Full Conference Program
Thursday
How should law schools respond to the explosion of social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc) online?
How can students exploit new learning and career opportunities while avoiding pitfalls? What should professors do when students try to "friend" them? If class discussions wind up Tweeted, how do schools protect students' privacy? Are schools putting themselves at the mercy of disinterested for-profit companies with unfriendly policies? This workshop makes a first pass at answering these questions and devising a draft policy recommendation on which to base future discussion.
Laura Bergus has assembled a *very non-academic* compilation of social media best practices for law schools into a website. Currently this lives at http://smbp.laurabergus.com, but hopefully will be taken over by an institution that can update it and add more concrete recommendations. (volunteers?). There're a lot of content areas missing and that many references aren't cited or linked yet. But hopefully it will be some food for thought on a few aspects of this topic.
Between online law journals, faculty scholarship, and digital libraries, most institutions are developing online repositories. And although it has only arisen in the context of government information, the issue of document authentication is significant for all types of digital repositories.
In this session, we will discuss both the importance of authentication as well as some aspects of the topic that may be overblown. We will then discuss some of the practical aspects of implementing an authentication scheme. This will include a discussion of document tagging to establish provenance, digital signatures, and dealing with documents in different formats.
The first half of the presentation assumes no technical knowledge. The second half will assume a basic understanding of meta-tagging and common document formats (HTML, PDF, JPG, XML).
In this changing world of scholarly authority, each slice of the scholarly communication spectrum plays an important role. Creating content is no longer a concern. There is an abundance, in fact an overabundance of scholarly research and other information, and scarcity is not the issue. The issue is creating a model for producing, sharing, and maintaining scholarly communications through communities that are sustainable and enhance innovative research by other scientists. Online communities with significant value to the widest array of users provide a basis for sustainability. Scholarly communities, based on an interdisciplinary approach, encourage innovative research. Sustainability and innovative research are critical to providing the broadest spectrum of scholarly communication to the greatest number of users. Providing access to epic amounts of content is not enough, the communities also need to increase the efficient use of the content and provide user focused tools that allow the scientists to be the most efficient and effective in their research activities. Using data from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and other sources, this presentation will offer a model for creating a sustainable online community that establishes scholarly authority.
This session will:
1) Compare, contrast and explain some of the top software packages including: Adobe Captivate, Camtasia, Jing, and uTipu.
2) Explain the best teaching and learning practices for creating videos for online learning. Best practices include the principles of multimedia, contiguity, modality, coherence and redundancy.
3) Combine the best practices with the technology and show examples of how video tutorials can be used to enhance and improve learning for students and faculty.
Sample tutorials include:
Students: navigating the student web portal
Faculty: Web Courses Basics.
Session Presenter: Lindsay Hutchins Matts, Educational Technologist, William Mitchell College of Law.
lindsay dot matts at wmitchell dot edu
www.wmitchell.edu/educational-technology
Virtualization is the new "Green Computing" initiative, saving space, time, energy, and money. Learn how virtualization can change your Law School Datacenter. We will provide an overview of different virtualization technologies as well as a few case studies.
An introduction to the shiney new CALI website powered by Drupal.
Grab some lunch and come on over for an informal demo and discussion about CALI's website upgrade powered by Drupal and discussion about current and future projects from CALI.
This session starts 30 minutes after lunch starts and is repeated on Friday at lunch.
Technology is changing at a rapid pace. New gadgets are invented and introduced regularly. This program will snapshot the newest and coolest gadgets with an explanation of how they may be effectively implemented in the law school setting.
This session will cover how to install and configure DSpace.
This session is technical and geared towards sys admins that would like to know how to install and configure DSpace in a Linux environment.
The session will cover what hardware, software, and steps are necessary to get DSpace running. The session will focus on the Fedora Core 10 OS for installation.
The session will also cover the configuration options, and a working example.
In this workshop we will cover easy ways to begin with module development, highlighting some simple ways to integrate with Drupal. We will start from some basic hooks, and point out security, localization and internationalization best practices. Drupal might look intimidating at first, but you'll learn that starting off your first modules is a breeze. If you develop with the community agreed best practices, you'll see that rolling forward is much easier then just making up your own rules on the way, so we will show some best practices developed through the past. You will hopefully walk away with an understanding of some of the fundamental integration possibilities in Drupal, such as the menu system, blocks, forms and emails.
In designing a law school homepage, there are many design decisions to make: JavaScript? Flash? Rotating images? How big should the logo be? Who gets space in this limited real estate? Come to this session to learn about a project conducted to capture and analyze homepages for more than 200 law schools, including online-only institutions.
