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2000 Conference: Going the Distance

9:00a-10:15a

Reconstructing Legal Education at a Distance [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

The first Distance Learning Workshop presented by Chicago-Kent and CALI was titled "Deconstructing the Law School Classroom." Peter Martin opened the meeting with an examination of the elements of the law school classroom. He described a series of objectives, successes and weaknesses of the traditional law school classroom. Peter concluded that there was room, perhaps even the imperative, that new tools be examined to find opportunities to improve legal education. This year, Hank Perritt and Ron Staudt will explore emerging opportunities to reconstruct law school learning through distance instruction, both as an exclusive device to support legal learning and as an integrated set of tools combined with on site instruction. Professor Martin will again participate in opening the Second Distance Learning Workshop but this year from a distance. He will describe and demonstrate his new distance learning courses in Copyright and Social Security from his office at Cornell.

Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
Dean
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Illinois Institute of Technology
565 West Adams
Chicago, IL 60661
hperritt@kentlaw.edu

Ronald W. Staudt [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Professor of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Illinois Institute of Technology
565 West Adams
Chicago, IL 60661
rstaudt@kentlaw.edu

Peter Martin
Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
martin@lii.law.cornell.edu

Models of Distance Education [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

It is now a commonplace to suggest that higher education is going to be changed radically by the Internet. Of course, this observation applies to law schools and legal education -- perhaps more strongly than other disciplines -- and a number of commentators have made predictions about the future of the legal academy. As with all predictions, these ideas are speculative, contingent, and as likely to be proved wildly incorrect as they are to be proved to be prescient. The problem becomes, then, how to create a methodology for relatively accurate prediction of the future of legal education. This paper addresses the problem by taking the notion of 'clockspeed' from the management theory of [Fine 1998]. Fine suggests that it is possible to predict the movement of slow-moving industries, by examining related industries with a faster 'clockspeed'. This paper therefore takes the slow-clockspeed industry of legal education and analyzes it using fast-clockspeed electronic commerce industries. It will examine e-commerce models and developments, to predict some of the important features of how legal education will likely change in the e-commerce decade ahead.

This workshop paper is for senior law school administration, law professors wondering about their future, and other interested educators. It is intended to provide a basis for discussion and thinking about the future of your law school.

Dr. Dan Hunter [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Phone (215) 573-7154
Fax (215) 573-2006
hunterd@wharton.upenn.edu

Jack Goetz
Dean and President
Concord School of Law
jack_goetz@concord.kaplan.edu

Edwin Eisendrath
Vice President for Corporate Communications and Learning Communities
UNext, Inc.
eisendrath@unext.com

12:00p-1:15p

Faculty Views on the Possibilities and Problems of Distance Learning [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

This will be a panel discussion and exchange with the audience about the issues facing faculties as they think about distance learning. The coverage will range from from one end where a law school with the most advanced technology considers how best to use it to the other end, which is more common, where a law school with modest technological resources wants to have someone teach its students or have one of its faculty members teach students at another school through distance teaching.

Frank Newton
Dean
Texas Tech University School of Law
xhwfn@ttacs.ttu.edu

Lisle Baker
Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108
617-573-8186
617-723-5872
lbaker@acad.suffolk.edu

John Baker
Professor of Law
Louisiana State University
School of Law
jbaker@lsu.edu

2:30p-3:30p

• Why did you choose a virtual law school over a fixed-facility law school?
• Are your courses meeting your expectations for a "good law school education"?
• Are your courses encouraging you to "think like a lawyer"?
• Are they rigorous?
• How do you "meet" other students and form collegial networks?
• Do you participate in anything like a traditional law "study group"?
• How do you mesh distance education and a job? Family responsibilities? Travel?
• How many hours a week do you spend studying?
• What do you plan to do with your law degree when you graduate?
• What kind of individual do you think does best in a distance learning law school?
• After six months of distance education, what would you change? Keep?
• If you had friends, would you encourage or discourage them form considering a distance education law school?

David will be joined by Dr. Martha Siegel, Dean of Students, who will provide background information on the student body as a whole.

2:30p-3:30p

Computerized simulations have great promise for delivering experince-based education at low cost, over long distance. The problem has been the high cost and great difficulty of creating realistic situational simulations. Trial Builder puts the power to build realistic trial simulations on the desktop, where those who know trials can get right to the story without the need for programmers, graphic artists, or videographers. This presentation will take you step by step through the production process, beginning with creating the script, then the initial implementation and testing of the script using Trial Builder's animated characters, then to the final implementation of the trial using video to represent the witnesses, judge and other characters in the story. Every step of the entire process, from brainstorm to final delivery, will be demonstrated. This session will be understandable by anyone who can produce a decent Powerpoint presentation.

Professor Hugh Gibbons
Franklin Pierce Law Center
HGibbons@fplc.edu

Westlaw Intranet Integration & Customization [BACK TO AGENDA]
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Who should attend: Professors who host or want to host their own website, IT personnel and webmasters.

Harness the power of Westlaw on your Web site. Learn how you can integrate Westlaw content and functionality seamlessly. You'll learn how to create custom query templates and other powerful Westlaw tools.

Laz Hernandez
Manager, Technology Integration and Customization
laz.hernandez@westgroup.com
651 687-7529

Outsourcing Distance Learning with Collegis [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

4:00p-5:00p

Who Should Attend: Faculty and administrators of Internet-based law-oriented classes

By now, everyone knows that merely putting lecture notes up on a web page does not constitute effective teaching in an Internet-based distance learning environment. However, it requires a great deal of time and energy to not only learn the latest available technology, but to also figure out how it can help you to help your students learn.

This workshop will analyze some of the technologies and pedagogies utilized in the distance learning programs offered by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Topics covered will include (but are not limited to): adapting the Socratic Method and other teaching methods to online law teaching, teacher-student-community issues which every professor should consider, student opinions of different technologies, and an introduction to a useful new software program developed by Harvard Law School students working for the Berkman Center.

Michelle L. Spaulding
Fellow
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School
1563 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
(617)495-7547
mspauldi@law.harvard.edu

Many law schools lack the personnel and curriculum time to teach much more than just the basics of legal research. While Chicago-Kent has committed both resources generously to this endeavor, the law school has also been at the forefront of supplementing classroom instruction with web-based tutorials, particularly for more sophisticated legal research areas such as empirical research and legislative histories. Working with the LRW program, the librarians at CK have developed Internet-based materials (multi-media tutorials and self-paced exercises) for students' use in learning and enhancing legal research skills.

