The Center
for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
2006 Conference for Law School Computing | |
Wednesday - June 14, 2006 | |
| 3 - 1 | Bahia Mar Hotel Lobby |
| 3:00-7:00pm | Early Registration AT THE BAHIA MAR HOTEL - NOT THE LAW SCHOOL |
| 5:00-7:00pm | Chicken Fingers, Eggrolls, Hot Dogs and Veggies and Soft Drinks and Socializing |
| 5:00-6:00pm | •• Speakers and New Speakers Meeting/Orientation (Mayer) |
2006 Conference for Law School Computing | ||||||
Thursday - June 15, 2006 | ||||||
| 11 - 5 | LR 2: 140 | LR 1: 141 | LR 3: 169 | LR 4: 170 | LR 5: 171 | |
| 8:00-9:00am | Buses from Hotel leave at 7;15a and 8:00a Florida Breakfast - something fruity and crunchy and healthy along with coffee and stuff | |||||
| 9:00-10:00am | •• Opening Keynote: Rip, Mix, Learn (Mayer) | |||||
| 10:00-10:30am | Break - Re-warmed coffee, pineapple cores, alligators-on-a-stick and other snacks. | |||||
| 10:30-11:30am | •• Podcasting Law School Courses: The Classcaster Experiment (Johnson, Ogden, Cohen) | •• Dean's Eye View of Technology in Law Schools (Harbaugh) | •• Creating Firefox Kiosks with GNU/Linux (Hurley) | •• Personal Knowledge Management & Collaboration Strategies for Legal Researchers & IT Staff (McCue) | •• Inside LSAC: Past, Present and Future (Bachman) | |
| 11:30am-1:00pm | Lunch | •• CALI Editorial Board and CALI-Authors Meet 'n' Greet Over Lunch (Quentel) | ||||
| 1:00-2:00pm | •• Into the Future with Classroom Technology (Liebert, Andrade, Harvey) | •• Legal Writing and Research Library Workshop Modules: Teaching Legal Bibliography Using Instructional Technology in Innovative Ways (Collins, Collins, Collins) | •• Vegas, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere and Motion- Review of consumer video editing software (Ginzburg, McBeth) | •• Mixing It Up with Forensic Science, Technology & Law: The National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law (Botluk, Zucker) | •• Aspen Studyware (Mixter) | |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Break - something lite like candy bars and granola (Sponsored by Thomson/West) | |||||
| 2:30-3:30pm | •• Faculty Engagement /Technology Adoption: Round table discussion (Baia) | •• Law Students Write About Law Libraries (Hudson) | •• Automated Media (Ryan) | •• Podcasting and Blogging for Legal Education (Masters, Masters) | •• Why does it pay to repair your student’s laptops for free (and how can you afford to do it)? (Johnson) | |
| 3:30-4:00pm | Break - later afternoon energy break - red bull and other caffeine drinks (Sponsored by Thomson/West) | |||||
| 4:00-5:00pm | •• Laptops in the Classroom - Pros and Cons (Laughlin, Laughlin, Smith-Butler, Smith-Butler) | •• Legal Bibliography Management and Student Writing Programs (Zhou) | •• Dealing in Clusterfication (Nagy) | •• Bull Session (Hirsh, Bruce, Hirsh, Chapman, Johnson, Ryan) | •• TWEN in Your Classroom? (Adelman) | |
| 6:00-8ish | Buses leave Nova at 5:15p Plenary Dinner - At the Bahi Mar, bar open 6:30, dinner at 7:00 (Sponsored by Examsoft) | |||||
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Friday - June 16, 2006 | ||||||
| 11 - 5 | LARGE LECTURE: 200 | LR 1: 141 | LR 3: 169 | LR 4: 170 | LR 5: 171 | |
| 8:00-9:00am | Buses from Hotel leave at 7;15a and 8:00a Hurricane Breakfast - MREs, bottled water, WWII K-rations - Duck and Cover | |||||
| 9:00-10:00am | •• Keynote: Professor James Boyle, Center for Study of the Public Domain (Boyle) | |||||
| 10:00-10:30am | Break - Coffee, more coffee, some more coffee, juice, water, (did I say coffee?) (Sponsored by Thomson/West) | |||||
| 10:30-11:30am | •• Got Gamers? Law Students and Videogaming (Brown, Grohman) | •• Legal Journals and Digital Publishing (Miller, Moore, Joergensen) | •• Concord Law School's Learning Management System and Flash Classroom Chat (Burnett, Gold) | •• IT leadership skills (Molina) | •• Lecture Capture as a Critical Learning Platform for Law Schools (Jones) | |
| 11:30am-1:00pm | Lunch - Deli Ostrich Burgers, Potatoes Au Kiwi, usual stuff (Sponsored by Aspen Publishing) | •• Documentary Filmmaking in the Law School Classroom (Miller) | ||||
| 1:00-2:00pm | •• Creating and Teaching a Law Practice Management Course – Going Beyond The Norm (Adkins) | •• Podcasting for Fun and Non-Profit (Milles) | •• Search Engines (Bruce) | •• VitalSource (Poole) | •• Donuts or Stars: Centralization v. Decentralization in IT Management (Ranard, Durbin) | |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Break (Sponsored by BNA) | |||||
| 2:30-3:30pm | •• Comparing Two Models of Distance Education (Podgor) | •• Collection Development through Data Harvesting (Joergensen) | •• Implementing tools for collaboration across boundaries (Nelson, Phillips) | •• Collaborative Building Scheduling (Kurpiewski) | •• Mixing Digital Forms for Learning and Teaching (Nickles, Hummel) | |
| 3:30-4:00pm | Break (Sponsored by BNA) | |||||
| 4:00-5:00pm | •• Life of a Law Student:: Student Podcasting (Wehneman) | •• WEX - An Online Legal Encyclopedia (Bruce) | •• Cost Effective Videoconference and Web Collaboration Service in an Integrated Solution (Millar) | •• “Just say No to Outsourcing” – Developing an in-house info system to take care of your daily needs (Abdulaziz, DeFrain, Kealey, Knoll, Wagenheim) | •• Computer-Based Testing – Focusing on the Administrator (Winneg) | |