During February and March 2009, the Georgetown Law Library collected screenshots and data about law school homepages.
Download the entire report here: Law School Website Design Study 2009
Based on data from over 200 website homepages, the report includes details about site colors, display sizes, script usage, site search and several individual design elements. During this session, I will:
- provide charts and data about specific site elements
- present examples of site design elements
- discuss and critique data collection methods
- eplore ideas for additional use of this data
This report should be relevant for any school planning a site redesign or benchmarking your school's site with others.
“CaseMap”: Attend This Session and Get FREE CaseMap Software For Your School, a $5 Starbucks Card, and a Chance to Win Bose Acoustic Noise-Cancelling Headphones!!
Attend this session and you will leave with more than free coffee cards and prizes. You’ll learn all about a cutting-edge, case analysis tool called “CaseMap” that is used by 100’s of top law firms around the country. LexisNexis is now proudly offering law schools FREE access to CaseMap so that faculty and students can enjoy the benefits that law firms have enjoyed for years. CaseMap is already being used by law school clinics all over the country to help manage their caseloads and teach students about the importance of technology in today’s practice of law. Similarly, professors who teach legal research and writing and other skills-oriented courses are integrating CaseMap into their programs because of the key advantages it offers for both faculty and students.
Law school faculty look to their IT professionals to make them aware of new software that can help them teach or enhance the educational experience of students. CaseMap offers all of that and more, and it’s FREE! Don’t miss this opportunity to introduce your school to CaseMap. They will thank you for it.
What is CaseMap?
CaseMap is a powerful yet simple case analysis tool that provides lawyers with an efficient way to organize and analyze all of the critical information in a case.
Easy Organization and Analysis of Case Information: The “Case Map” created by the user serves as a central repository for all of the information gathered in the case. With CaseMap’s easy- to- use spreadsheets, each category of case information has its own place, i.e., the legal issues, cast of characters, key facts, documentary evidence, and relevant legal authorities. More importantly, CaseMap’s linking feature allows the user to identify and evaluate the relationships between and among these critical pieces of information. For example, a legal issue in the case can be easily linked to the specific facts, documents and legal authorities that support it.
Similarly, the “reporting” feature allow the user to capture their analysis in customized reports that can help to jumpstart motions for summary judgment, exhibit lists, witness lists, etc.
CaseMap, however, is more than just a practical tool for analyzing and managing case information. It is also valuable, pedagogical tool. By systematizing all of the critical tasks and analytical steps involved in taking a case from the pleading stage through trial, CaseMap embodies the actual analysis or “thought process” of a litigator. Thus, in the law school setting, CaseMap serves not only as a practical tool to help students and faculty manage real cases, but also as an educational exercise that teaches a law student how to truly "think like a litigator."
Why is CaseMap an essential tool for law school clinics?
· CaseMap provides a way for the clinical professor to easily manage and keep track of the work being done on their cases;
· CaseMap allows the clinical professor to monitor the work each student is contributing to a case, making it easier to evaluate the skill and progress of individual students;
· CaseMap facilitates the transition of ongoing cases to incoming clinical students, allowing new students to quickly get up to speed on the status of a case by reviewing the "case map" created by their predecessors;
· CaseMap helps students learn how to organize and analyze critical case information like an experienced litigator, making them better prepared for the world of real practice;
What are the other litigation tools that are being offered free to law schools along with CASEMAP?
TimeMap:
TimeMap is a timeline graphing tool used to graphically depict and analyze the timeline of facts and evidence uncovered throughout the litigation workflow.
TextMap:
TextMap is a transcript summary tool that’s designed to work with CaseMap. It provides a searchable database of electronic transcript files from depositions and other proceedings.
NoteMap:
NoteMap is a dynamic, user-friendly outlining tool used to create and edit outlines. Its simplicity and versatility makes it the ideal tool help law students create course outlines that they can develop and edit with ease over the course of a semester.
Your Speaker:
Jacquelyn Inserra, Esq. is the Director of LexisNexis Litigation Services, and a former litigator with 8 years experience in complex, commercial litigation. For the past two years, she has trained law faculty, students and lawyers all over the country to use CaseMap and other legal software applications. She will be happy to visit your law school to conduct a CaseMap presentation for interested faculty.
In recent months, developers have introduced several useful Firefox extensions for legal research. In this session, we will explore a number of law librarian recommended add-ons in the following areas: citation, clip & copy, search, language and library-related.
We will specifically focus on three legal citation tools:
- Zotero, which helps authors collect, manage, and cite research sources;
- CiteGenie, which automatically creates Bluebook formatted pinpoint citations when copying from Westlaw or LexisNexis; and
- Jureeka!, which turns legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to free, online source material.
