THURSDAY - JUNE 19, 2003

Thursday - June 19 - 9:00-10:15a / Bryan Center (NOT IN THE LAW SCHOOL - SEE MAP) | webcast | | [TOP]

Plenary:
Audience:
Technical Level:

Ms. Futhey is the Chief Information Officer and Vice-President for Information Technology at Duke University and previously held
similar responsibiities at Carnegie-Mellon. She will provide some high-altitude perspective on the dramatic changes that have
occurred (and are occurring) in higher education academic computing.

Tracy Futhey
Chief Information Officer and Vice-President for Information Technology
Duke University
919-684-5300
futhey@duke.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 3037 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
BEHIND THE SCENES AT CALI

Are you unfamiliar with what CALI is all about? Do you want to know more about CALI’s production environment for creating large numbers of high-quality computer- based legal education tutorials? Would you like a personal guided tour of some of the lesser-known features and functions of CALI’s flapship authoring environment? Would you like to know what kind of projects CALI is working on for the near (and far) future?

Well, then, that’s what this session is all about. If you are an CALI veteran - author, CEB-er, etc., then you should avail yourself of the other fine sessions in this time
slot. If NOT, stop on by.

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

Thursday - June 19 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 3043 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
Why Legal Education Must Adopt e-Learning
Audience: Law school deans, law school professors, IT directors, law library directors
Technical Level: Intermediate

Is your law school prepared to educate students that know more about technology than you do? Have you begun to investigate new ways of presenting information? Do you know what e-Learning is about? If the answer to any of these questions is “no,” then irrelevance will threaten your law school sooner than you think. In this unconventional session, Kevin Dames, the Resident Librarian at Georgetown University Law Center, presents his research findings about e-Learning, the role it plays in legal education, how it relates to the practice of law, and why even the best law schools are failing their pedagogical mission if they do not soon find innovative ways to incorporate e-Learning into their curriculum. Dames will discuss some of the most innovative uses of technology in both academia and practice, and will offer strategies that law schools can implement immediately in order to maintain or improve their competitive advantage.

K. Matthew Dames
Resident Librarian
Georgetown University Law Center
(202) 662-9153
kmd32@law.georgetown.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 3041 | webcast | | [TOP]
SPAM: What it is and what to do about it
Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

SPAM threatens to overwhelm e-mail systems and ISPs throughout the Internet. According to some estimates, the average e-mail user received 2,200 spam messages last year. Spam is not simply an individual annoyance. By absorbing vast amounts of bandwidth and storage capacity, spam threatens to make e-mail unusable at both network and institutional levels.

This session will offer a relatively inclusive definition of spam and will suggest why spam is an enormous and growing problem. We will go on to review the different tools available to systems administrators and users at a conceptual level (black/white lists, Vipul's razor, Bayesean filtering). We then go on to talk about the suite of software tools available that begin to deal with this problem

Marc Eichen
Director
Suffolk University Law School
617-573-8479
marc.eichen@suffolk.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 4045 [TOP]
Westlaw Litigator
Audience:
Technical Level:

Westlaw Litigator gives you a central repository for content such as public records, dockets, briefs, verdicts, local court rules, expert profiles and jury instructions. With Westlaw Ligitator, you can find that information all from one location within Westlaw. It's a faster, easier way to find and analyze legal data.

Jim Cahoy
West Product Developer
west, a thomson company
651-687-1777
jim.cahoy@thomson.com

Thursday - June 19 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 4048 [TOP]
LexisNexis Web Courses: Streamline the Learning Process while Managing Your Program
Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

This presentation will focus on the pedagogical and practical advantages of the LexisNexis Web Course in teaching legal writing and managing a legal writing program. The presentation will discuss use of a Web Course to facilitate two interconnected goals: increased accessability to students and consistent management of faculty. We will review the concepts through an actual legal writing Web Course and focus on the Web Course properties most helpful to teaching and program management, such as Discussion Boards, Groups, Course Information and Documents, the Online Gradebook, and other Communications functions and settings.

Catherine Ross Dunham
Director, Legal Research and Writing Program and Assistant Professor of Law
Campbell University School of Law
910-893-1725
dunham@webster.campbell.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 4047 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
WHAT IS AN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIST AND WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE ONE
Audience:
Technical Level:

The primary responsibilities of the position are to advise and assist faculty in the best use of instructional technology, enhance instruction and create new learning environments. An Instructional Technologists makes certain all of the elements required for instruction are present at appropriate levels, ensuring that learning is student-oriented. In addition, works with media staff in the operation of campus broadcast facilities and equipment for distance learning programs including provide computer training in a facilitated or one-on-one environment to staff, students and administration. This type of position supports each faculty and staff member by explaining the intricacies of the technology and working with you (the subject matter expert) to create a systematic technical based work environment.

Patricia Baia
Instructional Tech.
Albany Law School
518-445-3301
pbaia@mail.als.edu

John Sowder, Instructional Technologist
Ave Maria School of Law
734-827-8026
jsowder@avemarialaw.edu

Brent L. Johnson
Instructional Technology Librarian
Washburn Law Library
785-231-1010 X 1778
brent.johnson@washburn.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 3037 | webcast | | [TOP]
Teaching GameBoy-ers: PowerPoint, CALI lessons, Excel, and developing synergies with Research
Audience: Faculty
Technical Level: Low

Students enter come to class with attention spans shaped by GameBoy and with their expectations as an audience molded by PowerPoint bullet lists. The faculty come to class with a pressure to publish and receive positive student feedback but with hardly any experience designing games. The clash of styles can be awesome. The speakers will discuss how PowerPoint (Eric
Gouvin), CALI lessons, and Excel (Nicholas Georgakopoulos) have helped.

Nicholas Georgakopoulos (homepage)
Professor of Law and John S. Grimes Fellow
Indiana Univ. Sch. of Law - Indianapolis
317-274-1825
ngeorgak@iupui.edu

Eric J. Gouvin
Professor of Law
Western New England College School of Law
413-782-1431
egouvin@llama.lnet.wnec.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 3043 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
THE ALLIANCE OF IT AND LAW LIBRARIES/Joint Projects of Librarians & IT
Audience:
Technical Level:

This session covers two approaches to librarian and IT alliances: 1. a coordinated media-based system for communicating technology information and 2. shifting from all technology being supported by the library to support from a law school technology group.

Tim Kendall and Patti Monk will talk about joint projects: restricting some computers to only OPAC (library catalog)usage, AV cooperation and new AV hire with editing experience, wireless in the library (and elsewhere?), Endeavor library system upgrade to 2001.2, and XP upgrade (the early converts, the resisters). They will also touch on working with campus IT on urls incorporating account numbers, using EZPROXY for off campus access to databases, and more database statistics.

Linda Tashbook and Jamie Butler, from the University of Pittsburgh, will demonstrate their informative and faculty-friendly system for instructing faculty in the use of law school software, classroom computing and media equipment, information security, and more.

Tim Kendall
Computer Services Co-coordinator
OCU School of Law Library
405-521-5803
tkendall@okcu.edu

Patti Monk, MLS, JD
Associate Director
OCU School of Law Library
405-521-5344
Pmonk@okcu.edu

Linda Tashbook
Electronic services librarin
university of pittsburgh school of law
412- 648-1303
tashbook@law.pitt.edu

Jamie butler
system administrator
university of pittsburgh school of law
412-648-1349
butler@law.pitt.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 3041 | webcast | | [TOP]
PHYSICAL IT SECURITY POLICIES
Audience:
Technical Level:

Addressing the new and old challenges of physical security in your library, labs, classrooms, and offices will be our focus for this panel discussion. How do we handle the interplay of budget, policies, politics, and physical issues? Panel participants will discuss their own experiences in security planning and implementation. The audience will be encouraged to participate in suggestions and testimonials in a dynamic question and question session.

Jim Velco
Head of Computer Services
The John Marshall Law School
312-427-2737
8velco@jmls.edu

Phillip C. Bohl
Director, Information Services
Associate Director, Law Library
Pepperdine University School of Law
310-506-4813
Phillip.Bohl@pepperdine.edu

Robert A. Brothers
Director of User Services
University of Houston Law Center
Legal Information Technology
713-743-2260
rbrothers@uh.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 3049 | webcast | | [TOP]
COUrTROOM TECHNOLOGIES CASE STUDIES
Audience:
Technical Level:

Case studies on the design and implementation of new high-tech law school courtrooms, combined with a brief demonstration in the recently renovated Duke Moot Courtroom to see the final product in action.