| Evening | Buses leave Nova at 5:15p Dinner on Your Own | |||||
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Saturday - June 17, 2006 | ||||||
| 7 - 5 | LARGE LECTURE: 200 | LR 1: 141 | LR 3: 169 | LR 4: 170 | LR 5: 171 | |
| 8:00-9:00am | Buses from Hotel leave at 7;15a and 8:00a Big Breakfast (No, not from Mickey Dee's) - eggs, bacon, pancakes, omelets or something like that. | |||||
| 9:00-10:00am | •• Teaching Lessons from CALI Lesson Authors (Quentel, Starnes, Charlow, Biernat, Richards) | •• Growing Pains and Gains - Online Course Evaluations (Abdulaziz, Balquiedra) | •• USB and Custom Boot Disks (Chu, Garcia) | •• Rip, Mix, Learn and the Goals of Storage Management (Dawson, Munsterman, Mangum) | •• 'Piping hot content' from your library via CALI ClassCaster IntraBlogs (Samson) | |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break | |||||
| 10:30am-11:30am | •• Cool Tools (Dawson, Munsterman) | •• The Social Web and Higher Education (Drury, Lenger) | •• Outsourcing Can Work For You (Russell, Russell) | •• Law School Business Continuity and Disaster Preparedness (Mayer, Chapman) | •• ACES2 – The new tool for your admissions office from LSAC (Lowry, Sabol) | |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Break | |||||
| 12:00pm-1:00pm | •• Effective Use of Technology in the Classroom (Taking Technology to the Edge) (Beckman) | •• Pimpin' CALI Ain't Easy!! (Evans) | •• High Performance for Law School Websites (Masters, Masters) | •• If Your Communications Skills are Like a Country Music Song, You Done Got Problems (Sun) | •• Packaging Information - Keeping Content Disentangled from Presentation (Daniels) | |
| G'Bye | Buses leave Nova at 1:15p We are arranging buses to the airport - contact lvmolde@cali.org SEE YOU NEXT YEAR IN VEGAS AT UNLV - William S. Boyd School of Law | CALI Board of Directors Meeting 1p-4:30p Room 229 (Faculty Terrace Room) | ||||
2006 Conference for Law School Computing |
Wednesday - June 14, 2006 |
[3,1] Wednesday - June 14, 2006 - 5:00-6:00pm / Bahia Mar Hotel Lobby / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Speakers and New Speakers Meeting/Orientation Audience: All Speakers Technical Level: Low This is an OPTIONAL meeting for all speakers. If you are a NEW speaker at the CALI Conference, we will talk about the event and the way to get the most out of your talk. This is also an opportunity to share ideas about future conferences. Grab some grub and find us in a corner of the hotel where we have setup early registration. There will be a sign there directing you to the location of this informal meeting. John Peter Mayer Executive Director CALI jmayer at cali dot org |
2006 Conference for Law School Computing |
Thursday - June 15, 2006 |
[2,1] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 9:00-10:00am / LR 2: 140 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Opening Keynote: Rip, Mix, Learn Audience: All Technical Level: Low What is Rip, Mix, Learn? It’s a metaphor for the way the digital and real world is evolving and how we use it. It’s having the web your way, and sometimes that’s the fastest of fast information food. All of the traditional information flows from main-stream media, institutional authorities, government, scholarship are affected by the RML notion that the static web of the early 90's and the one-way web of the early 00's is now the read/write web and the conversation-web of the present. This has particularly interesting ramifications for education. I will explore some of these ramifications with specific examples from recent insights in podcasting, electronic journals, blogging and electronic course materials and relate them to directions that I believe legal education is heading. John Peter Mayer Executive Director CALI jmayer at cali dot org |
[4,1] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LR 2: 140 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Podcasting Law School Courses: The Classcaster Experiment Audience: Faculty Technical Level: Low This presentation will include several speakers who participated in CALI's Legal Education Podcasting Project this past spring. Some of the faculty recorded their class lectures and others created weekly summaries for their students. One of the things that will be explored is the connection between podcasts, and more active learning experiences. We will also pose questions, and have a discussion about the following topics: What are the benefits of the in the classroom, live lecture or discussion, class expereince for our students, and are we gradually disaggregating the law school teaching system by providing other ways to learn and experience law school classes. Is this the wave of the future? Is the live class soon to be an anachronism? Are there other benefits for live classroom interaction in professional schools, in which students are taught the professional norms, culture, vocabulary and values of their area of professional study, and have the opportunity to interect with and learn from fellow students. Could some or all of these goals of benefits of graduate and professional education by provided through online learning, or various substitutes for a live class.