Libraries continually reinvent themselves to new generation of users. The question is: How can your 20th Century library and staff use new technological tools to show your library’s vitality when you have little or no budget?
This challenge is one that can be successfully faced and overcome using Camtasia. With Camtasia you can show your students, faculty, attorneys and other patrons how to use databases, books, videos and other technology that resides in your library before they even set foot within your library’s physical space. Camtasia produces HD quality videos for the web and other mobile devices.
This program will show how one can use Camtasia in a variety of situations by showing: uses of print and electronic sources, uses of IM Chat and uses of in-house staff training. This program’s presenters will walk participants through the creation of a Camtasia video and show how it can be successfully used within your library.
The casebook method is ubiquitous in legal education. Just as ubiquitous is the lack of solid educational / learning theory supporting the casebook method. The unique needs of today's computer-integrated law student demand a re-thinking of effective teaching and learning strategies. This seminar will explode some of the myths surrounding the supposed effectiveness of the casebook method using a Learning Sciences perspective, and suggest valuable and innovative solutions regarding Computer-Based Teaching Strategies.
Speaker referred to this 1992 article by Susan M. Williams ...http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/396859059-38036135/content~content=a785041697~db=all~order=page
Audience: All
Technical Level: Low
MediaNotes provides instructors with new ways to efficiently use video and audio recordings to improve skills learning in the classroom by facilitating the use of digital recordings for self-evaluation, feedback, class presentations and other instructional purposes. These instructional activities are supported by MediaNotes’ ability to virtually segment digital recordings into discrete events which can be labeled, classified, annotated, linked to other video segments, and then played back in various combinations. MediaNotes was developed at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and is being distributed by CALI without charge to professors, lecturers, librarians, other staff and students at law schools who belong to CALI. Professor Farmer will describe the use of MediaNotes in a number of different skills courses and demonstrate various ways MediaNotes can be used to improve skills instruction. Recommended for skills instructors and IT/AV support staff.
Larry C. Farmer
Professor of Law
Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
farmerl at law dot byu dot edu
An interactive and multimedia presentation detailing teaching techniques and strategies for educating today’s law student through the use of cheap and readily available videoconferencing technology. While most videoconferencing codecs provide excellent video, audio, and data transfer capabilities, they require a significant amount of material and tech support at both ends of the operation. Making use of web-based tools, including webconferencing, voice over IP, and similar tools, we can provide information and resources for budget strapped law schools. We will demonstrate how a variety of programs can be used, sometimes singly and sometimes in tandem to respond to several teaching scenarios. We will discuss strategies, techniques, and highlight the use of skype, sight speed, polycom pvx, adobe connect, and other available tools as well as provide real world examples that you can take back to your law schools. Presented by: Miguel Bordo, Media Services Manager, Duke Law Deb Kinney, Video Conferencing Specialist/Media Coordinator, Duke Law
Law school faculty are not always receptive to introducing Electronic Education (Distance Learning) into the law school curriculum. This presentation focuses on what you can say to convince your faculty to try distance learning within a course, or as a stand-alone course. Professor Robert Flowers will focus on the faculty-side and Professor Ellen S. Podgor will look at the administration-side.
With today's economy, moving away from in house hosting of services can be a life saver. Hosted or "cloud based" services can be brought up quickly with very little overhead, some are even free!
Aside from Google Docs, which is becoming more and more popular there are many tools available in the "cloud" that can benefit law IT. My intention is to present and discuss hosted services for document collaboration, file storage, and distance education. Some of the hosted services that I intend to discuss specifically are Drop Box, Adobe Connect Pro, and Adobe Buzzwords. These services and others are helping to reduce our overhead and giving the people we serve a better IT experience.
Also, I will be discussing how these hosted services are not only easier in the short term but how they enable us to be more agile or "mobile" with our technology for the future.
The general principle of holism is that the whole is more valuable than the sum of its parts. What does it mean to situate academic computing into the library in a holistic way? We will explore how librarian and instructional technologist collaborations have reshaped the way each position has functioned in the past and is offering new ways of working more effectively.
Together, this team provides a unique package of services that are tailored to meet individual student and faculty needs and preferences. We will also examine the specific methods with which instructional technologists and librarians can work together to achieve the goal of providing services that bring authenticity to the institution’s many great resources and learning objects in ways that facilitate more meaningful understanding and knowledge sharing among its constituents. The collaboration allows us to support learning and instruction by leveraging and synthesizing our distinctive skills and knowledge of research sources and academic technological discovery tools. We will discuss our practical mapping approach for managing decision making, triaging the service supply chain, and capturing information on user preferences.