• Discussion topics will include:
• Courtroom technology in law schools
• The common parts to a courtroom technology system
• It’s more then a courtroom, it’s a classroom too
• Do’s and Don’ts of planning and installing a courtroom technology system

Brent L. Johnson
Instructional Technology Librarian
Washburn University Law Library
Topeka, KS 66621
785-231-1010 x 1778
zzbjohns@washburn.edu

Kenneth J. Hirsh
Director of computing services
Duke University School of Law
919- 613-7155
ken@law.duke.edu

Jeff Shaw
Head of Faculty Technology Services
Michigan State University - Detroit College of Law
517- 432-6918
jeff.shaw@law.msu.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 4048 [TOP]
Introduction to LexisNexis Web Courses
Audience:
Technical Level:

See how the resources of LexisNexis and Blackboard combine to create a dynamic online experience for professors and students. Learn how easy it is
to set up and use a Web Course. The focus of this presentation will be on basic activities using Web Courses such as posting documents, adding links
to cases and statutes, and hosting discussion forums. This session will demonstrate the ease of use of LexisNexis Web Courses and show the value of
Web Courses as a management tool.

Stephanie O'Keefe
Account Executive
Lexis-Nexis
919 303 1722
stephanie.okeefe@lexisnexis.com

Thursday - June 19 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 4047 | webcast | | [TOP]
H2O: Building Communities around Ideas
Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

This presentation will describe the H2O project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society in general and the H2O Rotisserie discussion tool specifically. The H2O project is a non profit software development project that develops innovative educational tools designed not only to improve the academic educational experience but to export the best parts of that experience outside of the academy. The Rotisserie is the most successful tool developed by the H2O project: a structured discussion tool that solves many of the problems of using an online discussion system to facilitate productive, meaningful discourse within and beyond the legal academy. The Berkman Center has a long, successful record of using H2O tools to promote productive discussion about pressing legal and social issues.

H2O and The Berkman Center

The H2O project is a non profit software development project hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. The vision of the H2O project is to encourage the growth of a more open, connected set of intellectual communities than those currently in existence through the use of innovative new teaching technologies. In particular, we focus on the ideal of introducing inventive methods of interaction to allow these communities to form in new ways. Rather than segregating users based on which school they happen to attend or, indeed, whether they happen to attend school at all, the system encourages users to interact with one another in focused ways based on the specific ideas they are addressing at the time: users can gather to address the details of a recently passed piece of legislation or the implications of a particular news item, rather around local communities of school or ideology.

The Internet has been built out with special attention and success to schools across the country and around the world. Yet mainstream educational software has progressed little beyond either online workbooks with flat multiple choice drills or an amalgam of chat rooms, static Web pages, and threaded bulletin board messaging made available to students under the umbrella of a given class or school. Classrooms and dormitories are linked to the Net, and those seeking educational applications say: “Now what?” Traditional research educational research projects, likewise, have largely failed to establish network effects and, as one consequence, have not resulted in the integration of helpful new teaching technologies into mainstream usage within school, much less between schools and other intellectual communities. We believe that, with the right structure, the global Net can become indispensable to a variety of teaching environments—and we have tested this belief through a series of pilot projects implemented at Harvard Law School and elsewhere. These projects seek to answer the surprisingly difficult question of how to help teachers, unobtrusively but effectively, inspire and lead their students through the use of networked technologies, fostering online intellectual communities with innovative tools that fundamentally differ from existing educational systems.

Core to the mission of the Berkman Center is the education of not only law students but also the public about technologies that have deep effects on society and about societal laws that have deep effects on technologies. Since its founding, the Berkman Center has experimented with the use of H2O tools extensively within traditional law school courses. We have also sought to encourage the public to educate themselves about and involve themselves with Internet and law issues. To this end, the Berkman Center has hosted a number of online lecture and discussion series freely accessible to the public. These series have addressed a wide range of Internet and law issues, including privacy, the digital divide, Internet name dispute policy, and violence against women on the Internet. The Berkman Center also hosts its Internet Law conference twice a year, through which it educates professionals about the current state of Internet law through both online and in person sessions. And the Berkman Center has actively sought to include the public in Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) deliberations by webcasting and providing online forums for discussions of ICANN meetings.

The Rotisserie

The most ambitious and successful tool developed by the H2O project has been the Rotisserie structured discussion tool. The Rotisserie provides a unique platform for civic discussion that facilitates discourse that is more thoughtful, more democratic, and less balkanized that discussions hosted by traditional threaded messaging systems.

The Rotisserie implements an innovative approach to online discussion that encourages measured, thoughtful discourse in a way that traditional, threaded messaging systems cannot. In contrast to the completely asynchronous, broadcast-to-broadcast mode of existing threaded messaging systems, the Rotisserie adds structure to both the timing and the flow of the discussion. The timing of the discussion is broken into semi-synchronous rounds. Users are allowed to post responses at any time, but their responses are not published to other users until the deadline for the current round passes. Traditional threaded messaging systems include a built in bias for posting quickly, since the users who post first are those who are most likely to be read by the greatest number of participants and therefore the most likely to generate responses. The Rotisserie eliminates this bias, allowing users to take the time to craft their responses thoughtfully rather than competing with other participants to post quickly.

Moreover, this timing structure provides the opportunity for the system to control the flow of the discussion by distributing responses to specific users for further discussion at the end of each round, ensuring that every post is distributed to at least one other user for comment and that each user has exactly one post to which to respond. By controlling the flow of discussion in this way, the Rotisserie democratizes the discussions, performing the same function that a careful seminar teacher does -- making sure everyone gets a chance to participate by encouraging garrulous students to contribute less and shy students to contribute more. Unlike a seminar teacher, the Rotisserie can scale to thousands of users, since it requires no manual intervention to make these assignments.

Lastly, the Rotisserie system includes support for discussion not only within a given community, but also between many different communities at once, allowing, for instance, an Internet law class at Harvard Law School to participate in a discussion about digital rights management with an engineering course at MIT, a local radio show audience that has just listened to a show on the topic, and a public Internet & society discussion forum. This last feature is perhaps the most important feature of the Rotisserie for civic discussion, since it encourages discussion participation based on a specific topic rather than on the community to which the user belongs. Traditional threaded messaging systems often balkanize Internet users into communities of ideology, which function more as support groups for people with similar beliefs than as centers for meaningful discourse. By facilitating discussion between different communities as well as within them, the Rotisserie encourages thoughtful, productive discussions between people who do not share the same central assumptions and ideologies.

Resources

The following links provide more information about the Berkman Center and the H2O project:

H2O Rotisserie
http://h2o.law.harvard.edu

H2O Project
http://h2oproject.law.harvard.edu

Berkman Center Home Page:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu

Berkman Online Lecture and Discussion Series:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/online

Hal Roberts
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School
617 496 8247
hroberts@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 3037 | webcast | | [TOP]
END USERS USE OF CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY
Audience: All
Technical Level: Medium

Law School Technology is maximized when the end users take ownership of its intended use. NCCU School of Law retrofitted two classrooms, which were designed in the early 80s, into high tech smart classrooms. In this session you will hear from Professors who have taken ownership of the available technology and incorporated it into their work.

Greg Clinton
Director, Law School Information Technology
North Carolina Central University School of Law
919-530-7174
gclinton@wpo.nccu.edu

Deborah M. Jefferies
Law Librarian & Associate Professor
North Carolina Central University School of Law
[phone]
[email]

James P. Beckwith, Jr.
Professor
North Carolina Central University School of Law
[phone]
[email]

Fred J. Williams
Associate Professor
North Carolina Central University School of Law
[phone]
[email]

Mary Wright
Professor
North Carolina Central University School of Law
[phone]
[email]

Thursday - June 19 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 3043 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
EXPERIENCING THE VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK
Audience:
Technical Level:

In this session the potential applications encased in virtual reference technology will be discussed. We will share experiences with this technological tool, its inner workings and steps to incorporate it into your library. Nova Southeastern University Law Library and St. Thomas University Law Library, as a consortium, established a virtual reference desk utilizing Convey Systems. Also, Louisiana State University Law Library established a virtual reference desk utilizing Live Assistance. Additionally, the New England Law Library Consortium is conducting a pilot project called library LAWLINE. This virtual reference desk project utilizes 24/7 and involves the participation of 19 law libraries. Additionally, the concept of Artificial Intelligence as a supplement to the Virtual Reference Desk will be discussed. What is next for libraries regarding this emerging technology? The experiences shared in this session promise to be useful in your future plans with these technologies.