Gretchen Van Dam
gvandam@kentlaw.edu

Fred Barnhart
fbarnhart@kentlaw.edu

Petal Kinder [WEB SITE]
Lecturer, Computerised Legal Research
Monash University, Faculty of Law
Wellington Road,
CLAYTON, Vic., 3800 AUSTRALIA
E-mail: p.kinder@law.monash.edu.au
Phone: +61.3.9905 3335
Fax: +61.3.9905 5305

4:00p-5:00p

9:00a-10:00a

10:30a-11:30a

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

Ms. Libert supports instructional uses of technology by law faculty at UT. She assists in the creation of course web pages as well as computer presentations. UT Law is in the process of proposing a "Center for Technology, Teaching, and Learning" which will provide faculty with a place where they (and their RA's and staff) have access to high-end multimedia equipment. The Center will also coordinate training for Powerpoint and other instructional tools. It will be staffed by a few law/library students and me.

CALI has just completed the first full year of its Fellowship Project. Four Criminal Law faculty were selected to create small, modular, instructional "lessonettes" covering as much of the first year course in Criminal Law as possible.

Ms. Quentel's portion of this session will include three parts:

1. A strategy for creating a comprehensive and malleable set of web-based
(asynchronous) teaching materials,

2. A (short) description of the CALI Fellowship project and its goals towards implementing the strategy described in (1), and,

3. Some observations about the success of our approach and what we are
doing differently in our second year of the project.

June Liebert [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
University of Texas
School of Law
jliebert@mail.law.utexas.edu

Deb Quentel
Director of Curriculum Development/General Counsel
CALI
312-906-5353
dquentel@cali.org

10:30a-11:30a

10:30a-11:30a

This session will address the complexities involved in hiring, training, motivating, and retaining student computing workers. The issue of supervising traditional library student workers – circulation and shelving assistants, for example – has been addressed in the literature and in other conference programs. Supervising student computing workers (inside or outside the library) has additional challenges that do not arise with traditional library workers – student computing workers must possess more advanced skills coming into the job, they must be able to problem-solve and troubleshoot software and hardware problems, and they must be able to keep their cool when dealing with stressed-out law students and demanding faculty. How do we attract the right type of student computing workers, maximize their time and skills for the benefit of the institution, and keep them interested in the job?

Three presenters will each provide brief background information on their institution and its computing structure, and then will illustrate the real-life challenges they have faced with respect to hiring, training, motivating, and retaining student computing workers, sharing both successes and failures. During the questions/comments period of the program, attendees will be encouraged to share creative solutions they have developed. Interested attendees may bring training manuals or other materials they have created and would like to share with program presenters and other participants.

The session is non-technical, and is intended for anyone who supervises student workers or is interested in learning about the challenges faced by co-workers who do supervise student workers.

Here is a link the Lab Monitor's Manual.

Here is a link to the Printer Check Sheet.

Here is a link to the LEXIS & Westlaw Representatives Guidelines.

Here is a link to the Powerpoint presentation.

Here is a bibliography with some web links.

Ana Hinman
Reference Librarian
Washoe County Law Library
75 Court Street, 1st Floor
PO BOX 30083
Reno, NV 89520-3083
phone--775-328-3095
fax--775-328-3441
ahinman@mail.co.washoe.nv.us

Darcy L. Jones
Automated Systems/Technical Services Librarian
University of Missouri-Columbia Law Library
224C Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
(573) 882-9680
fax: (573) 882-9676
JonesDL@missouri.edu

Sarah W. Conrad
Electronic Services & Training Librarian
Case Western Reserve University Law Library
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-7158
(216) 368-5342
fax: (216) 368-1002
swc3@po.cwru.edu

10:30a-11:30a

The OYEZ Project [BACK TO AGENDA]
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The OYEZ Project is a multimedia relational database devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States. Supported by major grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, OYEZ contains abstracts of 1000+ constitutional law decisions, biographical sketches and portraits of all 108 justices, links to written opinions (paginated to the U.S. Reports), a multi-node QuickTime Virtual Reality tour of the Supreme Court building, and 1500+ hours of streamed oral arguments in cases docketed from October 1955 through February 1999. The project has a large following with more than 20,000 unique user sessions a day and more than 2 million page views a month.

The OYEZ oral argument archive is a vast resource for research and instructional purposes. The audio materials provide an aperture into the thinking of individual justices and the coalitions they seek to build. Written transcripts do not reveal the identities of the justices. But with some simple training, it is possible to unlock the justices' identities. Beyond the historical and research potential of the audio materials, the ready availability of the oral arguments provides extraordinary preparation for the vast majority of advocates who are unaware of the experience that awaits them. The Project is experimenting with ways to synchronize transcripts and audio materials. Using Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL), the Project is exploring ways to deliver voice-identified versions of its audio archive. By providing an accurate text link to oral arguments, it will be possible conduct text searches with audio playback in context.

Jerry Goldman is professor of political science at Northwestern University where he has been a leading advocate (some colleagues would say "thorn") for the use of information technology in research and teaching. Goldman is the recipient of numerous awards for his work. In 1997, he received the EDUCOM Medal for his contributions to the use of computing in teaching and research. In 1997, he received the Silver Gavel Award from the ABA for The OYEZ Project in recognition of its contribution to public understanding of law. In 1999, Goldman received the Okidata Best Instructional Software Award from the American Political Science Association for his CD-ROM, The Supreme Court's Greatest Hits (published by Northwestern University Press).

Jerry Goldman
Professor of Political Science
Northwestern University
j-goldman@northwestern.edu

12:00p-1:00p (during lunch)

CALI Editorial Board Meeting [BACK TO AGENDA]

The CEB will be holding its semiannual meeting on Thursday, June 22, 2000 in room 210 from noon -1 p.m. Lunch is from 11:30 - 1 p.m. So, either eat before our meeting, or bring your lunch to our meeting. And, just in case our room assignment changes, please check the Conference Schedule when you arrive. Topics to be discussed include our successful review of the Library this past semester, and our future media review of (and additions to) CALI's Library. I look forward to seeing you at the Conference.

Deb Quentel
Director of Curriculum Development/General Counsel
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
dquentel@cali.org
312-906-5353

1:00p-2:00p

Comparing Web Database Methods [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

This session will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of using various methods of getting your information from the Web into a database and out again. Several examples will be presented using Microsoft Frontpage, WebDb, Javascript, and Oracle Application Server.