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[4,2] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Dean's Eye View of Technology in Law Schools Audience: All Technical Level: None requried Nova's Dean Harbaugh has been an avid proponent of technology in legal education for many years. In this session, he will discuss frankly why technology can be an enhancement to law school operations, education and administration. He will also offer advice and insight into how IT looks from the Dean's Office that will be valuable to you at your home institutions. Joseph D. Harbaugh Dean and Professor of Law Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center harbaughj at nsu dot law dot nova dot edu |
[4,3] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Creating Firefox Kiosks with GNU/Linux Audience: All Technical Level: Pretty Geeky Since our OPACs are essentially glorified web browsers, expensive, overpowered Windows machines could be replaced with a more secure, much less maintenance-intensive, and cost-effective (read: free) solution, making use of already available hardware. I will demonstrate how I built Web-browsing kiosks for our library OPAC machines using Firefox and GNU/Linux. The kiosk project is Live-CD based, and I will demo the kiosk as part of the presentation. The presentation will cover the following issues:
Michael Hurley Webmaster/System Administrator University of Connecticut Law School mike dot hurley at law dot uconn dot edu |
[4,4] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Personal Knowledge Management & Collaboration Strategies for Legal Researchers & IT Staff Audience: Faculty, Instructional Technologies, Leadership, IT Staff Technical Level: Middling The increasing volume of digital information that researchers' collect and create make the task of finding, capturing, organizing and eventually collaborating with digital data more difficult. Multiple silos of data (e-mail, files on hard dives, web documents and databases for example) exasperate the problem of finding digital information in a timely manner. Fortunately the tools for organizing and finding digital information have finally started to catch up with the large pools of data that we are collecting. Vannevar Bush was ahead of his time back in 1945 when he envisioned a device that would allow and individual to store "all his books, recoreds, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory." (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/194507/bush) Today we are very close to Bush's 60 year old vision. There is no one size fits all formula for how a researcher will optimally manage their data, but rather we will look at a number of tools researchers at our University have used separatly and in combination to manage data organization, searching and citation, as well as facilitate knowledge sharing. Some of the software tools we will look at include:
- Desktop search tools (Google Desktop & Windows Desktop Search)
The two major benefits that come from effective knowledge management and knowledge sharing are an increase in the speed and quality of the research being performed. Less time is spent looking for information that has already been identified, so that more time can be spend in analyzing and associating desperate pieces of information. Electronic tools can make possible collaboration between colleagues that in the past would have been difficult, if not impossible to do. A group of nine Law Professors at two Universities have used our some of our collaboration tools to successfully share research and collaborate in a way that would have been very difficult five years ago. Not all faculty and staff find every tool useful, but for some they present solutions to long standing problems.
Whether they realize it or not, most researchers are struggling with the mountains of digital data that they have accumulated during their careers.
If shown the tools available to them to find, capture and collaborate, our experience is that many, if not most, will start to use at least some of these knowledge management tools to move effectively manage and share their data.