Billie Jo Kaufman
Law Library Director & Assistant Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center
954-262-6211
kaufmanb@nsu.law.nova.edu

Gordon Russell
Law Library Director & Associate Professor of Law
St. Thomas University Law Library
305-623-2303
grussell@stu.edu

Herb Cihak
Associate Vice Chancellor for the Library and Information Technology and Professor of Law
Louisiana State University Law Library
Paul M. Hebert Law Center
225-578-5770
cihak@lsu.edu

Tracy L. Thompson
Executive Director
New England Law Library Consortium
603-357-3385
www.nellco.org
tracy.thompson@yale.edu

Lisa Smith-Butler
Associate Law Library Director & Adjunct Professor
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center
954-262-6215
Smith-ButlerL@nsu.law.nova.edu

Roy Balleste
Faculty Services Librarian
St. Thomas University Law Library
305-623-2340.
rballeste@stu.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 3041 | Miller Slides | Wold Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
WEBSITE REDESIGN AND THE DEVIL'S WORK
Audience:
Technical Level:

At Duke Law we have completed the planning and first stage of an extensive website redesign project. We believe that a long process of
upfront planning and goal clarification made all the difference in our redesign efforts for both print and Web publications. We will share our
process and some of the lessons learned through a discussion of three aspects:

1. Coordination of Web and print media
2. Our experiences with outsourcing, refining and using redesign templates
3. Our inhouse content management system - considerations and features

At Loyola-Los Angeles, we have discovered that trying to develop Web sites with all the designers, programmers, VPs, and marketers that make up a committee can drive anyone mad. So here's a radical thought: none of them really matter.Defining your users and focusing on them will result in highly effective Web sites. Learn how to keep the real audience in the process.

This presentation doesn't just convince you to focus on users: it shows you when, how and why. You'll see how easy it is to get usable feedback, when and how to incorporate that feedback, and how to make your deadlines despite adding a thousand people to your design team. You'll learn the best practices of evaluating Web sites, common problems users face, why instructions fail, how understanding designers and programmers helps us all get along, and why a doodle might just save your project.

Diana Nelson
Director of Communications
Duke University Law School
Tel: 919-613-7034
Nelson@law.duke.edu

Wayne Miller
Director of Educational Technologies
Duke University School of Law
919-613-7243
wmiller@law.duke.edu

Nicholas Drury
Web Services Coordinator
Duke University School of Law
919-613-7279
Drury@law.duke.edu

Brian Wold
Web Coordinator
Loyola Law School - Los Angeles
213-736-8133
brian.wold@lls.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 4045 [TOP]
The Invisible Made Visible
Audience:
Technical Level:

In today’s world, there are many ways to access legal information. Come here how technology, combined with 125 years of publishing expertise, comes together in KeyCite to provide a total research approach. We will discuss new features and content and give a preview of exciting future developments.

Sam Goodrich
West KeyCite Content Manager
west, a thomson company
651-687-1603
sam.goodrich@thomson.com

Thursday - June 19 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 4048 [TOP]
LexisNexis Web Courses for 2003/2004 - Enhancements
Audience:
Technical Level:

See upcoming LexisNexis Web Courses features/functionality. Learn advanced applications including the online gradebook, assignment management, linking to content between master and sectional courses, moving content between and within courses, and see the new Virtual Classroom environment.

Richard Smith
Product Manager
Lexis-Nexis
937 865 6800, ext. 57496
wilbur.smith@lexisnexis.com

Thursday - June 19 - 2:30-3:30p /Room 3049 | webcast | | [TOP]
DROP THE KEYBOARD AND GET YOUR HAMMER: IT MANAGERS AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Audience: IT Managers
Technical Level:

What every IT manager should know when dealing with the contractors, electricians (your best friends!) and facilities management when you are involved with build outs. The IT Director has become a general contractor when build outs for computer labs; classrooms; security systems; etc. are necessary ( and no one else here wants to deal with it!). What does IT have to do with construction? Why is it IT's responsibility? Who is involved? We will discuss managing of the following: contractors, administration expectations, budgets and more.

Jim Velco
Head of Computer Services
The John Marshall Law School
312-427-2737
8velco@jmls.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 3037 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
Using CALI Tutorials Where I Disagree with the Content, Interpretation or Method of Presentation?
Audience: Law Faculty
Technical Level: Low

Many law professors experience some frustration with the plethora of supplemental materials available for their courses. At times, the roots of these frustrations lie in professors' dissatisfactions with the legal concepts the authors present, how the authors have presented the topics, and related matters such as covering topics one never has time for in class.

This session's topic addresses those frustrations and examines how one might offer CALI lessons to students even though the tutorials deal with course
subject matter in ways that differ from the individual professor's approach or understanding. In other words, why bother with CALI lessons that may not mirror what the professor is doing in class?"

Ronald Eades
Professor of Law
University of Louisville School of Law
502-852-556
ron.eades@louisville.edu

Joe Grohman
Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University
Shepard Broad Law Center
954-262-6167
grohmanj@nsu.law.nova.edu

RON BROWN
PROFESSOR OF LAW
Nova Southeastern University
Shepard Broad Law Center
954-262-6165
brownr@nsu.law.nova.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 3043 | webcast | | [TOP]
SMIL, GRINS and Videotape: Using SMIL and RealOne to deliver the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission hearings
Audience: Web/Multimedia Developers
Technical Level: Low to Medium

Creating a multimedia presentation using SMIL, GRINS and the Real One player. Yale Law School's acquisition of over eighty (80) videotapes from the South African Broadcasting Company program "Special Report" focuses on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings held throughout South Africa during the mid-1990's.

This project includes developing a website and database indexing each program's contents and a summary of particular legal issues. The videotapes are encoded to stream in Real format. To assist the student in the research of a particular topic, we have utilized the newest version of the RealOne player and integrated the SMIL editor "GRiNS" to assist in the overall editing and timing of the elements. Students will be able to view an on-line multimedia presentation consisting of a video segment from an episode, graphics, text and websites that are triggered automatically to change with the video. These SMIL presentations have been designed to be a multimedia instructional and research tool. Using the RealOne player, students can view an on-line segment of the video plus a slide show and reference websites all in one presentation.

http://Islandia.law.yale.edu/trcdemo/ep54_2003.ram

Daniel Griffin
User Support Specialist
Instructional Technologies
Yale Law School
203-432-2197
daniel.griffin@yale.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 3041 | webcast | | [TOP]
MANAGING YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK
Audience:
Technical Level:

Wireless is hot! From Starbucks to Palm's new Tungsten, everyone is getting into the WiFi act. What about your school? Have you installed a WLAN (wireless local area network)? If you have, how are you managing the hardware (APs, gateways) and network installation?

For anyone who already has a WLAN, or is contemplating one, this session will show you one school's approach to managing wireless. At Hastings, we expanded our pilot project last summer to include most student areas in our 3-floor law library, our dining commons, all
classrooms and study areas. By the Spring semester, more than 50% of our students were using the wireless network. We use Bluesocket gateways and management software from Airwave Wireless to manage our network of 35 3E access points.

We will present a case study on our experience after one year using the Airwave management software and Bluesocket gateways. We also will have Airwave engineers at the session who will make a technical presentation on wireless technologies and some of the problems organizations are having with the management and deployment of WLANs. They will discuss how WLANs differ from wired Ethernet networks, and how to integrate wireless with existing networks. We will discuss the #1 issue of security, and the changing standards that are on the horizon. We will also talk about rogue AP detection, AP configuration, planning for WLAN deployment, and improving performance of WLANs.

Eric Noble
Director of Information Technology
UC Hastings College of the Law
415-565-4784
noblee@uchastings.edu

Greg Murphy
President
Airwave Wireless, Inc.
650-286-6100
greg@airwave.com

Thursday - June 19 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 4045 | Slides [TOP]
TWEN for 2003/2004: Come see the latest features and enhancements
Audience:
Technical Level:

Has it been a while since you have looked at TWEN? Or, are you currently using TWEN and ready to see what's new? We are constantly receiving feedback from law faculty, and this has led to some exciting developments on TWEN for the upcoming year. This session will cover the improvements that are already out there, and will let you know what is coming soon. See sign-up sheets, anonymous grading, time-released posting, and much more.

Marnie Barnes
West Product Developer
west, a thomson company
651-848-3392
marnie.barnes@thomson.com

Thursday - June 19 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 4048 [TOP]
Software Secure Tools: Computer-Based-Testing without Cheating, and Classroom Computing without Web-Surfing
Audience:
Technical Level:

Software tools help in the responsible incorporation of computers in testing and classroom learning: Computer-based testing without cheating, and Internet learning without web-surfing, wireless access without mayhem. Come learn about Software Secure’s suite of tools that better enable schools to incorporate computers in to the learning process. Most of the law school community is already familiar with Securexam, which enables the administration of cheat-proof computer-based testing. We will provide an overview of the new Securexam features, and discuss how hundreds of schools throughout the world are using Software Secure tools to address the many issues raised by student use and misuse of the Internet and computers in class.