Joel McCleskey
Legal Information Technology, Director
University of Houston
(713) 743-2260
JMcCleskey@UH.Edu

1:00p-2:00p

What makes a "good" teacher for Distance Learning? The Dean of Faculty for Concord University -- the only law school to use online instruction as a primary tool -- will answer this question and many others as he takes a close look at "A Day in the Life of a Concord Law Professor." Specifically, Dean Brandes will discuss the mental dexterity and technical aptitude required to teach online classes, the many creative ways to collaborate with students and colleagues at a distance, the critical need to provide prompt responses to student questions, and the techniques for grading assignments in an asynchronous world where papers never arrive in a single "batch" -- making correlative ranking comparisons more difficult.

In the second part of the program, Dean Brandes will explain how Concord adapts tried-and-true techniques -- and invents new ones -- for preparing its faculty to be effective online legal educators. He will highlight the Seven Essential Attributes to look for when selecting online teachers and describe how Concord screens candidates. He will also describe the Learning Outcomes of Concord's training programs and the means used to achieve them, from "practice" grading to demonstration classes. The program ends with an overview of Faculty Evaluation techniques, including how to use one tool that is unique to online distance education -- recorded classes.

Time permitting, a question-and-answer session will follow.

Greg Brandes
Assistant Dean of Faculty
Concord University School of Law
1133 Westwood Boulevard
Suite 2010
Los Angeles CA 90024
greg_brandes@concord.kaplan.edu
http://concordlawschool.com

1:00p-2:00p

Revamping the Organization's Web Site in a Busy Environment: The Cornell Law Library Experience [BACK TO AGENDA]
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Completely revamping a large law library web site can be a formidable task in today's busy environment given design, content, public relations, and staffing considerations. This presentation will address the question of what goes into creating a new web site to better serve the organization's consumers. Speakers will focus on design features and content-enhancement of the new Cornell Law Library web site, which transforms common "brochureware" into dynamic content. The discussion will also explore ideas for allocating design, content, promotion, and responsibilities among library personnel without significantly disrupting the normal flow of business.

Brandy Kreisler
Reference Librarian
Cornell Law School Law Library
kreisler@law.mail.cornell.edu

Eric Cooper
Reference Librarian & Head of Acquisitions
Cornell Law School Law Library
cooper@law.mail.cornell.edu

Elaine Krikorian
Reference Librarian
Cornell Law School Law Library
krikorian@law.mail.cornell.edu

1:00p-2:00p

1:00p-2:00p

The West Education Network and lawschool.westlaw.com [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

Who should attend: Law librarians, current and perspective TWEN users and IT personnel.

A new and improved TWEN - More flexible and easier to use than ever and again free of charge. TWEN now puts more control in the hands of the professor. Come see a demonstration of new features of The West Education Network and lawschool.westlaw.com like a course calendar, course creation wizard, richer e-mail features and interactive quizzing.

Justin Hummel
Product Manager lawschool.westlaw.com
justin.hummel@westgroup.com
651 687-1138

Joel Friedman
Professor of Law and Director of Technology
Tulane Law School
jfriedman@law.tulane.edu

1:00p-2:00p

LEXIS Virtual Classroom I [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

Who should attend: Professors who are already using the Virtual Classroom or who are interested in having a web course without impacting their school's IT and web resources.

Learn how to take full advantage of the free and easy-to-use LEXIS Virtual Classroom's many features. This session will focus on using the Lesson Builder feature to organize your course materials.

Fran Warren
Product Manager
frances.warren@lexis-nexis.com
937-432-6972

2:30p-3:30p

Supercharging Your Web Site With Databases [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

Your basic web site is in place, but now you feel its time to "kick it up a notch." With a little bit of knowledge about Microsoft Access, Microsoft Frontpage, and HTML, you can place dynamic database information on the World Wide Web.

Who Should Attend: IT Professionals, Administrators, and Webmasters. Level: Intermediate

Trotter Hardy [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Professor of Law
William and Mary School of Law
thardy@wm.edu (757) 221-3826

Yolanda Jones
Assistant Director for Computer and Information Services
Villanova University School of Law Library
yjones@law.villanova.edu
(610) 519-7235

PDAs in the Legal Classroom [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

Who should attend: PDA users, teaching professors, and those interested in new developments in technology.

Professor Gregory Ogden and Phillip Bohl will present their experiences with PDA technology in the law school classroom. In cooperation with Palm, Inc. and other Palm OS peripheral and software vendors, a section of Professional Responsibility was adapted to examine the benefits and challenges tied to actively using and supporting PDAs in a law school classroom. Ogden and Bohl will present their findings with particular attention to the goals of the project vs. what actually happened.

See a brief listing of project goals and components at: http://law.pepperdine.edu/resource/palmproject2000/

Attend this session to learn if an inexpensive PDA can be incorporated meaningfully into your curriculum and/or your institution. Also, briefly, how to participate in fun projects with top manufacturers.

Phillip C. Bohl [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Associate Director for Computer Services
Pepperdine Law Library
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, California 90263
phillip.bohl@pepperdine.edu
310.456.4813

Gregory L. Ogden
Professor of Law
Pepperdine School of Law
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, California 90263
gregory.ogden@pepperdine.edu
310.456.4671

2:30p-3:30p

Cross Media, Cross-Base Casebooks [BACK TO AGENDA]
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Who should attend: teaching professors and those interested in new developments in technology.

Professor Markell, will participate with West Group representatives from the Legal Edcucation Group, Westlaw Academic, and Westlaw Database Development in explaining how the book looks and works. Technology allows diversity in substance and form. So West Group is experimenting with new models of law school materials that combine the widest collection of published casebooks with the richest collection of on-line teaching resources. Please attend this session to see the development version of a new "casebook" available in different forms in the 2000-01 academic year. In one form the book will reside on TWEN and will be linked to and supported by a new model, statutory database in Westlaw. The content of the book is selectable and sortable by the teacher, who can create her own version. The book will also be published in hardcopy form enriched by on-line access to author and supplemental databases, also linked to and supported by the new Westlaw database.

Bruce Markell
Professor of Law
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Bmarkell@nevada.edu
702 895-2437

Also participating...
Justin Hummel
Doug Powell
Joel Friedman
Bruce Markell
David Young
Barb Widen
Gerald Johnson
Rick Ness

LEXIS Virtual Classroom II [BACK TO AGENDA]
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Who should attend: Professors who have a Virtual Classroom or who are interested in having a web course without impacting their school's IT and web resources.