We will illustrate our process with examples of services that demonstrate the power of a team of professionals with different skills and training but a shared mission of supporting faculty teaching and student learning.
Please Join AppointLink as we walk through the life of an individual Law School Portal User as they move from Admitted Student to Alumni and become an Employee of the school. On this journey we will visit issues such as Identity Management of user groups and the association to a role based online community. We will explore identity workflow issues and online forms for managing user access. Along the way we will visit various departments such as Career Services and Registrar as well as sites for Law Library and Student Organizations. Lastly, we follow the Law School User as they utilize AppointLink’s latest software components such as Library study room reservations, Instructor office hour reservations, and the Weekly Docket for announcements, events, and RSVP. Please join us for an exciting look at the life of a law school user and bring your best comments and questions. See you there!
AppointLink Leverages Technologies such as: Identity Management Solutions - Novell’s Nsure and e-dir, AD, LDAP and Microsoft SharePoint Moss 2007 - Portal, LMS, Exam Distribution, Online Evaluations, Office Hour Scheduling, Study Room Scheduling, Docket Communication, and Student Seating Charts
Friday
Last summer we migrated from computers to WYSE terminals in our lab. In this session we will review our experience with some how-to, how much info. Our goals were to reduce costs via future hardware requirements, greener technology, less tech support, etc. Our experience has been that it is working with a few minor bugs here and there. We have 2003 Server running on a VM using VMWare.
The Global financial crisis has been discouraging legal researchers and practitioners from accessing high-cost databases such as Westlaw and Lexis. On the other hand, internet legal research provides great benefits to researchers in that it is free or less expensive than Westlaw and Lexis. The necessity of teaching law students internet legal research skills is imminent.
In this session, the cons and pros of internet legal research will be discussed along with the effective ways of approaching and evaluating internet legal resources. Additionally, a garden variety of authoritative internet legal resources for different primary and secondary sources will be introduced.
Presenters:
Jootaek(Juice) Lee
Reference/Internal Instructional Services Librarian
University of Miami School of Law Library
Tel: 305-284-3419
Fax: 305-284-3554
E-mail: jlee1@law.miami.edu
Kumar Percy Jayasuria
Associate Law Librarian for Patron Services
Georgetown Law Library
Tel: 202.662.9151
E-mail:kumarj@law.georgetown.edu
Building a custom social network for your Current Students has many benefits. Using a tool such as Ning allows for easy in-house development. Ning also allows for departments, students, and the community to interact and contribute within the site. In this presentation we will go over the basics of using Ning. We will also discuss various rollout strategies for introducing the site to your community.
NCCU School of Law has had tremendous success with the faculty adapting and embracing technology. Currently over 90% of the faculty uses technology for instructional purposes. This session will discuss the technology environment at NCCU and hear from faculty about their usage of technology to include, classroom capturing solutions, clickers, smart classrooms, group study rooms,etc. IT and faculty have become more like partners in the deployment and usuage of technolgy. This session will discuss this partnership as the basic tool for change.
The presentation would demonstrate how we built an in-house application to help Hofstra Law School professors enter and manage their final grades against various different administrative grade curves. The application allows for anonymous student grading, on-the-fly curve GPA and grade frequency calculations, and administrative exclusion (i.e. excluding an LLM student from the overall curve of the class). The program comes complete with an administrative dashboard for Academic Records staff, printable reports, Excel exports, and various record sorting options.
This user-friendly application is an easy way for faculty to enter in raw scores and final grades, anonymously, into their course's appropriate grade curve. The new application has also made the process of promptly collecting/processing appropriate and accurate faculty grades a increasingly more streamlined process.
This LIVE session will introduce the audience to a ‘customized’ delivery of WSU Law School Twen LEX 7501 class (prof Mateikis’ labor law) via a combination of traditional means (class lectures, assigned readings) and a multitude of push technologies: Westlaw Watch, WestCheck, Westlaw customized search page, TWEN RSS feeds, Google tools, Innovative catalog page, WorldCat customized lists/bibliographies, class podcasts and videocasts, and USB customized Firefox (portable).
