure). It is clear that many challenges emerge when a dis-connect occurs between these systems and the drive to engage faculty in technology adoption. Put another way, faculty roles are changing and the review, promotion, and tenure system is not.

I am hoping we can move close to answering the following questions:

*What are the current organizational structures, cultures, department priorities, and reward systems at your institution?

*How can they be changed to incorporate a technology adoption component directly in each system and promote/motivate faculty participation? (i.e. time, funding, staff, tenure, etc?)

*How can we increase faculty participation in professional development activities to better prepare them for technology pedagogy?

*How can engaged faculty, students, and support staff work together as a change agent to promote organizational change?

*How do we evaluate teaching and learning in adoption initiatives and who is accountable?

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Patricia L Baia
Instructional Technologist
Albany Law School

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Audience: Anyone
Technical Level: Medium

Barbara Ginsburg and Glen McBeth from Washburn University School of Law will give a hands-on demonstration of video techniques and common video editing software. These are commonly used for creating instructional videos.

• Powerpoint Slides
• Media Files

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Barbara Ginzburg
Instructional Technology Librarian
Washburn University School of Law

Glen McBeth
Reference Librarian/Instructional Technologist
Washburn University School of Law

Audience: Anyone
Technical Level: Low

Each year, the Legal Writing and Research faculty at Wayne State University Law School, a staff of five, introduce 200-250 students to the process of legal research and writing. The law librarians at the Arthur Neef Law Library work closely with the Legal Writing and Research (LWR) faculty to plan and present supplementary workshops that expose students to the materials they are expected to use to complete research assignments made in the first semester as well as an Appellate Brief in the second semester. Unfortunately, these workshops do not allow students the hands-on introduction or the one-on-one attention from librarians that students desire and librarians would prefer to make available.

To provide more active learning in the use of library resources at WSU, the Director of the Legal Writing and Research Program, two law librarians and the library?s Applications? Specialist sought and were awarded an Innovative Instructional Technology Grant by the Office of the Provost in Fall, 2005 to create Legal Writing and Research Library Workshop Modules (LWR-LW Modules). The project allows law librarians to provide bibliographic instruction in a manner that responds to student requests for individualized assistance using technology already available on campus. The Applications Specialist, an instructional designer, worked with the law librarians to assess user needs and to develop and deliver materials online made up of screen and document snapshots with voice over lectures to assist students in completing LWR assignments. Use of the Modules is also extended to the hundreds of non-law students on campus who take courses where legal research is necessary including Business, Education and Social Work policy courses as well as reference courses in the Library and Information Science Program.

Interactive Modules were created under the grant on the following topics:

Print Secondary Resources Computerized Indexes Federal Statutes Federal Cases Updating resources: Shepard?s and Key Cite State Statutes and Cases Free Online Legal Research

In this session, Librarian, Lauren Collins, who wrote the grant proposal and spearheaded the resulting program, will discuss the grant process, chronicle the development of the Modules, and provide a demonstration of the finished product.

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Lauren Michelle Collins
Public Service Librarian/Instruction
Wayne State University Law School

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low with some Medium

Our goal is to examine what is possible with classroom technology. What would an ideal classroom look like today? or 5 years from today? Classroom technology can be done on the cheap, but what would an ideal classroom look like (if cost were not a concern). We would use the University of Texas as an example of a cheap implementation, but one that still incorporates many interesting technologies, such as tablet pc's, ceiling-mounted document cameras, and central control systems.

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Ray Andrade
Media & Technology Specialist
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center

Michael Harvey
Educational Technology Coordinator
University of Texas School of Law

June Liebert
CIO and Lecturer
University of Texas School of Law

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

Over the past 7 years, the Law School Admission Council has become the preeminent player in providing technology-based services to the law school admission offices. In its special position as a membership organization made up of the 196 U.S. ABA-approved law schools and 15 Canadian law schools, LSAC is not ?just another vendor? but is an organization integral to establishment of these services. They are continually being asked to provide more services for law school applicants, law school admission offices and other related contingencies.

During the fall of 2005, technology professionals from 135 law schools participated in four regional technology conferences which were hosted by LSAC. The topics of these conferences covered a general overview of LSAC but focused on their next generation admission services named ACES2. An update on ACES2 will be presented later on in this conference. This session will focus on what LSAC has done over the recent past, its plans for the next couple of years, and its strategic vision of the types of services that may be offered in the future.

Bruce Bachman, Vice President of the Information Services Division and Chief Information Officer for LSAC will present the past, present and future. With an IT organization numbering over 100 people, Bruce will also be happy to share any insights and ideas that he has as a CIO in a company dedicated to law school services. So, bring your questions!

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Bruce Bachman
VP, Information Services Division
LSAC

Audience: Faculty, Instructional Technologies, Leadership, IT Staff
Technical Level: Middling

The increasing volume of digital information that researchers' collect and create make the task of finding, capturing, organizing and eventually collaborating with digital data more difficult. Multiple silos of data (e-mail, files on hard dives, web documents and databases for example) exasperate the problem of finding digital information in a timely manner.