Learn how to take full advantage of the free and easy-to-use LEXIS Virtual Classroom's many features. This session will focus on using the Calendar and Gradebook features for assignments, submissions, and feedback.

Fran Warren
Product Manager
frances.warren@lexis-nexis.com
937-432-6972

4:00p-5:00p

Digital Video Production Case Studies [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

Ms. Ramirez has worked on a project requiring digital editing for a Jurisprudence class where they were discussing "Visual Persuasion". She obtained all of the hardware and software for the student projects including an Apple G3, digital cameras and Final Cut Pro. She will share her experiences and demonstrate some basic digital video editing processes as well as lead a discussion on the pitfalls of getting into the video production business in law schools.

Mr. Hoffenberg has worked with Adobe Premiere on several digital video productions. He will demo the use of Premiere and offer a series of tips and caveats for the beginning digital video producer.

Maritza Ramirez
Law Technology Manager
(203) 287 3321
maritza.ramirez@quinnipiac.edu

Ian Hoffenberg
Video Specialist - Distance Learning
Chicago-Kent College of Law
312-906-5341
ihoffenb@kentlaw.edu

Teaching Law with Online Simulations [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

One of difficulties with computer-assisted instruction and web-based training (WBT) systems is that they often resemble lectures or texts, turned into computer-delivered form. This can mean that WBT materials and exercises become static, uninteresting, and pedagogically questionable. The majority of existing systems emphasise top-down learning approaches, which have been shown to be of limited value. With this in mind, the University of Melbourne Law School (Australia) began working on a WBT shell that would facilitate the creation of contextualised, bottom-up learning in legal environments, through role-play and simulations. This shell, called BriefCase, allows for the fast, cheap, and easy creation of legal simulation-based exercises, delivered over the web using a database backend to power the system. Using a set of open-source tools (html, MySQL, XML) we have created a WBT system that allows educators (not programmers) to build legal role-playing exercises, and deliver them to students to enhance learning.

This paper will be of primary interest to law professors looking for a different type of web-deliverable pedagogy. It will also be of interest to law school IT professionals interested in how one builds database-centric, web-delivered systems using open source tools.

Dr. Dan Hunter
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Phone (215) 573-7154
Fax (215) 573-2006
hunterd@wharton.upenn.edu

The Multimedia, Interactive Frontier in Bar Review, and a New Interactive Courtroom CD ROM from PLI [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

PLI announces its multimedia, interactive Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) course (on CD Rom and Internet), featuring streaming video, sophisticated questions diagnostics and more. Also, the latest title in the award-winning Interactive Courtroom series: Discovery. These are "plug and play" products, and so no particular level of expertise beyond basic familiarity with computers and multimedia is expected.

Mark Dighton
Director of Law School Relations
Practising Law Institute (PLI)
mdighton@pli.edu
(212) 824-5841

Introduction to Blackboard 5 [BACK TO AGENDA]
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Who should attend: Professors, IT personnel and webmasters who are interested in online course management systems.

Blackboard Inc. will demonstrate its newly announced Blackboard 5 e-Learning software platform. Blackboard 5 enables higher education institutions to provide students, faculty, staff & alumni with a full slate of online products and services -- including an extensive campus portal -- in one scalable package.

Chuck Brodsky
Regional Sales Manager
Blackboard Inc.
cbrodsky@blackboard.com
202-463-4860

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

Can concepts such as reengineering that were developed in industry and commerce be helpful in understanding the challenges now facing legal education, or is the current media buzz surrounding e-business just more hype that obscures more than it illucidates? I will argue that not only can they be helpful, they may be inescapable if law schools are to retain their current autonomy and public purpose in the face of increasing pressures from proprietary competitors.

While the core objectives of legal education may be rooted in the pursuit of justice and the perservation of professional autonomy, the actual administration and delivery of legal education is a process which might benefit from a healthy dose of "reengineering" in the same manner that many sectors of the economy are being transformed today. Reengineering requires a focus on improving the quality of the relationship between the institution and its stakeholder constituiencies and a willingess to abandon the security of existing institutional categories and processes.

Advances in information technology are creating new opportunities to distribute information about law to the public, to the bar and to law students. In order to deliver the greatest possible improvement in understanding the law, legal educators need to examine critically what competence in knowledge of law and legal reasoning consists of, how such competence could be imparted most efficiently using technologies available today, and how responsibilities and resources within law schools may have to be reallocated and redefined. Instead of focusing on the external features of the present system, such as the Socratic method, the standard JD curriculum or tenure for faculty members, educators need to focus on how the core missions of law schools can be achieved more effectively in light of new technology.

Profiling and data warehousing is a good example of a technology that was developed for commercial electronic commerce applications, but that might help transform legal education. If law students increasingly interact with faculty and access their assigned course materials online, then those online interactions can be used to build datawarehouses describing law student learning behaviors. By profiling those behaviors, law schools can develop objective profiles of student learning and correlate those profiles with different models of competence: in law school exams, in bar exams, in post-law school employment. If the information gathered from such profiling were used to refine the development of course content, not only could law student learning could be more effective, but the continuing education of attorneys and public knowledge of law could likewise be improved. If law schools collaborate on building databases and sharing their analyses of that data, all those wishing to learn the law might be aided. Linking the actual identity of students with the information contained in profiles raises serious privacy issues that would have to be scrutinized carefully by legal educators. If electronic course content and the profiles of students using that content are developed by for-profit ventures, however, it is unclear whether student privacy rights would be defended or the public interest in greater knowledge of law would be pursued vigorously.

The article on which Nicolas Terry's speech was based, Bricks plus Bytes: How ‘Click-and-Brick’ Will Define Legal Education Space, (forthcoming 46(1) Villanova Law Review, Spring 2001) is now available from SSRN.

Jane Kaufman Winn [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Associate Professor
Southern Methodist University School of Law
Dallas TX 75275-0116
jwinn@mail.smu.edu
www.smu.edu/~jwinn
www.virtual-langdell.com

Nicolas P. Terry [PDF OF ARTICLE]
Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Health Law Studies
Saint Louis University
School of Law
3700 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO. 63108
314-977-3998
314-977-3332
terry@slu.edu
http://law.slu.edu/nicolasterry

10:30a-11:30a

WHAT IS GEEKFEST? A mini-conference within a conference. Of geeks, by geeks and for geeks - this is a series of sessions organized by some of the brightest lights (or dimmest bulbs?) from our community covering topics that cannot be neatly packaged into one hour bytes. Dive into Linux, PHP, MySQL and database-powered web applications. Formal flannel required, Jolt Cola will be provided.