Douglas M. Winneg
President
softwaresecure, inc.
617-354-7464
dwinneg@softwaresecure.com

Thursday - June 19 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 3049 | Chapman Slides | Danilenko Slides | Schwartz Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
Upgrading 1970s Era Facilities With Current Instructional Technologies
Audience:
Technical Level:

Faced with planning to upgrade teaching facilities with technologies used to support newer instructional technologies? Learn how to cope with the entire project life cycle including selling the plan, securing funding, engaging stakeholders for input, designing enhancements and choosing technologies and equipment; coordinating among the various contractors, and instituting training on the new systems.

Amaze your friends by discovering techniques: to deal with the frustration of upgrading buildings built like bunkers without thoughts to future upgrades; to handle architectural “purists”; and to keep your project on time and on budget when you’ve hit feet of undrillable concrete.

Gene Danilenko
Educational Technology Specialist
UNIVERSITY OF mINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL
612-625-0585
Danil003@umn.edu

april schwartz
Associate Dean for Law Information Technology Service
university of minnesoat law school
612-625-0173
schwa084@umn.edu

Ben Chapman
Director of Computing Resources
University of Tulsa College of Law
918-631-2405
bchapman@utulsa.edu

Thursday - June 19 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 4000 | Slides [TOP]
Growing the Law Library to Support Technology
Audience: Law Librarians
Technical Level: Low

In the past ten years the Duke Law School Library has reorganized and "morphed" into a broader group of departments. Those departments, now
components of Duke Law School Information Services, provide technology support for the entire school; the library itself provides traditional
and innovative library services. Of special interest to librarians, this session will explain the changes, challenges and successes of the reorganization effort.

MELANIE DUNSHEE
Head of Reference Services
Duke University School of Law Library
919-613-7119
dunshee@law.duke.edu

Kenneth J. Hirsh
Director of computing services
Duke University School of Law
919- 613-7155
ken@law.duke.edu

Wayne Miller
Director of Educational Technologies
Duke University School of Law
(919) 613-7243
wmiller@law.duke.edu

Friday - June 20, 2003

Friday - June 20 - 9:00-10:15a / Bryan Center (NOT IN LAW SCHOOL - SEE MAP) | webcast | | [TOP]

Plenary: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF LEGAL INFORMATION
Audience:
Technical Level:

Abstract from "The Social Life of Legal Information: First Impressions"...

The rapid development of digital technologies has given rise to numerous predictions about the future of the library and the university. Many of these predictions assume that both are, in essence, providers of information. The reactions of the law school and the law library to information technology present an interesting challenge to this assumption. The former has strongly resisted change, the latter has been quite transformed. The article suggests that this oddity cannot be explained in terms of information alone and offers instead an explanation in terms of practice, community, and institutions, ideas often missing from the manifestos of radical change. Failing to take these into account, proponents of change may actually be bolstering the very institutions that they seek to undermine, for the conservatism of legal education may in part help explain the radical transformation of the law library.

Paul Duguid
research specialist in Social and CulturalStudies in Education
University of California, Berkeley
duguid@socrates.berkeley.edu

Friday - June 20 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 3037 | webcast | | [TOP]
CREATE POWERFUL WEB PRESENTATIONS WITHout AN INTERNET CONNECTION
Audience:
Technical Level:

Create powerful web presentations without an Internet connection using CatchTheWeb, http://www.catchtheweb.com, a web-based authoring tool that facilitates storing, accessing, managing, sharing and collaborating on web documents

Need to make presentations in places without an Internet connection? CatchTheWeb makes a wonderful presentation tool for instruction, teaching and presenting web content in places where an Internet connection is not available. All web content, including scripts and dynamic effects, can be caught and played as if LIVE on the web.

Need to travel light? Say ‘good-bye’ to your heavy laptop and travel light to your remote presentation locations and audiences. CatchTheWeb saves your files/database on portable media in several formats so you can take them on the road.

Need to share and collaborate on documents with your remote colleagues or peers? If your document can be displayed in a browser, it can be annotated, highlighted and shared via e-mail of ‘exported’ (several formats) files/databases created with CatchTheWeb.

Need to run kiosk presentations? Your CatchTheWeb files/database can be run in auto-play and theater mode (full screen) the same way one could run a PowerPoint slide show. The player is Free as a web download (the same way Acrobat Reader is for ‘.pdf’ files).

One of a growing number of “Internet Agents”, CatchTheWeb grabs single or multiple pages from a selected web site and stores them for offline browsing.

CatchTheWeb features:

• capture complete or partial web pages including flash, pdf, database pages, email, etc. (any page or document that can be viewed in a browser)
• add yellow highlights and "sticky notes" to web pages before capture
• search document content and user-added notes (basic and advanced, with Boolean operators)
• manage files/database in Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer-like view (add, delete, rename, present, export, publish, etc.)
• share all or part of files/database by exporting (in several formats) and e-mailing files/database to anyone
• publish your files/database in ‘.mht’ format (Internet Explorer web archive), and saved it to CD-R/RW, portable USB/FireWire hard drive or flash memory so that it can be taken ‘on the road’ and used on any computer platform equipped with Internet Explorer, CD-ROM, and/or USB/FireWire
• create archive databases for present web content
• present your database in CatchTheWeb player, included with the Solo software, available as a FREE download at http://www.catchtheweb.com.

CatchTheWeb is extremely easy to use and set-up. Its help file provides, in graphical format, all the information needed to learn how to capture, highlight, annotate, save, manage, share and present captured web content. The software can be used on the PC platform only (Win. 98 thru XP) with any of the popular web browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Opera.

Michael Samson
Arthur Neef Law Library
Wayne State University
313-577-6184
ad4092@wayne.edu

Friday - June 20 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 3043 | webcast | | [TOP]
It Takes a Village...and a Stage Director: Considerations for Multi-point Teleconferenced Classes
Audience:
Technical Level:

A teleconferenced classroom is not just a solo performance. Good communication and quality learning require the attention of a crew beyond the classroom. Among the issues explored in this session:

• What are some of the technical requirements of staging a successful multi-point class?
• Who is the rest of the crew?
• Who produces? Who directs?
• What about the audience?
• And the critics?

A good script and strong cast are still key, but you won't convey this without help. For good learning in the classroom (and an earned celebration in the green room), the whole company must perform.

Jan Stone
Reference Librarian
Warren E. Burger Library
William Mitchell College of Law
651-290-6374
jstone@wmitchell.edu

Friday - June 20 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 3041 | webcast | | [TOP]
EVERY SERVICE IS A WEB SERVICE
Audience:
Technical Level:

Your website is a decently organized source of general information about your Law School. Though viewed by the administration as simply an advertising tool, you know your site could be much more. If your law school knew what you could do with a website, you would have the word "Dean" in your title! Unfortunately, you have a web department of one or few. So, what you need is a strategy for transforming your website into a tool for everything.

Nathan Alan Stryker
Web Services Manager
Pepperdine University School of Law
310-506-7296
nathan.stryker@pepperdine.edu

Friday - June 20 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 4045 [TOP]
TWEN: More than a classroom tool
Audience:
Technical Level:

Use TWEN as a whole school solution. From the law library to law journals, career services to adjunct faculty management. TWEN offers a number of interesting and helpful options to manage whole school communication and distribution of content.

Steve Nickles
Professor of Law
Wake Forest University
336-758-4296
snickles@law.wfu.edu

Friday - June 20 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 4048 | webcast | | [TOP]
How to Create and Teach a Law Practice Technology Class at Your Schools
Audience:
Technical Level:

The presenters have created a two (2) credit course at Golden Gate University School of Law that affords their students an opportunity to work with important law practice software applications and explore other technologies that affect how attorneys practice today. Automation in the Law Office is essential for making efficient use of time and resources. Current standard applications include: document management, case management, litigation support, time/billing/accounting, publishing (newsletters and client brochures), web site creation and maintenance, trial presentations, exhibit preparations, online CLE courses, electronic court filing, automated calendaring, as well as word processing and online research.

The course is designed to provide students a basic working knowledge of the types of systems available, give them hands-on exercises in a number of software applications, require practice in presenting issues using MS Publisher and PowerPoint, and promote discussion about the ethical considerations attendant with the use of various technologies.

This session will cover...

• Scope and outline of the class
• Demos of software applications that I use
• Exercises and projects that are required
• Technical requirements and considerations

Maryanne Gerber
Electronic Services Librarian, the Law Review Advisor, and an Adjunct Faculty member
Golden Gate University School of Law
415-442-6520
mgerber@ggu.edu

Sally Irvin
Associate Director for Educational Technology and Electronic Resources Librarian
Wake Forest Law School
336-758-5442
irvinsa@wfu.edu

Friday - June 20 - 10:30-11:30a / Room 4047 | webcast | | [TOP]
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: TWO CASE STUDIES
Audience:
Technical Level:

Seattle has developed a Classroom Management System using XML and Flash that ties in with the HotSeat game that demoed at CALI last year. This system will allow professors to create seating charts by simple drag and drop, record class participation, keep a digital Gradebook, etc. All the information is pumped from Datatel via XML script and each semester a prof can simply download his/her latest class information.