National TWEN course "CALI 2009-Teaching with Cloud & Flash Computing" open for everybody
PRESENTERS:
Prof. William Mateikis
WSU Law School
(313) 577-0508
eb9894-at-wayne.edu
Librarian Michael Samson
WSU Law School Library
(313) 577-6184
ad4092-at-wayne.edu
At last year's conference (http://wiki.cali.org/calicon08/index.php?n=Sessions.412) I demonstrated how Internet-savvy users and organizations could enlist anonymous collaborators online to help make legal research materials freely available. This presentation expands the inquiry to consider whether crowdsourcing tools can aid in the dissemination of historical records and, of particular interest to law faculty, legal scholarship. There are both normative and financial reasons to pursue such "crowdsourced" efforts. The normative reasons revolve around fostering transparency and democratic legitimacy and fulfilling the university's public service mandate. The financial reasons are still more compelling: opening up efforts to archive information to public participation is a way to distribute among the broader internet community at least a portion of the costs that might otherwise have been borne by the originating user or organization alone. I will use two examples drawn from Wikisource, an open-access library of public domain (or freely licensed) works, to illuminate the power of "crowdsourced" efforts to archive and distribute historical and scholarly works. First, I will highlight the efforts of the Wikisource community to digitize, and make available in full text, the earliest volume of the United States Statutes at Large, a work not freely available anywhere else online. Second, by way of "walking the talk," I will discuss my recent experiment in disseminating my own legal scholarship by the same means, yielding a product that seems superior in a number of respects to more familiar large-scale scholarly repositories such as SSRN.
Virtual Whiteboards, Information Displays, Podcasting, Content Management Systems... Is it too much and how much does it cost? Come join us as Rutgers Law - Camden discusses how the only limit is your imagination.
Rutgers Law - Camden will discuss its various IT projects including our CAMS "system" for automated podcasting, our LIDS "system" for Information Displays (we have dozens!) and our Virtual Whiteboards (utilizing commodity hardware). All of these projects were done with very little funding. Come see and judge the results for yourself. Tom Ryan Director of Information Technology Tim DiVito Web Developer
Ensure Section 508 compliance for your multimedia. A hands-on, step-by-step practical primer on adding closed captions and transcripts to videos and audio using open-source tools.
Tools that will be introduced:
- MAGpie Media Access Generator (captioning tool)
- JW FLV player (embed video in web pages)
- SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer (video conversion utility) (download)
...and some suggestions on transcription services.
“CaseMap”: Attend This Session and Get FREE CaseMap Software For Your School, a $5 Starbucks Card, and a Chance to Win Bose Acoustic Noise-Cancelling Headphones!!
Attend this session and you will leave with more than free coffee cards and prizes. You’ll learn all about a cutting-edge, case analysis tool called “CaseMap” that is used by 100’s of top law firms around the country. LexisNexis is now proudly offering law schools FREE access to CaseMap so that faculty and students can enjoy the benefits that law firms have enjoyed for years. CaseMap is already being used by law school clinics all over the country to help manage their caseloads and teach students about the importance of technology in today’s practice of law. Similarly, professors who teach legal research and writing and other skills-oriented courses are integrating CaseMap into their programs because of the key advantages it offers for both faculty and students.
Law school faculty look to their IT professionals to make them aware of new software that can help them teach or enhance the educational experience of students. CaseMap offers all of that and more, and it’s FREE! Don’t miss this opportunity to introduce your school to CaseMap. They will thank you for it.
What is CaseMap?
CaseMap is a powerful yet simple case analysis tool that provides lawyers with an efficient way to organize and analyze all of the critical information in a case.
Easy Organization and Analysis of Case Information: The “Case Map” created by the user serves as a central repository for all of the information gathered in the case. With CaseMap’s easy- to- use spreadsheets, each category of case information has its own place, i.e., the legal issues, cast of characters, key facts, documentary evidence, and relevant legal authorities. More importantly, CaseMap’s linking feature allows the user to identify and evaluate the relationships between and among these critical pieces of information. For example, a legal issue in the case can be easily linked to the specific facts, documents and legal authorities that support it.
Similarly, the “reporting” feature allow the user to capture their analysis in customized reports that can help to jumpstart motions for summary judgment, exhibit lists, witness lists, etc.
CaseMap, however, is more than just a practical tool for analyzing and managing case information. It is also valuable, pedagogical tool. By systematizing all of the critical tasks and analytical steps involved in taking a case from the pleading stage through trial, CaseMap embodies the actual analysis or “thought process” of a litigator. Thus, in the law school setting, CaseMap serves not only as a practical tool to help students and faculty manage real cases, but also as an educational exercise that teaches a law student how to truly "think like a litigator."
Why is CaseMap an essential tool for law school clinics?