GEEKFEST 2000 - The Beauty of Open Source and Linux [BACK TO AGENDA]
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Open Source is a phenomenon sweeping the software industry. Led by the success of Linux as a viable alternative to close-source server OS's such from Microsoft and Sun, Linux delivers nearly unmatched high reliability and security for free. This sessions sets the tone for the sessions to follow by talking about Linux's capabilities and qualities. There will be lots of demos and tech-talk, so come prepared to take a lot of notes.

Tom Bruce
Legal Information Institute
Cornell University
School of Law
trb2@cornell.edu

John Heywood
American University
School of Law
heywood@american.edu

Tom Ryan
Rutgers University-Camden
School of Law
tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu

Waiting for Wireless? [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

If your organization has been thinking about using wireless networks to extend your wired network or provide a completely new resource, take this opportunity to find out why other law schools have chosen this technology
and how they are using it. Learn the basics of how wireless networking works and what you should consider when evaluating products as well as keeping an eye to the future. The session will cover current and emerging
wireless technology and provide two case studies, one of a law school using standardized technology and one that is using proprietary wireless technology. Each case study will describe reasons for product selection, implementation issues, and other user, technology, and infrastructure issues that arose.

Gregory L. Ivy [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Associate Director
Underwood Law Library
Southern Methodist University School of Law
6550 Hillcrest Road
Dallas, TX 75275
phone - 214-768-1829
fax - 214-768-4330
e-mail - givy@mail.smu.edu

Gary Moore [POWERPOINT SLIDE]
Director of Information Systems
Hofstra University School of Law
121 Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11549
phone - 516-463-6067
fax - 516-463-6338
email - lawgpm@hofstra.edu

David P. Whelan
Director, Legal Technology Resource Center
American Bar Association
750 N. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
phone - 312-988-5026
fax - 312-988-5037
email - wheland@staff.abanet.org

LegalEducation.com- A Case Study of Web-based Legal Education [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

Professor Geist will review the lessons learned from his E-commerce Law Workshop, a Winter 2000 course that used the Internet to broadcast to participants from around the world in real time using a combination of Webcasting, real time chat, and streaming presentation software. The presentation will be primarily non-technical, focusing instead on the potential and limitations of using the Web to deliver legal education

Professor Byrnes is in the unique position of having created, and taught in, a totally on-line LLM program that has received ABA acquiescence. He will discuss the structure of the course as well as his experiences with its initiation and operation.

Professor Michael Geist [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
University of Ottawa
Faculty of Law
mgeist@uottawa.ca
613-562-5800 x3319

William Byrnes
Associate Professor of Law
williambyrnes@hotmail.com

The lexis.com Research System [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

Who should attend: Anyone interested in effectively using the lexis.comsm research system.

The completely integrated lexis.com research system provides unprecedented ease in finding, analyzing, and validating your research. Learn how LEXIS® Search Advisor, Case Summaries and Core Concepts, and Shepard's® work together to streamline the research process and produce accurate, on-point results.

Paula Sicard
Account Executive
paula.sicard@lexis-nexis.com
603-623-0544

Internet Legal Research with LoisLaw [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

LoisLaw is a serious competitor in the Internet legal research business. With special deals for law schools and a growing collection of content for the lawyer and law student, LoisLaw has a lot to offer. Find out the latest from the folks who bring you LoisLaw.

Representatives from LoisLaw

1:00p-2:00p

As more people turn to the web for legal research, Westlaw is aggressively upgrading its web capabilities, embedding web functionality into its proprietary software, and building westlaw.com into the ultimate legal research web site, with unparalleled search, display, and customization features. Find out what's coming next.

Shelly Albaum
Director of Westlaw Product Development
shellly.albaum@westgroup.com
651- 687 -7737

Exams on Computers [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

ExamSoft Worldwide develops and license's academic examination software solutions worldwide. Their Software solutions range from the traditional final examination to rich content secure Internet examinations for distance learning Programs. The software is unique as it provides complete security during exams for both student owned laptops and school owned computers. Examsoft, Inc. will demonstrate the newest features of their powerful and secure exam-taking software and offer tips and advice for successful implementation of "exams on computers" programs in legal education.

Adam Wasserman, Esq.
Managing Director
ExamSoft Worldwide Inc.
awas@examsoft.com
888-570-8889

Rosanna Cavallaro
Professor of Law
Suffolk University School of Law

Norm Garland
Professor of Law
Southwestern University School of Law

Ellen Suni
Professor of Law
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
SuniE@umkc.edu

Markus Dubber
Professor of Law
SUNY-Buffalo School of Law

Online Law: Peeling the Layers [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

Who should attend: faculty members thinking about running online courses and IT personnel who may be involved with providing support.

This session will look at the various layers involved in running a law course online. Two extreme scenarios will be canvassed, one where there is minimal IT support available and one where there is. Both are from my experiences as an IT staff and as a law academic at two Australian law schools. The IT competence of legal academics range widely from those who cannot even type to those who are programmers. Where there is a general law school policy to make courses available online, the challenge is to make the policy workable for all members of staff without draining all available resources, including time. No-one doubts that technology is a wonderful teaching and learning tool, but the practical realities are often overlooked in the name of progress. This paper will examine what exactly is involved in developing law courses online, ranging from the mere provision of information to the use of interactive tools such as threaded messaging systems and examination systems. The resource implications on faculty and tech support staff for each of these layers will also be discussed.

Yee Fen Lim [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Lecturer in Law
Department of Law
Macquarie University
North Ryde NSW 2109
Tel: +612 9850 7093
Fax: +612 9850 7686
yee.lim@mq.edu.au

1:00p-2:00p

GEEKFEST 2000 - Apache Architecture: Installation and Configuration [BACK TO AGENDA]
[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

The survey by Netcraft shows that Apache is today more widely used than all other web servers combined. Come see a very technical overview of installing and configuring the Apache web server to power your institution's websites.