The University at Buffalo Law School web portal is an instructional platform as a stem surrounding the class discussion board that has become its main feature. The portal allows Law School students to access their courses online, participate in class discussions (various topics), communicate with other students and faculty, submit a take home exam, change their personal information (but does not synchronize with the University's information), etc.

The Law School’s portal is FERPA compliant. This means that by default all personal student information is not displayed to classmates unless otherwise specified by the individual student. Faculty can view the same information about students in their class as they do on paper documentation provided by the Law School’s Office of Records and Registration.

Some of the features available for faculty include:

• email capability to the whole class & any file format as an attachment to the entire class
• email communication with a specific student in the class
• addition of another colleague (must be employed by Law School) to co-teach a course with course managing privileges or addition/deletion of a guest (anyone in the world) to list of class participants
• extension of faculty privileges to their secretaries
• assignment of a take-home exam with a deadline (option to extend deadline if needed)
• creation of a discussion board with multiple topics (with the lock/unlock and visual usage indicator subfeatures)
• viewing of a participation report for class/topic per student
• archival of specific topics
• searching of discussion board topics
• creation of a course web-site
• creation/viewing/printing of a seating chart with students names/pictures for each class/classroom
• viewing of course facebook (includes all students in the class in alphabetical order)
• special groups (Braille) -- we have a visually-impaired student and have created a mini-portal just for him with the same features described above.

All of these features are available online which allow our faculty to manage their courses remotely.

Christopher Wilen, JD
Director of Instructional Design
Seattle University School of Law
206-398-4179: Phone
cfwilen@seattleu.edu

Alexander P. Dzadur
Assistant Dean for Educational Technology
Director of Information Technology Services
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
716-645-6360
law-tech@buffalo.edu

Friday - June 20 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 3037 | webcast | | [TOP]
Let me “Edutain” You - Games Shows In the Classroom
Audience:
Technical Level:

In a satirical article titled “If It Pleases the Class...” in the Chronicle of Higher Education several years ago, Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George stated, “We believe that junior professors ... must make teaching entertaining if they are to survive these perilous times in the world of academe.” While not subscribing fully to that sentiment, we believe there are ways to engage our students in the classroom that are also entertaining. Explore with us the various game show formats that can be adapted for use in the legal research classroom. We’ll share our game show adaptations and offer practical tips on creating your own versions tailored to the needs of your classroom. Survivor, anyone?

Pamela Rogers Melton
Reference Librarian
Coleman Karesh Law Library
University of South Carolina
803-777-1667
melton@law.law.sc.edu

Corrin Gee
Manager of Research Services
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
202-663-6732
corrin.gee@wilmer

Friday - June 20 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 3043 | Donnelly Slides | McLeod Slides | Miller Slides | [TOP]
LIVE VIDEOCONFERENCED DEMO AND DISCUSSION
Audience:
Technical Level:

Experience a live classroom to classroom videoconference. This session will be conducted between classrooms at Duke and Columbia Law Schools using videoconferencing systems at both schools. You can learn from staff at both locations who have done videoconferencing for several years and actively participate in the videoconference.

We will conduct the video conference using both IDSN lines (digital phone lines) and IP (over the internet), at different points in the session, to compare the differences in these two services.

Besides comparing IDSN and IP, we will discuss cameras, lighting, sound and other technical aspects involved in classroom video conferencing. Demonstrations of other presentation technology commonly used in classroom videoconferences such as MS Net Meeting and displaying PowerPoint with codecs. Also included will be a discussion of some of the larger pedagogical issues surrounding classroom videoconferencing.

Brian Donnelly
Director of Instructional Services and Lecturer in Law
Columbia University School of Law
212-854-3198
donnelly@law.columbia.edu

Wayne Miller
Director, Educational Technologies
Duke University School of Law
919- 613-7243
wmiller@law.duke.edu

Friday - June 20 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 3041 | webcast | | [TOP]
SPEAK IN SECRET ALPHABETS: NETWORK MONITORING AND SECURITY TOOLS
Audience: Netadmins
Technical Level: Medium to High

When dealing with the network do you feel as if you are trying to nail jello to a wall ? Well you are ! This session will present freeware, shareware and inexpensive commercial software tools to assist in network monitoring and network security. We will look at such tools as WINDUMP, Ethereal, NBTSCAN, Net Probe, Solar Winds, Super Scanner, NMAP, Big Brother, MRTG etc.This will be an overview of these tools rather than an in depth look.

Also, see the health and status of your systems at a glance, be alerted to a system failure before your users, and make sure those users are behaving themselves. This presentation will investigate the underappreciated auditing features of the Microsoft Windows platform. We'll look at different methods for collection and notification, as well as dig into the gritty issues of what to audit and how to respond to common events. Non-windows platform issues will also be addressed via remote port querying.

William Fray
Yale Law School
Manager Network Operations
203-432-4167
william.fray@yale.edu

David Dickens
Network Services Manager
Pepperdine University School of Law
310-506-4047
david.dickens@pepperdine.edu

Friday - June 20 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 4045 [TOP]
Better, faster legal research with a new westlaw.com search enhancement: ResultsPlus
Audience:
Technical Level:

Get a sneak preview of ResultsPlus, the new westlaw.com search enhancement being released next week. This feature will streamline legal research by providing faster access to on-point analytical materials and case-finding tools directly related to your research.

Margaret Wanstall
Westlaw Technical Product Specialist
west, a thomson company
margaret.wanstall@thomson.com

Friday - June 20 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 4048 [TOP]
Adding Content to Make Your Web Course an Electronic Casebook
Audience:
Technical Level:

View a demonstration of a working Web Course designed to function as an " electronic casebook." Create an online course providing the student
exactly what they need:

• sequential reading materials
• tailored specifically for the course,
• uploaded from outside sources, and
• linked directly to lexis.com
• daily assignments, and
• comprehensive testing functionality.

Trevor Spencer
Account Executive
Lexis-Nexis
415-616-4425
trevor.spencer@lexisnexis.com

Friday - June 20 - 1:00-2:00p / Room 4047 | webcast | | [TOP]
AUTOMATING CLASS SCHEDULING
Audience:
Technical Level:

As a former Associate Dean, Professor Saxer will introduce the session by briefly outlining the challenges of scheduling law school classes to appropriately consider student needs, faculty preferences, and law school resources. For years, most law schools have used various manual methods to create the class schedule, including magnetic boards and post-it notes. Recently, however, schools are turning to automated tools to efficiently accomplish this task. Two automated scheduling systems will be presented. First, Professor Gary Thompson will present an overview of the SchedulExpert PostSecondary course scheduling software that is used at 35 colleges and universities, including several law schools. Over 5,000 person-hours have
gone into the development of the software. The software finds the best times and rooms for courses in a way that maximizes faculty preferences with the schedule, avoids conflicts between designated classes (so students can take their required and desired courses) and observes facility constraints (like seating capacity). Finally, by collecting students' course preferences on-line, and building the schedule based on those preferences, the software yields demand-driven schedules.

Following the SchedulExpert presentation,Garnette Knoll from the University of Arizona will describe the design and architecture of the application developed at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and will explain the development process as well as the lessons learned. This class and room scheduling application is integrated within the larger College of Law environment that includes UALaw Forums, Faculty pages, News and Events, Master Calendar as well as other aspects of the "Academic Program."

Shelley Saxer
Professor of Law
Pepperdine School of Law
818-865-2962
Shelley.Saxer@pepperdine.edu

Garnette Knoll
Support systems analyst
university of arizona school of law
520-626-3446
garnette@law.arizona.edu

Gary M. Thompson, Ph.D.
President
SchedulExpert, Inc.
607-255-8214
gmt1@SchedulExpert.com

Friday - June 20 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 3037 | Bibliography | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
THE PEDAGOGICAL DEBATE OVER LIVE INTERNET ACCESS DURING CLASS
Audience:
Technical Level:

A heated debate is currently raging in law schools over the pedagogical pros and cons of wired classrooms, and the increasingly widespread use of laptops during class. Do these technologies create more opportunities for a greater number of students to zone out during class, or are they helping law professors to do a better job of engaging
today's Digital Age students than traditional teaching methods? To what extent are computers more pernicious distractions than previous generations of distractions like passing notes or doing crossword puzzles? Should law professors attempt to impose control on students by banning web access or laptop use during class? Or are such efforts at control misguided or ineffective? Are there other strategies that techno-minded legal educators should employ to keep computer classroom distractions to a minimum? Professors Debra Cohen and Susanna Fischer
will draw on their own classroom experiences and available pedagogical literature to present a variety of different viewpoints on this issue, and will also put forward their own proposals for resolving the debate.