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[4,5] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Inside LSAC: Past, Present and Future Audience: All Technical Level: Low Over the past 7 years, the Law School Admission Council has become the preeminent player in providing technology-based services to the law school admission offices. In its special position as a membership organization made up of the 196 U.S. ABA-approved law schools and 15 Canadian law schools, LSAC is not “just another vendor” but is an organization integral to establishment of these services. They are continually being asked to provide more services for law school applicants, law school admission offices and other related contingencies. During the fall of 2005, technology professionals from 135 law schools participated in four regional technology conferences which were hosted by LSAC. The topics of these conferences covered a general overview of LSAC but focused on their next generation admission services named ACES2. An update on ACES2 will be presented later on in this conference. This session will focus on what LSAC has done over the recent past, its plans for the next couple of years, and its strategic vision of the types of services that may be offered in the future. Bruce Bachman, Vice President of the Information Services Division and Chief Information Officer for LSAC will present the past, present and future. With an IT organization numbering over 100 people, Bruce will also be happy to share any insights and ideas that he has as a CIO in a company dedicated to law school services. So, bring your questions! Bruce Bachman VP, Information Services Division LSAC BBachman at LSAC dot org |
[5,5] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 11:30am-1:00pm / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP CALI Editorial Board and CALI-Authors Meet 'n' Greet Over Lunch Audience: CEB and CALI Authors Technical Level: How Low Can Deb Go? As in the past, we're having a combined meeting over lunch for members of the CALI Editorial Board and authors. We are meeting over lunch on Thursday, June 15th. Please pick up your lunch at 11:30 and bring it with you to the room for our meeting. We will start at 11:45 and go until 12:50 (when I suspect we'll be booted from the room for the 1 p.m. session). Agenda for our meeting: 1. Meet and greet - we've got a good turnout of authors and CEB members - get to know your colleagues 2. Show and tell - a demonstration of new features in CALI Author & clever things authors are doing in their lessons 3. Pain and gain - a discussion about reviewing lessons outside your area of expertise 4. Open discussion - I am looking forward to visiting with you all during the conference. Deb Quentel Director of Curriculum Development & Gen. Counsel CALI dquentel at cali dot org |
[6,1] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LR 2: 140 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Into the Future with Classroom Technology Audience: All Technical Level: Low with some Medium Our goal is to examine what is possible with classroom technology. What would an ideal classroom look like today? or 5 years from today? Classroom technology can be done on the cheap, but what would an ideal classroom look like (if cost were not a concern). We would use the University of Texas as an example of a cheap implementation, but one that still incorporates many interesting technologies, such as tablet pc's, ceiling-mounted document cameras, and central control systems. June Liebert Law Library Director and Asst. Professor John Marshall Law School, Chicago 8liebert at jmls dot edu Ray Andrade Legal Education Technologist Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center andrader at nsu dot law dot nova dot edu Michael Harvey Director of Technology University of Texas School of Law mharvey at mail dot law dot utexas dot edu |
[6,2] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Legal Writing and Research Library Workshop Modules: Teaching Legal Bibliography Using Instructional Technology in Innovative Ways Audience: Anyone Technical Level: Low Each year, the Legal Writing and Research faculty at Wayne State University Law School, a staff of five, introduce 200-250 students to the process of legal research and writing. The law librarians at the Arthur Neef Law Library work closely with the Legal Writing and Research (LWR) faculty to plan and present supplementary workshops that expose students to the materials they are expected to use to complete research assignments made in the first semester as well as an Appellate Brief in the second semester. Unfortunately, these workshops do not allow students the hands-on introduction or the one-on-one attention from librarians that students desire and librarians would prefer to make available. To provide more active learning in the use of library resources at WSU, the Director of the Legal Writing and Research Program, two law librarians and the library’s Applications’ Specialist sought and were awarded an Innovative Instructional Technology Grant by the Office of the Provost in Fall, 2005 to create Legal Writing and Research Library Workshop Modules (LWR-LW Modules). The project allows law librarians to provide bibliographic instruction in a manner that responds to student requests for individualized assistance using technology already available on campus. The Applications Specialist, an instructional designer, worked with the law librarians to assess user needs and to develop and deliver materials online made up of screen and document snapshots with voice over lectures to assist students in completing LWR assignments. Use of the Modules is also extended to the hundreds of non-law students on campus who take courses where legal research is necessary including Business, Education and Social Work policy courses as well as reference courses in the Library and Information Science Program. Interactive Modules were created under the grant on the following topics: Print Secondary Resources Computerized Indexes Federal Statutes Federal Cases Updating resources: Shepard’s and Key Cite State Statutes and Cases Free Online Legal Research In this session, Librarian, Lauren Collins, who wrote the grant proposal and spearheaded the resulting program, will discuss the grant process, chronicle the development of the Modules, and provide a demonstration of the finished product. Lauren Michelle Collins Library Director Duke University School of Law collinsl at nccu dot edu Lauren Michelle Collins Library Director North Carolina Central University School of Law collinsl at nccu dot edu Lauren Michelle Collins Library Director Wayne State University Law School collinsl at nccu dot edu |