John Heywood
American University
School of Law
heywood@american.edu

2:30p-3:30p

Tackling the Technophobes & Legal-XML [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

Part I
In any environment, there is a group of people that is either opposed to the imposition of technology, or frightened or frustrated by their encounters with technology. In the legal community, these people are judges; in academia, many are senior faculty members. While it is easy and fun to ridicule them as Luddites, it is important to address their concerns and acknowledge that sometimes, technology is not the solution. This address, by a writer who was trained on manual typewriters and who was handed the technology beat at the American Lawyer magazine because no one else cared about technology, will suggest ways that tech enthusiasts and technophobes can coexist peacefully and even profitably.

Part II
he Legal XML group is a volunteer organization which through a special agreement contracts with the Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.. Georgia State University College of Law houses and has incubated Legal XML as part of its Electronic Court Filing Project, which is fully funded by Georgia's Courts Automation Commission.

The mission of Legal XML is to develop open, non-proprietary technical standards for legal documents and related applications. As the name suggests, Legal XML bases its standards on eXtensible Markup Language ("XML"), a World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C") standard. XML and related W3C standards have gained widespread industry acceptance as a "smart" web technologies since early 1998 when the W3C recommended XML 1.0 as a standard. Legal XML is currently the only group in the legal community that is providing the development of such a standard.

A substantial number of Legal XML members, including the majority of those who organized the initial Organizing Committee meeting attended the Dixon Conference 2000 on E-filing and E-Commerce on February 17th and 18th in Orlando Florida. That conference clearly demonstrated the interest of the legal community as a whole and the court community, both judicial and clerk's office, in particular, in the ongoing development of open, non-proprietary technical standards for legal documents. However, a debate arose over the proposed Legal XML intellectual property policy.

In particular, some members have raised questions about the appropriateness of a "copyleft" policy where government contributed intellectual property to a standards effort, the feeling being that this intellectual property should be in the "public domain." The question then arises whether the group can create a General Public License (GPL) (a license granted by a copyright or patent holder to the public to use, copy, and distribute either documentation or software and documentation without fee or royalty and without warranty, provided that the copyright and the license terms are perpetuated in copies or derivative works).

Additionally, a GPL generally requires the GPL to be perpetuated in new copies or derivatives. Thus, granting a GPL is similar to publishing into the public domain, except that the owner retains certain rights in the work. The retained rights are generally kept to preserve the openness of the work. Although the validity of a GPL has never been challenged in court,41 there are good arguments based on analogous shrinkwrap and shareware case law that suggest a GPL would be enforceable. Whether or not a GPL would be enforceable, it would be risky to violate the terms of a GPL both because of the threat of litigation and because of the risk of damaged goodwill.

Wendy Leibowitz
Technology Columnist
Pro2Net
1140--23rd St. NW
Washington, DC 20037
wendytech@justice.com or wendyl@pro2net.com
202-293-1693

Tom O'Connor
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Legal Division
1730 Minor Ave. Suite 1900
Seattle, WA 98101
206.664.7827
tomo@pro2net.com

Beyond Brochureware for Law School Websites [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

Can anybody imagine a Law School without a website anymore? But what do Law Schools really use their websites for? What possibilities of support for research, publication and teaching are there? What are the technical and organizational problems? What could be the solutions?

This session will try to examine the role of websites in a changing environment of legal information needs and legal publishing and in a competitive 'market' with new players.

Sieglinde Schreiner-Linford [HTML PRESENTATION]
Emile Noël Fellow
Harvard Law School
617-496-4283
schreine@law.harvard.edu

Anytime, Anywhere with Anyone Practice of Law: Practicing in the New Millennium [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

Who should attend: Those attendees who are interested in the lastet technical advances for law practictioners.

Learn West's vision of the law practice in this new millennium, leveraging the latest in technology and harnessing the power of the Internet.

Loren D. Jones
Director of WestWorks Product Development
Loren.jones@westgroup.com
651 687-8364

GEEKFEST 2000 - MySQL and ODBC [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon and many different client programs and libraries. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and ease of use. The two Toms will show you some code and talk about MySQL's appropriateness to task for many web-based database projects.

Tom Bruce
Legal Information Institute
Cornell University
School of Law
trb2@cornell.edu

Tom Ryan
Rutgers University-Camden
School of Law
tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu

2:30p-3:30p

The Justice Web Collaboratory [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

The Justice Web Collaboratory is a working partnership formed by Chicago-Kent College of Law and the National Center for State Courts to use the tools of the World Wide Web to create a laboratory for collaboration aimed exclusively at U.S. judges and their close support organizations. The Justice Web Collaboratory will be organized as a communications and publications and education web site. The Collaboratory will use the best available Web tools for publishing, conferencing, email, web meetings and distance learning to "to influence the top decision makers about those improvements to the judicial system that can come from incorporating advanced technology into the work of judges themselves in their chambers and on the bench."

Todd Pedwell [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Chicago-Kent College of Law
tpedwell@kentlaw.edu

4:00p-5:00p

XML Again -- a Schema or a Scheme? [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

The development of the XML family of standards continues apace. W3C seems to issue a new recommendation about every week or so, and keeping up is hard to do. This session will consist of two parts: 1) a quick review of the year's activity on the W3C front with pointers on finding the right stuff, and 2) an overview of the year's activity in the LegalXML group, with insightful comments and suggestions.

Those attending this session will learn which major software giant headquartered in Redmond, WA has managed to be singled out for achieving both the best and the worst standards implementation at the same time (and in almost the same product). Also, more updates on the updates . . . .

Nick Finke
University of Cincinnati School of Law
Nick.Finke@Law.UC.Edu

Winchel "Todd" Vincent, III [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Attorney and Technical Researcher
Georgia State University College of Law
Center for Digital Commerce
Office Phone: (404) 651-4297
Fax: (404) 651-2092
Email: Winchel@mindspring.com

Who are we, how did we get here, and where are we going? IT Career Path in Law Schools [BACK]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

Digital Archiving & Project Nuremberg [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

Mr. MacDonald is the database programmer, and web search engine programmer, and web designer for the Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project The database is an MS ACCESS 97 database with several extensive modules in VBA and the web page scripting is all in PHP using an ODBC driver to connect to the database. There are 14 different ways to search the database on the web and we will have web deliverable and readable images of every page of the trials. They are starting off with just the Medical Trials (case and evidence documents of doctors doing criminal things to prisoners) with photos of same. This will consist of about 14,000 pages of documents and a couple hundred photos. They have over 1 millions pages of Nuremberg Trials documents filling over 500 boxes.