Susanna Fischer
Assistant Professor
The Catholic University School of Law
202-319-5568
fischer@law.edu

Debra R. Cohen
Professor of Law
West Virginia University School of Law
401-254-4505
dcohen@wvu.edu

Friday - June 20 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 3043 | webcast | | [TOP]
Who’s Behind That Camera? Audio-Visual/Multimedia in Law Schools Panel
Audience:
Technical Level:

Where does audio-visual/multimedia services sit organizationally within Law Schools? What kinds of services do these organizations provide? Is “A/V” even the right term to use? What does the future hold for these kinds of services within Law Schools? Join several panelists in a roundtable discussion as they lead the exchange of ideas about the organization, provision, and future planning of “audio-visual” services within their organizations.

Gene Danilenko
Educational Technology Specialist
UNIVERSITY OF mINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL
612-625-0585 (voice)
Danil003@umn.edu

Glen-Peter Ahlers, Sr.
Associate Dean of Information Services
Barry University
Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
407- 275-2000 x355
gahlers@mail.barry.edu

Terrence McCormack,
Head, M. Robert Koren AV Center & AV Librarian
Law Library, University at Buffalo
716- 645-2831
cormack@acsu.buffalo.edu

Kay McDonnell
director Information Technology Services
University of Pennsylvania
215-898-2527
kay@law.upenn.edu

Friday - June 20 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 3041 | Chapman Slides | Lenz Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CASE STUDIES
Audience:
Technical Level:

Ben Chapman will discuss the experiences of the University of Tulsa College of Law after two years using Zope (an object-oriented open source content management system built on top of Python; available at http://www.zope.org) to manage a dynamic site. He will also discuss the next generation of the Tulsa Law site, web standards, accessibility, and xml.

Evan Lenz will provide an overview of the architecture of Seattle University School of Law's Web site, based on Cocoon, an XML-based Web publishing framework (http://cocoon.apache.org). By separating presentation from content, the site is able to provide three versions of each page ("Flash", " Standard", and "Text-only"). Lenz will also present on "Redhawk", the school's custom content management system based on 4Suite, a platform for
XML/RDF processing (http://www.4suite.org). Redhawk empowers information owners to create and manage content for the school's 50-inch touch-screen kiosks, as well as announcements and events published on the Web site.

Benjamin J. Chapman
Director of Computing Resources TU College of Law
918-631-2405
benjamin-chapman@utulsa.edu

Evan Lenz
Content Management Architect
Seattle University School of Law
206-398-4186
lenze@seattleu.edu

Friday - June 20 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 4045 | Slides | [TOP]
Public knowledge, private ignorance
Audience:
Technical Level:

The traditional way of thinking about the way people deal with their information needs is to assume that they have good control over their own information stores, but only imperfect control over the store of public knowledge. Increasingly, however, the private information stores belonging to individuals and organizations have grown very large, outstripping the technology used to manage them. In the context of legal services, it is not unusual to find that a law firm or other legal services agency has less practical access to its own work product than it has to public documents like cases and statutes. This session will explore developing knowledge management technology, particularly the possibilities for merging public and private information stores into a unified research environment.

Dr. Dan Dabney
Senior Director for Research and Development
west, a thomson company
651-687-8639
dan.dabney@thomson.com

Friday - June 20 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 4048 [TOP]
Using LexisNexis Web Courses for Online Office Hours and Class Discussions
Audience:
Technical Level:

The focus of this presentation is on using LexisNexis Web Courses to set up office hours and class discussions. The system allows instructors to create course events which the students can " sign-up" for. The system displays the attendee roster in an easy to view format. Event creators can set the title, description, location, host and start and end time of the event. Additional options give event creators even more flexibility by restricting the sign-up times, limiting the number of attendees, creating wait lists, allowing anonymous registration for events, and more!

Christina DeVillacian
Account Executive
Lexis-Nexis
212-309-7873
christina.devillacian@lexisnexis.com

Friday - June 20 - 2:30-3:30p / Room 4047 | webcast | | [TOP]
Bluebooks Don’t Freeze: Administering Exams on Computers
Audience:
Technical Level:

So you’ve decided to let students take exams on computers. What next? When giving exams on computers, there are logistical considerations to address that do not arise when offering traditional written “bluebook” exams. These considerations arise regardless of what type of exam software is used, or even if no exam software is used. In this program, a panel of speakers will discuss various ways of addressing the considerations involved in planning and administering exams on computers. Topics include: registration to take exams on computers; support before, during and after exams; coordination with law school registrar; and use of a database to assign students to rooms and track exam-related issues. This program will be vendor neutral. We will not be discussing exam software.

D.R. Jones
Deputy Director
Case Western Reserve University Law Library
216-368-2794
drj5@po.cwru.edu

Dan Weiss, Associate Director
Instructional Technology
Loyola Law School
213-736-8351
dan.weiss@lls.edu

Megan Allen
Electronic Services & Training Librarian
CWRU School of Law
216-368-5223
mja5@po.cwru.edu

James Cooper
Director of Technology & Media Services
seattle university school of law
206-398-4174
jcooper@seattleu.edu

Chris Butzen
Registrar
Loyola Law School
213 736-1017
chris.butzen@lls.edu

Friday - June 20 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 3037 | Jack Slides | Meyer Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
TEACHING INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH ("THE FREE WEB")
Audience:
Technical Level:

The web is becoming more and more important as a cost-effective means of obtaining primary and secondary legal resources. At the same time, non-legal resources (company information, information on individuals, news) seem to be increasing in importance for attorneys. How do law schools teach web research, and when? This session will examine the ways that two institutions do such.

Among other things, attendees will learn what types of free online legal resources exist, the advantages to and disadvantages of those resources, and how to incorporate them into an electronic legal research course or as a stand-alone offering.

William Jack, JD
Legal Research Instructor and Reference Librarian
Warren E. Burger Law Library
William Mitchell College of Law
651- 290-6380
bjack@wmitchell.edu

Patrick Meyer
Electronic Resources Librarian &
Adjunct Professor of Law
Loyola Law School
213-736-1413
Patrick.meyer@lls.edu

Friday - June 20 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 3043 | webcast | | [TOP]
Who moved my VHS? strategies and opportunities for the digital change
Audience:
Technical Level:

VHS was the Swiss army knife of media. But like any tool a replacement comes along. Digital is a new tool that offers us the ability to enhance current services. We can work faster, smarter and accomplish more. We will touch on the following, cost, options, transitioning, and enhancements. How can we incorporate the digital potential into the rest of our Web, Library, and Instructional resources? Preplanning and budgeting can allow the progression to this new media without leaving archives or users stranded.

Topics will include:

• Costs of VHS to Digital,
• Examining how to continue current services,
• Developing workflows,
• Special considerations, and
• New opportunities

A Sony representative will introduce and demonstrate new cameras and equipment for your digital tool box.
I'll demonstrate Apple Computer products that can provide "out of box", Unix based, digital solution for digital media manipulation and supply.

Bryan Bell
Educational Technologies Manager
Cornell Law School
607-255-1258
brb10@cornell.edu

STUART UNGER
Northeast Education Account Manager
SONY
Stuart.Unger@am.sony.com

Friday - June 20 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 3041 | webcast | | [TOP]
CREATING ACCESSIBLE WEBSITES
Audience:
Technical Level:

This session will examine the HTML and XHTML coding standards. It will show you how to construct a web page that can be validated by the W3 validator. It will also introduce you to Sec 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and place its requirements in the context of the W3 Web Accessibility Guidelines and other national accessibility initiatives. Examples of accessible coding will be presented for menus, tables, accesskeys, etc. A web page template will be discussed in relation to the standards. Results of a survey of US law school web sites will be presented.

Steve Perkins
sperkins@interaccess.com

Friday - June 20 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 4045 [TOP]
THE CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE SYSTEM FROM EINSTRUCTION
Audience: Anyone
Technical Level: Low

With one computer, engage your students throughout class using the Classroom Performance System. CPS is an interactive response system that will change the way you teach. Students are transformed from passive listeners to active learners. With CPS, you can ask objective and subjective questions, then every student responds with their individual, wireless response pad! In addition to assessing classroom comprehension, CPS also grades quizzes and homework in a matter of seconds. CPS keeps a log of every class session you create, so your records are always available at the click of a mouse. Learn more about CPS at www.einstruction.com.