[6,3] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Vegas, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere and Motion- Review of consumer video editing software Audience: Anyone Technical Level: Medium Barbara Ginzburg and Glen McBeth from Washburn University School of Law will give a hands-on demonstration of video techniques and common video editing software. These are commonly used for creating instructional videos. Barbara Ginzburg Classroom Teaching Technology Librarian Washburn University School of Law barbara dot ginzburg at washburn dot edu Glen McBeth Reference Librarian/Instructional Technologist Washburn University School of Law glen dot mcbeth at washburn dot edu |
[6,4] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Mixing It Up with Forensic Science, Technology & Law: The National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law Audience: CSI Fans Technical Level: Low This presentation will showcase the work of the National Clearinghouse for Science Technology and the Law at Stetson University College of Law (NCSTL). In 1999, the National Institute of Justice reviewed the status and needs of those who work with forensic sciences, concluding that the end-users of forensic sciences – lawyers & judges – needed more education in those sciences, and that forensic scientists needed more training in law, specifically how to be effective expert witnesses. NCSTL was built to bridge the gap between these disciplines, providing a place for “one stop shopping” for law, science and technology information. Perfect timing given the growing interest in CSI! NCSTL provides a free forensics research database containing references to resources intersecting science, technology, crime scene investigation and the law. The database is cultivated by law students and researchers at Stetson Law School. Forensics researchers, such as lawyers, judges, scientists, educators and members of the general public, can investigate topics ranging from arson investigation to voice analysis. The database offers bibliographic information for legal and scientific resources, as well as references to popular literature, organizations and educational opportunities. Developing distance education programs is also a large part of NCSTL’s program objectives. Focus is on the importance of effective planning and development of distance learning programs and includes:
Attendees will:
Diana Botluk Director of Research Stetson University College of Law dbotluk at law dot stetson dot edu Susan G. Zucker Director of Technology & Distance Education Stetson University College of Law szucker at law dot stetson dot edu |
[6,5] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Aspen Studyware Audience: All Technical Level: Low Laptops are everywhere in law school, but until now there has been no software that specifically does what law students do. Aspen Studyware is workflow software designed by a law student for every part of law school -- class prep, exam prep, Socratic debate, research and writing, and more. Aspen Studyware gives students a reason to brief cases and take good notes by making law school studying more productive. Tested in the classroom, one professor has already declared that students who used the software did better in the course than those who did not. It will be appearing at your law school this academic year. Come and see a demonstration of what the students in your class will be doing with Aspen Studyware. Learn more at http://lawschool.aspenpublishers.com. Richard Mixter Director of Digital Product Development Aspen Publishers richard dot mixter at wolterskluwer dot com |
[8,1] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LR 2: 140 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Faculty Engagement /Technology Adoption: Round table discussion Audience: All Technical Level: Low Law School’s employ faculty for the primary roles of: teaching, researching, and producing publications. However in addition to these responsibilities it is clear faculty are expected to participate in committees, advise student, develop curriculum, organize scholastic activities, attend events, adopt technology, act as a liaison, continually self educate in their respective fields, attend and present at workshops/conferences, and play an active role in the community. This round-table discussion is targeted to focus on our institutions organizational structure, culture, departmental priorities, and reward systems that shape the roles of each faculty member (at least prior to tenure). It is clear that many challenges emerge when a dis-connect occurs between these systems and the drive to engage faculty in technology adoption. Put another way, faculty roles are changing and the review, promotion, and tenure system is not. I am hoping we can move close to answering the following questions: •What are the current organizational structures, cultures, department priorities, and reward systems at your institution? •How can they be changed to incorporate a technology adoption component directly in each system and promote/motivate faculty participation? (i.e. time, funding, staff, tenure, etc…) •How can we increase faculty participation in professional development activities to better prepare them for technology pedagogy? •How can engaged faculty, students, and support staff work together as a change agent to promote organizational change? •How do we evaluate teaching and learning in adoption initiatives and who is accountable? Patricia L Baia Instructional Technologist Albany Law School pbaia at mail dot als dot edu |
[8,2] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Law Students Write About Law Libraries Audience: All Technical Level: Low Based on my recently published article, this session will give an overview of what law students are writing in their web logs about law libraries. The article can be found at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/newsletter/25_2/Blawgs.htm I will present the information as a PowerPoint, that will provide much more than is contained in the article. Comments about library facilities, personnel, books, computers, furniture, etc. etc. This presentation should be informative and amusing. Additionally, I will preview some of the research I have been conducting into law professor web logs, too. Approximately 45 minutes for this presentation. Robert W Hudson Faculty Services Librarian Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center rhudson at stu dot edu |
[8,3] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Automated Media Audience: All Technical Level: Caffeinated Podcasting/Classclaster/Streaming Media Everyone is familiar with the technology. Want to provide it now, and do so in an automated way? Come listen and see what Rutgers is doing to provide a truly robust automated solution.
Tom will showcase Rutgers automated podcast/streaming video solution on a budget solution. He will discuss the hardware used, installation practices, backend software necessary and demo the software as well.