Mr. Joergensen has been doing work on data conversion and digital archiving, both with print materials and with native electronic material. He will discuss the the role of digital archives, why and when to create them (and often more important, why and when NOT to create them), the respective merits of data conversion methods, and the relative costs of the different methods.

Peter MacDonald [WEBSITE]
User Support Specialist
Harvard Law School Library
(617) 495-3683
(617) 496-4409 (fax)
pmacdon@law.harvard.edu
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library

John P. Joergensen [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Reference Librarian
Rutgers University Law School - Camden
5th & Penn Streets
Camden, NJ 08102
e-mail: jjoerg@crab.rutgers.edu
Phone: (856) 225-6460

4:00p-5:00p

Who should attend: Professors who have a Virtual Classroom or who are interested in having a web course without impacting their school's IT and web resources.

Professor McGaugh will cover (1) issues to consider in creating a supplemental classroom for a skills course, (2) using the supplemental classroom to receive and comment on student drafts, (3) using the supplemental classroom as a safe haven for students to answer questions and receive grades, and (4) encouraging students to use a supplemental classroom without creating resistance. She will show her WCB sites for an upper-level Criminal Practice Skills course and for first-year research, analysis, and writing course. She'll discuss her different experiences in using the course with upper-level students and first-year students.

Prof. Tracy L. McGaugh [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Texas Tech School of Law
806-742-3548
xwtlm@ttacs.ttu.edu

4:00p-5:00p

Making Your Class Better with The West Education Network [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

Who should attend: teaching professors

Professor Joseph will demonstrate how he uses TWEN to enhance the classroom experience for first year and upper level day and evening class students in Torts and Criminal Procedure.

Paul Joseph
Associate Dean and Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University Center for the Study of Law
josephp@nsu.law.nova.edu
954 262-6171

GEEKFEST 2000 - CGI/PERL [BACK TO AGENDA]
[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

Code and talk. 'nuff said. Knowledge of elementary Perl assumed.

Tom Bruce
Legal Information Institute
Cornell University
School of Law
trb2@cornell.edu

Tom Ryan
Rutgers University-Camden
School of Law
tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu

8:30a-9:30a (during breakfast)

CS-SIS Meeting (Room 210) [BACK TO AGENDA]

Attention CS SIS! Members of the Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Assocation of Law Libraries are invited to join us in Room 210 for Saturday's HOT breakfast. It has become a yearly tradition for us to have an informal meeting at the CALI conference. So, pile on the food and shuttle your plates over to Room 210. See y'all there!

Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law
University of Chicago Law School
D'Angelo Law Library
1121 East 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.
Phone: 1-773-702-9612
Fax: 1-773-702-2889
E-mail: llou@midway.uchicago.edu
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/law-lists

9:30a-10:30a

The Palm digital organizer makes personal critical information instantly available in a device not much bigger than a pack of cards. It lets you carry your datebook, address book, a to-do list and email and also synchronize that information back to your desktop computer. The Palm OS market has now expanded to include a huge number of applications and devices including ebooks, document readers, web browsing, wireless communications, travel guides, and databases. The panelists (all enthusiastic Palm owners) will discuss shopping, essential software, web sites, and tips and tricks for getting the most of out of your Palm OS organizer.

Grace Lee [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Electronic Services Librarian
Mendik Library
New York Law School
57 Worth St., NY NY 10013
212-431-2858
glee@nyls.edu

Anna Williams Shavers
NEW EMAIL: ashavers@unl.edu
Professor of Law
215 Law College
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
http://www.unl.edu/ashavers/aws.htm
Office: (402) 472-2194
Fax: (402) 472-5185

Trotter Hardy
Professor of Law
William and Mary School of Law
thardy@wm.edu (757) 221-3826

Marjorie A. McDiarmid
Professor of Law
College of Law
West Virginia University
University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Telephone: 304-293-6821
Fax: 304-293-6891
mcdiarm@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

9:30a-10:30a

Distributing the Load: Empowering Faculty to Maintain Web-based Content [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

Coordinating web-based content with traditional paper-based information has presented many administrative challenges, including staffing, training, and issues of timeliness and currency. Whereas paper-based materials were expected to be updated infrequently, information on the web is expected to be up-to-the-minute. At the University of Wisconsin Law School, we have developed a model that permits individual staff and faculty members to update critical, time-sensitive sections of the Law School's web site to ensure the accuracy of the content. Our system also reduces the workload of support staff and technical staff. This presentation discusses both the technical and administrative methods we employed to enable this system.

TARGET AUDIENCE: Technology staff, web masters, administrators.

Jim Loter [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Director of Technology
University of Wisconsin
975 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706
jim@law.wisc.edu
608-265-4272
608-262-5485

9:30a-10:30a

The Evolution of Law School IT Structures [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

Information technology has become an increasingly important part of the law school organization. What for many schools started as a single technically savvy librarian has grown in some cases to departments with over a dozen IT professionals. The organizational structures of information technology departments within law schools are extremely diverse. While some law schools have the staffing to handle all of their technical needs on their own, others are heavily dependant upon their respective universities IT departments. The reporting structures can be quite different as well. At some schools, IT staffing falls under the umbrella of the library, while at others, it falls under the law schools administration.

I will begin by presenting the results of a survey I conducted to assess the current state of law school IT structures and how they got that way. I will explore how these structures are often reflective of the relationships between the law school, law library, and university IT. I will then open up the floor for discussion.

Adam Gutterman [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Senior IT Liaison
William and Mary Law School
axgutt@wm.edu

9:30a-10:30a

9:30a-10:30a

Geekfest 2000 - Developing Web Applications with ColdFusion [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

Who should attend: Web application developers, database developers, IT directors and anyone interested in harnessing the power of Internet technology that drives e-commerce applications to handle dynamic information publishing.

ColdFusion provides a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment that allows businesses (including law schools) to quickly and easily build web applications to deliver dynamic content and interactive web sites. ColdFusion applications use the interface familiar to all users - the browser - to access and manage databases as well as produce and publish dynamic web pages. This session will provide an overview of the ColdFusion development environment. We will discuss different applications developed using ColdFusion and how this environment could be used to build an integrated information system in law schools. An introduction to the server-side CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) will be provided and we will build a simple application using HTML and CFML.