· CaseMap provides a way for the clinical professor to easily manage and keep track of the work being done on their cases;
· CaseMap allows the clinical professor to monitor the work each student is contributing to a case, making it easier to evaluate the skill and progress of individual students;
· CaseMap facilitates the transition of ongoing cases to incoming clinical students, allowing new students to quickly get up to speed on the status of a case by reviewing the "case map" created by their predecessors;
· CaseMap helps students learn how to organize and analyze critical case information like an experienced litigator, making them better prepared for the world of real practice;
What are the other litigation tools that are being offered free to law schools along with CASEMAP?
TimeMap:
TimeMap is a timeline graphing tool used to graphically depict and analyze the timeline of facts and evidence uncovered throughout the litigation workflow.
TextMap:
TextMap is a transcript summary tool that’s designed to work with CaseMap. It provides a searchable database of electronic transcript files from depositions and other proceedings.
NoteMap:
NoteMap is a dynamic, user-friendly outlining tool used to create and edit outlines. Its simplicity and versatility makes it the ideal tool help law students create course outlines that they can develop and edit with ease over the course of a semester.
Your Speaker:
Jacquelyn Inserra, Esq. is the Director of LexisNexis Litigation Services, and a former litigator with 8 years experience in complex, commercial litigation. For the past two years, she has trained law faculty, students and lawyers all over the country to use CaseMap and other legal software applications. She will be happy to visit your law school to conduct a CaseMap presentation for interested faculty.
Meeting starts at noon to give you time to grab your lunch.
The importance of information technology for the legal profession is beyond question. The panelists in this session will examine the history of technology in law to generate an argument for what students should know about technology in order to function well in today's legal environment. Building on that argument, the panelists will present, on the basis of their own experiences, an idealized course as a set of modules that expose students to that set of information and those skills needed. There will be ample time for discussion. Co-presenters are Wayne Miller, Ken Hirsh and David Whelan.
Libraries and law schools have been using multimedia technology for years and new multimedia tools including hardware and software keep coming up. There is an increasing need for law libraries to employ these new tools since our patrons love to view multimedia content on-line.
This session will first introduce the hardware for capturing audio, video and image including digital camera, camcorder, recorder as well as digital camera based book scanning devices. Methods of integrating and rendering the multimedia content in a web interface will be discussed. The speaker will share his experiences and solutions on developing Flash-based players and acquiring audio/video content for the players in a law school environment.
Flash started out as an animation tool, but has matured into a platform for delivering engaging experiences both on and offline. This session will cover the tools and technologies that together makeup the Flash Platform.
- Flex/Actionscript 3 for building Rich Internet Applications
- AIR for deploying your applications to the desktop
- Lifecycle Data Services for real time data synchronization and messaging
- BlazeDS for communicating between Flex and non-Adobe backend technology
- FlexBuilder and Flash Catalyst for designing and developing for Flex Applications
- ColdFusion for accessing your data from Flex.
- Flash Collaboration Service for real time collaboration and voice over IP.
We’ll also look at Rich Internet Application examples and discuss how the technology applies to higher ed.
I have asked for co-presenters with this topic. My presentation would describe the issues facing law school help desks and commonly found problems and solutions including work flow management software and the point of contact. I could begin by describing what is front line support. This will lead into definitions like what is a help desk, point of contact and flow of requests through the help desk and managing customer relationships. I would then discuss work flow management tools like Heat, Remedy, ServiceDesk and others. I think we could end with SLAs and response time management.
With budgets shrinking, there is more to be done with less. Based on my eight years of experience working for a Value Added Reseller (VAR) of enterprise hardware and software, I will share the many negotiating strategies that have repeatedly proven successful at getting the most for the least.
E-book readers have been a revolution waiting to happen for years. There have been e-book devices before, from Sony, iRex, and others, but the Amazon Kindle (and its kid brother, Kindle for iPhone) may be the first application of this technology to gain a sizable market. This session will demonstrate how the new Kindle 2 and Kindle for iPhone can be used effectively in law schools, and will suggest technical enhancements and changes in publishers' practices necessary to make the next generation of e-book readers an essential tool for lawyers, law students, and faculty.
Building online legal research guides using a Webhosted solution from Springshare. Can Libguides be used for the law library community to build shared legal research guides.
Whether it's organizing student events or matching each course with the right venue and best possible schedule, every law school has its own unique set of challenges. In this session we will explore the tools that are available for matching faculty & their courses to classrooms, reserving facility resources, scheduling service & support, and more generally how we manage to keep (nearly) all the parties involved happy.