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[8,4] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Podcasting and Blogging for Legal Education Audience: Anyone Technical Level: Low to Medium So your faculty are interested in podcasting. You can hand them a personal digial recorder and point them to CALI's FAQs or create a local infrastructure of support. Elmer single-handedly recorded over 200 hours of AALS sessions (close to 120 sessions) and wrote the software that drives the Legal Education Podcasting Project in which over 30 faculty created 1000+ course podcasts. The last part of this session will be a discussion of how to make your school podcast-friendly and even integrate your podcasts with Apple iTunes. Elmer Robert Masters Director of Internet Development CALI emasters at cali dot org Elmer Robert Masters Director of Internet Development Emory University School of Law emasters at cali dot org |
[8,5] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Why does it pay to repair your student’s laptops for free (and how can you afford to do it)? Audience: Help Desk Technical Level: Kinda Techie The University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law has developed a unique program to assist students with their laptop computer needs. The UMKC School of Law does not require our students to own a laptop, though most students do. This meant that our IT personnel spent a considerable amount of their time helping students with computer problems on a wide variety of laptops. However, the administration made a strategic decision not to impose a mandatory laptop requirement on our students. Instead, we developed the UMKC Laptop Clinic, which was designed not only to benefit our students and IT personnel, but also to embrace our school’s strategic vision.
Ostensibly, the purpose of the clinic is to make life easier for our students by providing the tools they need to keep their laptop running properly, and by allowing them to spend their time productively rather than on distractions. The clinic is manned by an undergraduate computer student, which means we exploit local university resources, and our IT personnel spend their time on more immediate computing problems. The Laptop Clinic Technician is responsible for diagnosing basic computer problems, imaging computers, installation of hardware/software, and running virus software in conjunction with spyware programs. The typical technician has extensive working knowledge of laptop computer systems and wireless capabilities in a Windows XP (SP2) environment. The ability to interact well with law faculty, staff and students is a requirement of this position, as is a good customer-service attitude. This session will discuss the initial development of the clinic, actual implementation, and the results over the past year. You will leave the session with the information you need (1) to decide whether this is a program you need and that would work at your school, and (2) to present a proposal to your dean.
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[10,1] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LR 2: 140 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Laptops in the Classroom - Pros and Cons Audience: All Technical Level: Hardhats required Now that we have built out our infrastructure to support wide spread use of computers and wireless access to the network in the classrooms....should we turn it off? Does the presence of laptops sometimes distract students (or the students in the next seat) from what the instructor is saying? Is it up to the instructor to decide....or the institution? This session may post more questions than it answers, but the discussion promises to be lively. Greg Laughlin Law Library Director Samford University Cumberland School of Law glaughli at samford dot edu Greg Laughlin Law Library Director University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law glaughli at samford dot edu Lisa Smith-Butler NEED TITLE Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center lsbutler at charlestonlaw dot edu Lisa Smith-Butler NEED TITLE Charleston School of Law lsbutler at charlestonlaw dot edu |
[10,2] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Legal Bibliography Management and Student Writing Programs Audience: Anyone Technical Level: Low This program will focus on the software that manages the legal resources that the students find for their legal writing papers. It is based on my experience of using CiteIT for my advocacy's Appellate Brief writing. Effectively managing the resources for law students can take much of the hassle out of the writing process, and can help students to focus on the content first and then on the citation style later. This is also consistent with the trend of moving from paper heavy to online environment, effectively using technology for the services of legal writing. Don Zhou Head, Technical Services William Mitchell College of Law dzhou at wmitchell dot edu |
[10,3] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Dealing in Clusterfication Audience: Networkers Technical Level: Deep Geek The session will deal in transaction clustering primarily for serving web pages. I will discuss the initial stages of what building a cluster is supposed to accomplish and how to determine organizational need. We will look at deciding on an operating system, and what packages are available to ease the transition. I will explain in broad terms, using the Linux Virtual Server project as an example, how to design and implement a cluster. I will go into detail about load balancing, redundancy and fault tolerance. We will discuss the administrative overhead associated with maintaining data in parity on the cluster and give examples on how this might be accomplished. I will give live demo of a functioning cluster showing how it load balances and imitate a failure to show redundancy. I will briefly describe how other services might be applied to the cluster model. There will be time at the end to take questions... or eat pie. Daniel Nagy Sys Admin, Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School dn56 at cornell dot edu |
[10,4] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Bull Session Audience: All Technical Level: Whatever Looking for a chance to participate in a BS session without having to tap someone on the shoulder? Tired of waiting until evening by the bar to have your say? Join Tom Bruce, Ken Hirsh, Cyndi Dean, Tom Ryan, Ben Chapman and Elmer Master for a freewheeling session on issues of the day. Rants will be limited to give everyone a chance to speak their mind. Kenneth J Hirsh Director of the Law Library and Information Technology University of Cincinnati College of Law ken dot hirsh at uc dot edu Thomas Bruce Director, Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School trb2 at cornell dot edu Kenneth J Hirsh Director of the Law Library and Information Technology Duke University School of Law ken dot hirsh at uc dot edu Ben Chapman Assistant Dean for Information Technology Emory University School of Law ben dot chapman at emory dot edu Cyndi Johnson Assistant Dean for Information Technology University of New Mexico School of Law johnson at law dot unm dot edu Tom Ryan Director of IT Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Camden tomryan at camlaw dot rutgers dot edu |