Technical Level: Intermediate

Mohyeddin Abdulaziz [OUTLINE]
Director of Information Technology
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
P.O. Box 210176
Tucson, AZ 85721-0176
Phone: (520) 621-3053
Fax: (520) 621-9140

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

If you are looking for some simple self-maintenance tips to keep your PC working in peak condition, wondering how to prolong to the life of your laptop battery power, aching to get off some of those listservs you subscribed to long ago, afraid to open attachments even if they are from your friends, wondering if your school really needs a digital camera, tired of carrying books on your trips but still want reading material, wishing you could access files from your office at home or feeling like you have that one computer question that you are embarrassed to ask--- then this is the session for you. This is a fast-paced session that will provide at least 60 tips designed to make the use of technology in law schools easier.

Anna Williams Shavers
NEW EMAIL: ashavers@unl.edu
Professor of Law
215 Law College
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
http://www.unl.edu/ashavers/aws.htm
Office: (402) 472-2194
Fax: (402) 472-5185

Trotter Hardy
Professor of Law
William and Mary School of Law
thardy@wm.edu (757) 221-3826

Grace Lee
Electronic Services Librarian
Mendik Library
New York Law School
57 Worth St., NY NY 10013
212-431-2858
glee@nyls.edu

Brian Donnelly
Director of Instructional Services and Lecturer in Law
Columbia Law School
donnelly@law.columbia.edu

Comparing Web Course Management Systems [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

This session is designed primarily for law faculty who are using or considering the use of course management software in their courses. No technological expertise or experience is required. There will be a general overview of some of the merits and pitfalls of using course mangement software in the law school setting. The session will also compare some particular course management software now being used in law schools, including Lexis Virtual Classroom, The West Education Newtwork, Web Course in a Box, Web CT, and Blackboard. Issues such as features, ease of use, navigation, speed, flexibility, and system/browser requirements will be compared.

Susanna Fischer [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Assistant Professor
Columbus School of Law
The Catholic University of America
202-319-5568
fischer@law.edu

11:00a-12:00p

Application Service Providers [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

Make More Money! Amaze Your Friends! Attract Non-abhorrent Members of the opposite (or non-opposite) SEX! Yes FRIENDS, all this is possible with SilverStream, the J2EE (that's Java folks, yes, good 'ol open source hi-octane JAVA and version 2 to boot!) Quickly and easily build WEB PAGES, Java APPLETS, or even real live APPLICATIONS all using the same relational database INFORMATION you are using TODAY in your organization. Need a Web-based interface to your course registration database? Do you desire an INTRANET for your school? Need to do exams and even GRADE THEM over the Internet? Confused by people who pronounce "Gnu" as "Gu-new" and refer to mythical places like /dev/null in daily conversation? Then this session is for YOU!!!

[The speaker will also briefly give an overview of application servers, how they are deployed, database integration with HTML and Java applications, servlets, JSP, Linux, NT, Dreamweaver, Portals, B2B, B2C, and B2G (Bruce to Geek) among other topics.]

Will Sadler
Web Developer
Knowles Electronics
will@laser.org

GEEKFEST 2000 - PHP [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good.

John Heywood
American University
School of Law
heywood@american.edu

12:30p-1:30p

Upgrading to W2K [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

This session will offer department administrators and network managers an unflinching look into the W2K upgrade process. Specifically, Pepperdine School of Law's experience starting with a brief background on administration priorities, staffing limitations, and personnel development. The bulk of the session will address the pitfalls and successes of our W2K project though anecdotes and in-depth technical review of both workstation and server environments. The session will emphasize Q&A.

David Dickens [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Academic Computing Support Manager
Pepperdine School of Law Library
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263
Phone: (310) 456-4047
Fax: (310) 456-4836
David.Dickens@pepperdine.edu

12:30p-1:30p

12:30p-1:30p

GEEKFEST 2000 - LDAP and Wrapup [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS UNDER PRODUCTION

X.500 is an overall model for Directory Services in the OSI world. The model encompasses the overall namespace and the protocol for querying and updating it. The protocol is known as "DAP" (Directory Access Protocol). DAP runs over the OSI network protocol stack -- that, combined with its very rich data model and operation set makes it quite "heavyweight". It is rather tough to implement a full-blown DAP client and have it "fit" on smaller computer systems. Thus, the folks at University of Michigan, with help from the ISODE Consortium, designed and developed...

LDAP, or "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol". LDAP is, like X.500, both an information model and a protocol for querying and manipulating it. LDAP's overall data and namesapce model is essentially that of X.500. The major difference is that the LDAP protocol itself is designed to run directly over the TCP/IP stack, and it lacks some of the more esoteric DAP protocol functions.

A major part of X.500 is that it defines a global directory structure. It is essentially a directory web in much the same way that http & html are used to define & implement the gobal hypertext web. Anyone with an X.500 or LDAP client may peruse the global directory just as they can use a web browser to peruse the global Web. Additionally, with the help of web<->X.500 gateways, you can use your favorite web browser to peruse both!

Ken will discuss the use of LDAP in an Alumnii Database project at Duke.

All of the Geeks will be in attendance for a final wrapup of Geekfest. The last of the Jolt will be consumed and spontaneous acts of croquet may break out.

Kenneth J. Hirsh [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Duke University School of Law
ken@law.duke.edu
(919) 613-7155

Video and Voice over the Net [BACK TO AGENDA]

[Session Video (RealVideo 7.0 format)]

This session will be a wide-ranging discussion of the future possibilties of video and voice over the Internet. A guest speaker from Cisco Systems will provide the expert commentary.

Gred Edwards [POWERPOINT SLIDES]
Cisco, Inc.
gedwards@cisco.com

The CALI Conference: The Next 10 Years [BACK TO AGENDA]
SESSION VIDEO ARCHIVE IS NOT AVAILABLE

It's the last session track of the first 10 years of the CALI Conference. Stop by this session to brainstorm ideas for the next decade of conferences. Here are some questions to consider...

• Should we EXPAND the conference such that it grows to 500, 600 or 1000 attendees?
• Should we SHRINK the conference (how?) so that it represents a core group of law school IT folks?
• Should we hold 2, 3 or 4 mini-conferences every year in different parts of the country?
• Is the conference "too techie", "not techie enough"?
• Should there be more training-like sessions or workshops like all day classes that train the attendees in a particular technology like Linux, ASP, PHP, Perl, Webmastering, etc.?
• Should we have 2-3 conferences over the summer, one for techies, one for faculty doing computer-mediated instruction and one for administrators on strategy?

Grab a last cup of joe and offer your input.

John Mayer
Executive Director
CALI
312-906-5307
jmayer@cali.org