MediaNotes Users Group
About
MediaNotes Users' Group
MediaNotes provides students who are learning new skills an easy way to receive objective feedback on their recorded performances.
- Visit the CALI MediaNotes homepage to download MediaNotes, or get an overview of its features.
- Use the forums in this space to ask and answer questions, share best practices, and learn more about supporting law students' skills development.
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Why can't I add new events, notes, or tags? (the buttons are grayed out)
If MediaNotes is not giving you the option to add new events, notes, or tags, but you are able to view an existing project's video and tags, you are probably using an expired trial version of the program. To activate these features, please get a license (free for all CALI members). You'll receive a license key by email. Start up MediaNotes and to to the Help > Register MediaNotes... menu option: 
Copy and paste the key and submit the form.
Where can I get basic help for using MediaNotes?
The official MediaNotes manual is full of basic help and instructions:
- For Instructors
- Getting Started
- Creating and Tagging Events
Resources
MediaNotes Best Practices : Teaching
This guide gathers best practices for teaching using MediaNotes. For formative research, use examples, and background on MediaNotes, see New Technology Meets an Old Teaching Challenge: Using Digital Video Recordings, Annotation Software, and Deliberate Practice Techniques to Improve Student Negotiation Skills
MediaNotes Best Practices : Technical Deployment
In this guide, we'll share some best practices for deploying MediaNotes as a technology, including ideas for video recording, file transfer, logistical management, and training.
Official Documentation
The developers of MediaNotes, Blue Mango Learning Systems, offers extensive help files. Check these resources first:
Articles
The importance of practice
Anyone familiar with Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers would be familiar with the contours of David Brook's op-ed piece in the NY Times today. This paragraph jumped out at me for its relevance to MediaNotes:
Students recording themselves at Albany
Darlene Carillo has posted a great little piece about students at Albany Law School recording their own practice, for use in MediaNotes.
Read more about it at the Technology at Albany Law blog.