[10,5] Thursday - June 15, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP TWEN in Your Classroom? Audience: Law Faculty and Librarians Technical Level: Low This session will showcase how TWEN (The West Education Network) facilitated resource sharing between instructors teaching the same Legal Bibliography course at Georgia State University College of Law. Attendees will be able to:
Elizabeth G. Adelman Interim Director State University of New York - Buffalo School of Law eadelman at buffalo dot edu |
2006 Conference for Law School Computing |
Friday - June 16, 2006 |
[2,1] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 9:00-10:00am / LARGE LECTURE: 200 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Keynote: Professor James Boyle, Center for Study of the Public Domain Audience: All Technical Level: Low Learning By Design and other Fallacies: What Behavioral Economics, Serendipity and Procrastination Can Teach Us About Educational Technology Behavioral economics has taught economists what non-economists had always claimed. People do not act as the rational actor model predicts. But behavioral economics teaches something more. There are predictable patterns in the ways that human behavior diverges from rational actor predictions. We routinely overvalue potential losses and undervalue potential gains. We rely on heuristics that "frame" problems in a manner that leads to well-understood skewing in our decisions. And so on. In his keynote address, Professor Boyle will argue that there are equivalents to these behavioral patterns in the ways we think about educational materials and technology: systematic biases in the ways that we understand (or faily to understand) their potential and to plan for their future. In particular, we systematically overestimate our ability to predict the uses of technology, and systematically undervalue the productive power of collective, common or "open" resources. Knowledge of these two cognitive biases, he argues, provides useful rules of thumb in designing new educational systems; if we cannot overcome our biases, we can at least learn to compensate for them. James Boyle William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law Duke University School of Law boyle at law dot duke dot edu |
[4,1] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LARGE LECTURE: 200 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Got Gamers? Law Students and Videogaming Audience: All Technical Level: Low In the book, Got Game (Harvard Business School Press 2004), the authors concluded that extensive video-gaming experience has significantly affected the generation of young adults now entering the business world, i.e., they are better addapted to business than the earlier generation, but they present management problems to older managers who don't have similar video-gaming experience. Do law students have similar video-gaming experience? Could law students be afffected in the same way? Could such law students present a similar challenge to "older" faculty and staff members who lack similar video-gaming experience? Professors Ron Brown and Joe Grohman surveyed law students at Nova Southeastern University and on the CALI website searching for some of the answers. They will present and discuss their findings. Ronald Benton Brown Professor of Law Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center brownr at nsu dot law dot nova dot edu Joseph M. Grohman Professor of Law Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center grohmanj at nsu dot law dot nova dot edu |
[4,2] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Legal Journals and Digital Publishing Audience: All Technical Level: Low While post hoc collections of journals like Hein Online and ad hoc collections of working papers like SSRN continue to grow, legal journals are by and large still only print enterprises. A great opportunity to share information freely and provide better, more usable and future-protected information is being squandered. The panelists will address why digitally publishing journals is in everyone's interest, what technologies promise the most good for preserving born-digital information, and other considerations and caveats in digitally publishing journals, with reference to the real-life experiences at two law schools. Wayne Miller Assistant Dean for Academic Technologies Duke University School of Law wmiller at law dot duke dot edu Gary Moore Assistant Dean for Information Systems Hofstra University School of Law lawgpm at hofstra dot edu John Joergensen Librarian Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Camden jjoerg at camlaw dot rutgers dot edu |
[4,3] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Concord Law School's Learning Management System and Flash Classroom Chat Audience: All Technical Level: Low Concord Law School is a business unit of Kaplan, Inc., which is one of the Washington Post Companies. Concord is a fully online law school that has been in existence for 8 years. Over that time, its Learning Management System (LMS) has evolved to encompass all aspects of the law school experience including synchronous and asynchronous learning, web based registration, exam and quiz taking, assignment submission, grading, community building, faculty/student communication, virtual library resources, and career services. Recently, the synchronous classroom piece of the LMS has been revamped using Macromedia Flash Technology. Craig Gold, Professor and Associate Dean for Technology and the chief architect of the LMS and Steve Burnett, Associate Dean for Business Development will do a live demonstration the Flash based synchronous classroom as well other aspects of the Concord experience. Attendees will be able to participate in the synchronous classroom using their own computers. Stephen Burnett Vice President of Auxiliary Business Concord Law School SBurnett at kaplan dot edu Craig Gold Associate Dean for Technology Concord Law School craig_gold at concord dot kaplan dot edu |
[4,4] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP IT leadership skills Audience: All Technical Level: Suits not required A good technology officer must make the institution more efficient and meet the expectations of community members and related parties through the adoption and intelligent use of technology. This session discusses what the technology officer must be, have, and do to succeed. It is geared to current and aspiring IT officers, library directorsa and deans supervising the technology function, and librarians, faculty, and staff members interacting with the technology officer. The speaker will draw from the experience of well-known technology officers and industry publications to paint an accurate portrait of a successful technology officer. Pablo G Molina CIO Georgetown University Law Center molina at georgetown dot edu |