Mohyeddin Abdulaziz
Arizona Law
The Case School of Law has been developing an efficient, cost-effective way to distribute via the web videos related to student skills training. The current solution allows AV staff or faculty to record videos with an easy-to-use camcorder and simply drag and drop the resulting file for almost immediate posting on the web: no file conversions, re-encoding, scripting, etc. An overview of the system will be provided, including the development process and the technologies and methods used (camcorder model, embedded Flash player, etc.). The session will conclude with a discussion of pro's and con's, planned feature enhancements, and other possible applications of the system.
Historically librarians have viewed themselves as information gatekeepers. But as users come to expect information ubiquity, librarians must learn to unleash, aggregate, and even create content and push it out by creating their own applications. Open source technologies offer the opportunity for librarians build useful web applications. Presenters will show real library applications created with open source technologies and the tools used to create them. You'll see how complex web design problems, technological limitations, and economic realities were overcome to deliver useful and awesome web apps.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ILLNESS, AARON IS UNABLE TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE. INSTEAD THIS SESSION TIME WILL BE USED AS AN "UNCONFERENCE" SESSION. ANYONE CAN ATTEND, ANYONE CAN SUGGEST A TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION. (UnConference on Wikipedia)
The last two years, Professor Amos Guiora called upon the IT staff at the S.J. Quinney College of Law to assist with making his yearly counter-terrorism simulation become 'more real'. This session will talk about simulation for instruction and the role of technology in making it work for the students. We'll discuss what we found, how it worked, how we integrated and utilized social media, and ideas for future classroom simulations and technology.
Watch the 2009 'Behind the Scenes' simulation video on ULaw.tv
Watch the 2009 Counter-terrorism video on ULaw.tv
This session will introduce both grizzled Unix veterans and iPod-wearing upstarts to the brave new world of distributed, service-oriented, scalable web sites. In the past few years, there has been a dramatic shift in web server technology. The venerable LAMP stack now has serious competition from a new stack built on radically different foundations:
- On-demand scalability (Amazon EC2, Google App Engine)
- Non-relational databases (CouchDB, HBase, Amazon SimpleDB)
- Rich clients (JavaScript, Flash)
- Web Services (ReST)
- "Agile" web frameworks (Rails, Django)
- Distributed data processing (Hadoop)
This session will begin with a rapid survey of the technologies that make up the new web stack, followed by an in-depth discussion of how departments can use them to save money while providing better service to clients.
As teaching institutions, our websites are an interface between us and our students, learning tools, and one of our best methods of promotion.
Today’s students can “shop” online for schools, and your site can either draw them in or turn them away. Does your site give the impression that you don’t care, or that you are behind the times? Or does it tell the world that yours is a professional, modern, relevant institution? Today more than ever, your website is your identity.
This session will discuss how to maximize your website’s effectiveness, including some dos and don’ts for site design, good usability, deployment and maintenance, and how to keep your visitors coming back.
Several high-profile reports urge the legal academy to reorganize the standard law school curriculum so that it develops knowledge, skills, and values progressively. The LexisNexis Skills & Values Series is an innovative response to these calls for reform. The Skills & Values Series is a series of subject-specific, practice-oriented books supported by a robust online platform. Each text has an online component that is designed to deliver case file material in a rich media environment, link to relevant online resources, provide a Wiki space for collaboration among professors, provide blogging capabilities, and include self-assessment features for students. Each book in the series is designed to challenge students to apply the substantive content from their course in a way that will help them see what that doctrinal area looks like to a practicing lawyer. The multi-media component of the series is designed to appeal to professors who are looking for effective teaching tools to actively engage their millennial students.
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Every year, law students pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to commercial legal publishers for bulky printed statutory and regulatory supplements. Much of that material is not copyrighted and is available for free on the Internet, but law professors continue to require expensive commercial supplements and have done little to make statutes and regulations available in digital form to their students. In the spring of 2009,Professor Bradford created a digital statutory and regulatory supplement for use in his two federal securities law courses. Those materials will soon be available nationwide for free. In this program,Professor Bradford will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital statute books, how he put thematerials together, the problems he encountered, and the student reaction.
Also in this session, Inspired by CALI's eLangdell project to provide open source course materials, frustrated by the editing of cases in current constitutional law casebooks, and enabled by the release by public.resource.org of a repository of U.S. Supreme Court opinions with nary a hint of licensing restrictions, Professor Wiseman decided to discard the casebook and to provide his students with online edited cases.
In this session, Professor Wiseman, who has now taught constitutional law for three semesters without a casebook, will demonstrate how his online edited cases are superior to cases in casebooks. He will also explain (if asked) how it all works.