Glenn Jacobus
educational consultant
eInstruction corporation
gjacobus@att.net

Michael Paul
Director of Content
eInstruction corporation
michaelp@einstruction.com

Bob Gahagan
Educational Consultant
eInstruction corporation
b.gahagan@att.net

Friday - June 20 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 4048 [TOP]
Interactive Citation Workstation
Audience:
Technical Level:

Teach citations a different way. Assign the Interactive Citation Workbook and have students use the online Interactive Citation Workstation as their personal tutor, allowing them to work at their own pace and providing immediate feedback for wrong answers. The 2003 editions of the ICW Workbooks for ALWD and Bluebook (with new exercises) are available. The 2003 version of the ICW Workstation will be demonstrated.

Fran Warren
Product Manager
Lexis-Nexis
843-650-7296
frances.warren@lexisnexis.com

Friday - June 20 - 4:00-5:00p / Room 4047 | webcast | | [TOP]
BUY OR BUILD YOUR ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM?
Audience:
Technical Level:

In this session, the presenters will attempt to explore some advantages and disadvantages of off-the-shelf software versus a customized software solution for schools. Real-life examples of software packages that have been implemented and are currently either used or not used and the panel will possibly discuss some of the pitfalls of customizing (build) versus shrink-wrapped (buy) options. Informal panel format and the possible use of powerpoint presentation, video and demos to enhance the discussion.

As this will be an informal discussion, we hope the audience will participate by sharing their experiences (and war stories) with us.

June Liebert
Director of Internet Initiatives and Lecturer
University of Texas School of Law
512-232-2736
JLiebert@mail.law.utexas.edu

W. Ken Woo
Northwestern University School of Law
Director of Law School Computing
312-503-0193
k-woo@law.northwestern.edu

Saturday - June 21, 2003

Saturday - June 21 - 9:30-10:30a / Room 3037 | webcast | | [TOP]
1L Orientation Day - Electronically!
Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

As law technologies have progressed, there is increasing amounts of information that must be communicated to students during the orientation process in regards to a law school's electronic environment --- everything from intranet systems to wireless configuration to recommended laptop programs.

In an attempt to simplify this process, the Computer Services Department at Santa Clara University Law School has developed a comprehensive CD-ROM that is mailed to students prior to orientation. The CD-ROM contains all the necessary information a student needs in order to be fully prepared electronically for law school.

Furthermore, the CD-ROM goes one step further by being as attractive and inviting as possible to the typical incoming law student. For example, various videos, interactive maps, Quicktime tours, etc. are found throughout the CD-ROM. During this presentation, this CD-ROM will be demonstrated and discussed in detailed, as well as how, through collaboration with other departments, the CD-ROM will serve as the foundation for a fully electronic orientation process at SCU Law School.

Andrew Gurthet
Director of Law Technology and Academic Computing
Santa Clara University School of Law
408-554-6938
agurthet@scu.edu

Angela Hum
Principal, Ah!Studio, Inc.
415-701-1518
angela@ahstudio.com

Saturday - June 21 - 9:30-10:30a / Room 3043 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
CALL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS/HELP DESK SUPPORT FOR FACULTY AND STUDENTS
Audience:
Technical Level:

In the past year Fordham University School of Law’s help desk has gone through an exhaustive reconfiguration in an effort to improve service delivery and call tracking. We will share some of those successes andcover the critical aspects of call management system tools for providing the appropriate amount of support for faculty, administrators and students. We will also cover effective support strategies for studenttechnologies and how they differ from the role of supporting faculty and administrators.

Here is a brief outline of the session’s topic:

• What is a call management solution?
• How can call management systems be maximized to provide the appropriate support for our institution?
• What are the benefits of an effective call management system?
• Which call management solution is right for us?
• Leveraging support strategies for students

Manny Rodriguez
Assistant Manager, User Support
Fordham University School of Law
212-636-6869
mrodriguez@law.fordham.edu

Charmaine Matthews
Technology Assistant
Fordham University School of Law
212-636-6969
cmatthews@law.fordham.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 9:30-10:30a / Room 3041 | webcast | | [TOP]
Budgeting and other current issues for IT officers
Audience: Information Officers, Directors, and personnel with IT management responsibilities
Technical Level: Dilbert's Boss

The speaker hopes to rouse the audience from its morning slumbers with a short presentation of current IT management issues that are of concern to information officers and directors, followed by a round-table discussion with the audience. If you have more money in your technology budget than you know what to do with, please do not attend this session. We will discuss creative funding sources such as grants, service revenue and marketing agreements. The session will cover cost-cutting
strategies, some of them painless. Other issues to be discussed are budget engineering, cooperation, and university taxes and services. Finally, the session will close with philosophical considerations about unfunded mandates, particularly information security, business continuity, and disaster recovery.

PABLEO MOLINA
CIO
GEORGETOWN uNIVERSITY LAW CENTER
202-662-9004
molina@law.georgetown.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 9:30-10:30a / Room 4045 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
Clinic Case Management: Is Amicus YOUR Friend?
Audience: Those who are exploring Case Management for their clinic.
Technical Level: No technical expertise required, but some tips will be provided for Techies to implement Amicus.

he University of New Mexico has used Amicus Case Management software in its Clinic for three semesters. The presentation will include:

• UNM School of Law Clinical Law program overview
• Software we used before Amicus
• Why we chose Amicus
• Adapting Amicus to the Clinic (multi-user) environment
• What Amicus provides for Case Management
• What Amicus provides a student
• What Amicus provides faculty

karen M. Talley
Unit Support Analyst
university of new mexico school of law
505-277-9045
TALLEY@law.unm.edu

J. Michael Norwood
Professor of Law
University of New Mexico School of Law
505-277-6553
norwood@law.unm.edu

Cyndi Dean
IT Manager
UNM School of Law
505-277-0695
DEAN@law.unm.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 9:30-10:30a / Room 4048 | Slides [TOP]
REGEX
Audience:
Technical Level:

REGEX (regular expressions) are basic linguistic building blocks used to match patterns in text. They are an important part of the system administrator's or programmer's toolkit, used in everything from server configuration files to perl scripting to multifile search-and-replace operations. They bear an unfortunate resemblance to the cabalistic blackboard-scrawlings of a schizoid Nepalese algebra teacher, but fear not: they can be mastered. Join Tom Bruce for a gentle introduction to the wonders of \\a(.*?)n{3,2}z??, s/\/\///, and metacharacters never advertised on Sesame Street. Examples will be taken from perl text-extraction programs and common Linux application configuration files, with a nod to PHP programming.

TOM BRUCE
CO-DIRECTOR, LII
607-255-1221
TRB2@CORNELL.EDU

Saturday - June 21 - 9:30-10:30a / Room 4047 | [TOP]
A GENTLE INTRODUCTION TO LINUX
Audience:
Technical Level:

New to Linux? John Heywood will provide a basic introduction to installing and configuring Linux for basic services. Plenty of time for questions and easing of minds.

John heywood
UberGeek
American University, Washington College of Law
202.274.4329
heywood@american.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 11:00-12:00p / Room 3037 | webcast | | [TOP]
Maximizing Digital Classroom Imagery: Avoiding "Death by PowerPoint"
Audience:
Technical Level:

Computer-based slide presentations utilizing Microsoft PowerPoint software are the orthodox means by which information is conveyed to groups in corporate settings, the military, and increasingly in the classroom. There are obvious practical advantages to using PowerPoint in the university classroom. Properly sequenced and meaningful slides reduce reliance upon teaching notes and raise your confidence level, especially when engaging new material. Slides keep you organized and, at least initially, they foster a more positive perception of the presenter. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to hear students describe slide intensive classes or lectures as being akin to “death by PowerPoint.” This results from a teaching mind-set focused on text (i.e. “bullet slides”) as opposed to imagery. PowerPoint works best when it bridges the gap between students who respond to concrete experience and those that respond to the abstract. A teaching approach that includes a thoughtful visual dimension will appeal to and engage all your students, whatever their learning styles. This program demonstrates in an entertaining and thought-provoking format, the advantages (and pitfalls) of using PowerPoint in the college classroom.

LTC John Winn, JD, LLM
Assistant Professor
Department of Law
United States Military Academy - West Point
845-938-5549 X3510
EJ4951@USMA.EDU

Saturday - June 21 - 11:00-12:00p / Room 3043 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
Preparing a Digital Project: Lessons from the Harvard Law School Library
Audience:
Technical Level:

In 2001 the Harvard Law School Library decided to standardize how it approached digitizing materials from its special and general collections. The resulting guidelines, written from a project management perspective, cover everything from material selection and goal-setting to publicity and evaluation of the final project. Focusing on the long-neglected but never-the-less important preparation aspects of a digital project, this session should provide useful tips and reminders for anyone seeking a smooth implementation of their digital reformatting project

Matt Ball
Legal Portrait Digitization Project
Harvard Law School Library
617-496-9819
jmball@law.harvard.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 11:00-12:00p / Room 3041 | webcast | | [TOP]
GOING IT ALONE (OR NEARLY SO), SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR THE SMALL IT STAFF
Audience:
Technical Level:

So many hats, so few heads. The IT staffs of law schools are asked to assume responsibility for many things, from the mundane to the sophisticated. How do you maintain a high level of service when responsibilities increase while staff size stays the same. This problem is magnified when you have a full time staff of two, 650 students, a
part-time program, a growing faculty and a study abroad program.