Fortunately the tools for organizing and finding digital information have finally started to catch up with the large pools of data that we are collecting. Vannevar Bush was ahead of his time back in 1945 when he envisioned a device that would allow and individual to store "all his books, recoreds, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory." (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/194507/bush) Today we are very close to Bush's 60 year old vision. There is no one size fits all formula for how a researcher will optimally manage their data, but rather we will look at a number of tools researchers at our University have used separatly and in combination to manage data organization, searching and citation, as well as facilitate knowledge sharing. Some of the software tools we will look at include:

- Desktop search tools (Google Desktop & Windows Desktop Search)
- e-Document Management (Onfolio, Firefox Scholar, OneNote, Evernote)
- Social Software (del.icio.us, Flickr)
- e-Conferencing (Skype, Msn Messenger)
- Collaborative Research (SharePoint, Alfresco, Silk, Plone, Groove virtual office)
- Real Time Document Editing (MSN Messenger Application Sharing, VNC, Webex)

The two major benefits that come from effective knowledge management and knowledge sharing are an increase in the speed and quality of the research being performed. Less time is spent looking for information that has already been identified, so that more time can be spend in analyzing and associating desperate pieces of information. Electronic tools can make possible collaboration between colleagues that in the past would have been difficult, if not impossible to do. A group of nine Law Professors at two Universities have used our some of our collaboration tools to successfully share research and collaborate in a way that would have been very difficult five years ago. Not all faculty and staff find every tool useful, but for some they present solutions to long standing problems.

Whether they realize it or not, most researchers are struggling with the mountains of digital data that they have accumulated during their careers. If shown the tools available to them to find, capture and collaborate, our experience is that many, if not most, will start to use at least some of these knowledge management tools to move effectively manage and share their data.

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Rich McCue
Systems Administrator
University of Victoria Law School

Audience: All
Technical Level: Pretty Geeky

Since our OPACs are essentially glorified web browsers, expensive, overpowered Windows machines could be replaced with a more secure, much less maintenance-intensive, and cost-effective (read: free) solution, making use of already available hardware. I will demonstrate how I built Web-browsing kiosks for our library OPAC machines using Firefox and GNU/Linux. The kiosk project is Live-CD based, and I will demo the kiosk as part of the presentation.

The presentation will cover the following issues:

• Remastering the CD
• Installing packages
• Securing the system
• Tweaking and Locking down Firefox
• Windows machines not completely gone! (just mostly)
• Current status of the project

slides: http://calicon06.classcaster.org/blog/resource/firefox_kiosk_slides/cali.tar.gz

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Michael Hurley
Webmaster/System Administrator
University of Connecticut Law School

Audience: All
Technical Level: None requried

Nova's Dean Harbaugh has been an avid proponent of technology in legal education for many years. In this session, he will discuss frankly why technology can be an enhancement to law school operations, education and administration. He will also offer advice and insight into how IT looks from the Dean's Office that will be valuable to you at your home institutions.

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Joseph D. Harbaugh
Dean and Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center

Audience: Faculty
Technical Level: Low

This presentation will include several speakers who participated in CALI's Legal Education Podcasting Project this past spring. Some of the faculty recorded their class lectures and others created weekly summaries for their students.

One of the things that will be explored is the connection between podcasts, and more active learning experiences. We will also pose questions, and have a discussion about the following topics:

What are the benefits of the in the classroom, live lecture or discussion, class expereince for our students, and are we gradually disaggregating the law school teaching system by providing other ways to learn and experience law school classes.

Is this the wave of the future?

Is the live class soon to be an anachronism?

Are there other benefits for live classroom interaction in professional schools, in which students are taught the professional norms, culture, vocabulary and values of their area of professional study, and have the opportunity to interect with and learn from fellow students.

Could some or all of these goals of benefits of graduate and professional education by provided through online learning, or various substitutes for a live class.

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Debra R. Cohen
Associate Professor of Law
Southern New England School of Law

Andrea L. Johnson
Professor of Law
California Western School of Law

Gregory Lee Ogden
Profesor of law
Pepperdine University School of Law

In addition to the recording from this session that will be posted soon, there are also recorded interviews with other law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project at http://caliopolis.classcaster.org. Choose the "podcast" category to see all of the interviews.

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

What is Rip, Mix, Learn?

It's a metaphor for the way the digital and real world is evolving and how we use it. It's having the web your way, and sometimes that's the fastest of fast information food. All of the traditional information flows from main-stream media, institutional authorities, government, scholarship are affected by the RML notion that the static web of the early 90's and the one-way web of the early 00's is now the read/write web and the conversation-web of the present. This has particularly interesting ramifications for education.

I will explore some of these ramifications with specific examples from recent insights in podcasting, electronic journals, blogging and electronic course materials and relate them to directions that I believe legal education is heading.

John Mayer
Executive Director
CALI

This presentation is over and I hope that it wasn't too dense or confusing. I really had to work to get it down to under 50 minnutes. The presentation was recorded and we will post the video here soon. In the meantime, here is a link to the Powerpoints - JohnMayerThursdayPlenaryFINAL.ppt

MP3 of the plenary: calicon06PlenaryMayer01.mp3

Video (WMV format): calicon06PlenaryMayer.wmv

Feel free to comment on the presentation in this blog post.