Video is traditionally the medium used in law schools as the tool for providing instruction. The issue or dilemma has always been its accommodation of textual based visual content that communicates complex legal concepts. With the advancement of media technologies there are no longer limitations and the transformation requires a significant level of creativity and individual motivation. This presentation will discuss strategies and techniques that can be used to design with multimedia tools that transform legal concepts, such as the rule against perpetuities, into instructive presentations. Concurrently, these works can effectively communicate of a visual design that informs and entertains not only law students but also of a larger audience. The presenter will demonstrate how these works enable students to understand and remember concepts that are difficult to teach through conventional methods. Discussion will also relate to the expanding role of multimedia in legal pedagogy through screening examples of student projects. The program will focus on the conceptualization process that includes meetings with faculty, analysis of the instructional need, development of the idea or concept (treatment), the production and final refinement of a product. Project management factors such as task prioritization, budget, time and labor will be briefly covered.
Results of a survey on Educational Technology Practices in US law schools will be presented and discussed.
Deans, Faculty, library and IT staff struggle to define and support the use of educational technologies. Some law schools have an Educational Technology Specialist, while others rely on traditional IT or library staff to fulfill this role.
But what is educational technology? Is it email, iTunes U and Twitter? Does it include helping faculty research and develop courses using course management software (i.e. Blackboard), clickers, SSRN, Adobe Acrobat, Camtasia, Turnitin and mind maps? Who is responsible for training law school faculty and students on these technologies? What qualifications does someone need to be an educational technology specialist in a law school? We will present the results of a special Educational Technology survey on these issues and more.
Session goals include:
1) Exchanging info on current practices, including job descriptions, qualifications, staffing scenarios, etc. We would like to hear from institutions that are pleased with their Ed Tech staffing, those who are looking to make a change and those just getting started and looking for more information.
2) Potentially creating a more formal group designed to focus issues surrounding Educational Technology in law schools.
This session will explain our experience in teaching practical aspects of law through the simulation of a virtual law firm where students interact with an attorney. The session will also show and explain how our virtual Practicum classroom works.
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (Open University of Catalonia) is an only virtual distance learning university based in Barcelona, Spain. Learning at the UOC is oriented to responding to the needs of the student and takes into account the demands of the professional environment and technological and social evolution.
Can iPhones and iPod Touches be more than just a distraction, but actually help in Legal Research? This session will look at different strategies and applications that can help turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a serious research tool.
A copy of the paper that the presentation is based on can be viewed here.
The Slides from the presentation can be viewed here.
Combine three law school professors/instructors, 20 students, the Jessup Moot Court competition, international and foreign legal research, a hybrid online/face-to-face course and several instructional technologies in a blender and what do you get? Coursecrafting!
Coursecrafting is a mashup facilitating law school course innovation. Learn how the course evolved and from the instructor experiences, course materials, instructional technology and several student surveys you will learn what worked, what didn't work and what will be done differently during this rethinking of legal research and skills training experience.
Recording and posting of classes at UTLaw has always been limited to an small oasis of make-ups and “special circumstance” requests from Student Affairs. This Spring, for the first time, a 1L Property class has had every class recorded and posted to a secure blog site. This pilot program explores the potential for a culture shift, the mechanics of collaboration and the pain of planting in the desert. Installation was done by our hands. The solution executed in collaboration with our College of Communication. Inspiration comes from a team of technology folks, a lone professor and willing students.
Topics covered will include:
- Why pictures are an important marketing tool.
- Marketing using Facebook.
- Impact of photos on marketing.
- Visual Methods.
- Color is an Asset.
Immediately following, will be a question and answer period.
Glass display cases have long been a stock feature of libraries; in the academic law library, we often use them to exhibit our faculty’s scholarly work to increase awareness in the law school and academic community. But legal treatises and journals are rarely eye-catching. And at a time when reading, writing and publishing are all rapidly evolving into digital formats the whole concept of showing books in glass display cases seems so… 20th century. At the Barco Law Library we've created a digital display kiosk that is an electronic showcase for faculty scholarship. The striking display is located in a prominent spot in the building and it highlights many faculty accomplishments, not only their publications but also other academic accomplishments such as participation in symposia, testimony before Congress, works in progress, and media interviews as experts in their field. In this session we will demonstrate how you too can create a digital display to publicize your faculty. We'll discuss the technical requirements, the software and skills needed to create the display, the maintenance and update requirements, and how to gather information for the display and present it in such a way as to capture the attention of your intended audience.
To build, buy, or be left behind? While it sounds Shakespearean, it doesn't have to be rocket science. Using a common-sense approach, we'll show you what questions to ask yourself when faced with the build or buy decision. It's about more than just software and budgets, and we'll include examples from Mercer of things we've built, things we've bought, and times when we've probably been left behind.