This session will cover the basic elements of the small IT staff, staff time and project management, improving the quality of life for the IT staff, and why we like working in a small IT shop. We will share strategies for finding an advocate in power, taking control of the budget and asset management, developing reasonable expectations for customers and staff, and how to get the most out your expertise and
connections.

Steve Nelson
IT Manager/Computer Services Librarian
Marquette Law School
414-288-5534
stephen.nelson@marquette.edu

Brad Ney
Academic Computer Consultant
Marquette Law School
414-288-5586
bradford.ney@marquette.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 11:00-12:00p / Room 4045 | Hannon Slides | Weis Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
Napster and its ProGENY: The Technology, The Law and Computer Administrators Caught in THE Crossfire
Audience:
Technical Level:

The first presentation, led by Mike Hannon, will start with an overview of peer-to-peer technology and how peer-to-peer file sharing technology works compared to traditional networking. (this will entail a description of how networked computers work on the Internet (client/server compared to peer-to-peer). He will discuss the problems that music downloading causes for administrators of computer servers and networks. Different file sharing technologies like Napster, Gnutella and Kazaa will be compared and contrasted. Hannon’s presentation will segue into a description of emerging technologies intended to prevent illegal file sharing. Lastly, he will anticipate future developments in file sharing technology.

In the second presentation, Valerie Weis, will discuss how copyright law has been used by the RIAA and the recording studios to impede the use of peer-to-peer file sharing technology services such as Napster. She will describe how new case law and legislation could impact the liability of universities for the illegal downloading of copyrighted music.

Mike Hannon
Reference Librarian
Duke university law school
919-613-7198
hannon@law.duke.edu

valierie weis
reference librarian
Duke university law school
919-613-7120
weis@law.duke.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 11:00-12:00p / Room 4048 | Slides [TOP]
Putting Old PC's to use as Public Terminals: The Linux Terminal Server Project
Audience: IT Staff, IT Managers, Librarians (and anyone else with a stretched IT budget)
Technical Level: Low to Medium

At our law school we have a room full of old computers that still function, but are not fast enough to run Windows NT with Internet Explorer 6 properly. We could still use these computers in different areas of our law library, but they are soooooo slowwwww they are not functionally usable. So what do we do?

We have a souped up computer (the server) and have RedHat Linux 8.0 Installed on it (the folks in North Carolina would probably like the fact that we are using RedHat), with lots of memory. We have Mozilla for web browsing, and OpenOffice for word processing (MS Word compatible), and a Adobe Acrobat for Pdf viewing. On the old P166 machines we either put a special boot disk in the floppy dirve, or if you want to get fancy you can have them boot directly from the network card. Our slow computer then connects to our fast machine using X windows. The net result is that the user experience on the slow machine is just as fast as on the fast machine in the server room. If the Web browser and OpenOffice are installed correctly they use the memory very efficiently on the Server. Soooo... A fast good Quality server, configured properly with fast hard drives, a fast network connection and lots of memory can comfortably serve up to 50 old computers, and have excellent performance and response times. As with all IT solutions, there are pro's and con's to this solution, and we will discuss them during the Session.

Rich McCue
System Administrator
UNIVERSITY OF VicTORIA Faculty of Law
403-472-4716
rmccue@law.uvic.ca

Saturday - June 21 - 11:00-12:00p / Room 4047 | [TOP]
linxus sysadmin for beginners
Audience:
Technical Level:

Following on to "A Gentle Introduction", this session covers the basic of Linux System Adminsitration - adding users, installing and running new services, etc.

Daniel Nagy
Sr. Analyst
Emory University School of Law
404-727-7568
dnagy@law.emory.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 12:30-1:30p / Room 3037 | webcast | | [TOP]
PRIVACY AND YOUR LAW SCHOOL WEBSITE
Audience:
Technical Level:

Hackers, stalkers, thieves, snoopers, spiders, and the Patriot Act. All of these affect the privacy and safety of personal information on your network. In this session, John Joergensen of Rutgers University, John Joergensen and Deb. Ranard of Capital University will talk about privacy policies for the information at their institutions. The presentations will be short (about 15 minutes each), to be followed by general discussion of the issues raised.

John P. Joergensen
Reference Librarian
Rutgers University School of Law - Camden
856-225-6460
jjoerg@camlaw.rutgers.edu

Deb Ranard
director of information technology
Capital University School of Law
614-236-6586
dranard@law.capital.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 12;30-1:30p | Room 3041 | webcast |
DISTANCE ED/CHINA
Audience:
Technical Level:

Professor Metzloff is working on a grant to develop video and other materials for a course called Distinctive Aspects of US Law taught to international LL.M. students (as well as to students in international law schools). The course focuses on about fifteen topics that illustrate special aspects of American law, such as affirmative action, the death penalty, punitive damages, jury trials, and separation of church of state. The grant is providing support for the development of video materials including interviews with judges and leading scholars to help define the issues involved. Other source materials, such as clips from NPR or other sources, are also being considered. The program will discuss the pedagogical rationale for developing such materials, discuss how best to utilize such materials, and also consider distance learning applications.

Tom Metzloff
Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law
919-613-7055
Metzloff@law.duke.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 12:30-1:30p / Room 3043 | Slides | webcast | | [TOP]
CLOSE THE COMPUTER LAB, OPEN AND INTERNET CAFE?
Audience:
Technical Level:

What once was avant-garde technology for students has become main stream and managed. Wireless everywhere, ‘for fee’ printing, exams on computers, prolific notebook ownership, course home pages and wonderful intranets are
considered standard characteristics of law school environments. What can we do next? Close the computer lab and open an internet café where folks can have access to computing equipment, services and support that lie at the far ends of today’s technology spectrum. When combined with the main stream technologies, an internet café’ can 1) be an experimental lab for deploying new technologies, 2) provide a touch of tech excitement and 3) let us observe the technology’s impact on the school’s culture, communications and community.

We will also examine the benefits of wireless with a focus on how it is leveraged to enhance the academic services that we offer. We will also explore the impact of the wireless network on how students do their work in and around our buildings.

John G. Keyser
Associate Dean for Administration and Technology
Washington & Lee University, School of Law
540-458-8162
keyserj@wlu.edu

Gary Francis Banks
Assistant Dean for Information Technology
University of Virginia School of Law
434-924-7808
gbanks@virginia.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 12:30-1:30p / Room 3041 | [TOP]
No Session

Saturday - June 21 - 12:30-1:30p / Room 4045 | webcast | | [TOP]
The USA PATRIOT ACT - How the law changed and how law librarians and IT professionals are responding
Audience:
Technical Level:

The USA PATRIOT Act increases government access to information that is stored in or passes through the law school or law library. One speaker will review the law before and after the Act, and another will speak about policies and procedures that librarians and IT professionals are developing for responding to the law. Ample time will be allocated for questions and discussion.

Anne Klinefelter
Associate Director and Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Kathrine R. Everett Law Library
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
919-962-6202
klinefel@email.unc.edu

Chris Schroeder
Professor of Law, Director of the Program on Public Law
Duke University School of Law
Schroeder@law.duke.edu

Saturday - June 21 - 12:30-1:30p / Room 4048 [TOP]
Building Dynamic Web Applications
Audience:
Technical Level:

Open discussion with members of the Teknoids community in attendance to answer questions jaw about how much better it all was in the good old days when we used COBOL on IBM 1401s running Autocoder and punch cards.

too numerous to list

Saturday - June 21 - 2:30-3:30p / Front Lawn [TOP]
DEBATE & BBQ COOKOUT:In the Crossfire: Should law school technologists form a professional membership organization?
Audience:
Technical Level:

Earlier this year the question was posed on the Teknoids list. Have you got an opinion? Put yours up against those of our panelists in this "Crossfire" type discussion. Moderator Ken Hirsh is joined by panelists Tom Bruce, Ben Chapman, Cyndi Dean, Anna Belle Leiserson, Stephen Nelson and Steven Perkins. Close out the conference with this rousing session, followed by a good ol' North Carolina BBQ on the law school lawn. Chopped pork, fried chicken, baked beans, turnip greens, boiled potatoes, coleslaw, rolls, dessert, lemonade and ice tea are on the menu. And work it off with a game of volleyball in the school's beach volleyball court.

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