[4,5] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 10:30-11:30am / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Lecture Capture as a Critical Learning Platform for Law Schools Audience: Anyone Technical Level: Low The innovative use of rich media can improve student retention and learning outcomes when used as a tool to augment traditional teaching techniques. Students have long been recording their lectures for on demand replay. Law schools interested in providing rich media lectures or lecture podcasts throughout their program struggle to find a method that scales affordably without requiring a change to trusted teaching techniques or requiring staff to manage the system. This session will cover how University of Arkansas-Little Rock has scaled their use of rich media lectures for mock trial review, presentation rehearsal and practice of courtroom skills. Next, Anystream will define the success criteria for any lecture capture initiative – including podcasting – whether in one classroom or across the law school. Jason M. Jones Computing Services Specialist University of Arkansas - Little Rock School of Law jmjones at ualr dot edu |
[5,5] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 11:30am-1:00pm / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Documentary Filmmaking in the Law School Classroom Audience: All Technical Level: Low Note from John Mayer - This is special presentation taking place DURING lunch from 11:45a - 12:45p, so grab your food and bring it to the classroom for this presentation. This session would explore how academics can employ documentary techniques to investigate and reveal the impact of legal reforms on the lived experiences of individuals and communities. We would discuss our experiences designing and implementing a curriculum that enables law students to conceive, research, shoot, edit and complete short (20 min.) documentary films exploring the impact of increasingly harsh immigration law reforms on individual immigrants and immigrant communities. The presenters have taught (for the past two years) a course to law students at the Univ. at Buffalo School of Law that engages them in the use of digital video to explore a hot, new area of law: the increasing convergence of crime control and immigration law. We would like to discuss the pedagogical and practical issues surrounding the use of digital media and documentary techniques in the context of a course like this. Using documentary as a tool for both research and activism, we helped law students to "find their unique voice" in describing and critiquing recent immigration law reforms. The films our students completed have been shown at academic conferences about immigration law, and workshops on pending Congressional immigration legislation. Teresa Ann Miller Professor of Law State University of New York - Buffalo School of Law tmiller at buffalo dot edu |
[6,1] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LARGE LECTURE: 200 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Creating and Teaching a Law Practice Management Course – Going Beyond The Norm Audience: All Technical Level: Low Alumni wished they had it; recruiters demand it; students need it; faculty fight it. How can you successfully develop a practical course in Law Practice Management and meet the needs of all? Combining both practice management and business management into a single full semester course is one way. The University of Florida Levin College of Law has been teaching this course successfully for four years. It is always a full class. Andy Adkins Director, Legal Technology Institute University of Florida College of Law adkins at law dot ufl dot edu |
[6,2] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Podcasting for Fun and Non-Profit Audience: All Technical Level: Low Dozens of law schools are experimenting with podcasting as a delivery mechanism for distributing classroom lectures and special events--i.e., repackaging pre-existing content (not that there's anything wrong with that). Exploring the creative potential of podcasting as a medium of expression opens up opportunities to reach new publics in new ways. Find out how and why Jim tries to make law librarianship entertaining. James Milles Professor of Law State University of New York - Buffalo School of Law jgmilles at buffalo dot edu |
[6,3] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Search Engines Audience: All Technical Level: Moderately Technical, but not past the ken of most Search engines help you find stuff, and customized search engines configured with your collections in mind are great tools for helping your audience and directing its attention toward important things on your web site. This presentation will discuss the architecture of search engines, and various means of using and configuring them so as to enhance the usability of your site. The SWISH-E open-source search engine will be used as the main source of illustrations, though most if not all of the techniques that will be discussed can be carried out in most popular software, and the discussion of indexing capabilities and search techniques will be sufficiently generic as to apply to most who are running their own engines. Moderately technical, but not past the ken of most. Thomas Bruce Director, Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School trb2 at cornell dot edu |
[6,4] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP VitalSource Audience: All Technical Level: Low Digital content is in demand. Call them ebooks, digital books, or electronic files - as laptop use continues to increase at law schools - students have begun to search for digital content that is portable, searchable, and reasonably priced. VitalSource has been working with both Thomson West and Wolters Kluwer for over two years to develop these types of content solutions for law students. This lecture will explore feedback gathered from both students and faculty about digital content, the current challenges involved in delivering the content to students, and the features and benefits of the current version. John Poole Director of Sales VitalSource jpoole at vitalsource dot com |
[6,5] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 1:00-2:00pm / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Donuts or Stars: Centralization v. Decentralization in IT Management Audience: All Technical Level: Low This session explores the issue of centralization (a.k.a. outsourcing) v. decentralization of IT and provides real life examples of what works and more importantly, when to proceed with caution. Are most IT services now a commodity that can be centralized with little impact to service levels or does in-house decentralized hardware, software, and people make for a unique synergy that simply works better every time. You don’t want to reinvent the wheel for services like email, file storage, network printing, web hosting, admin system, help desk, active directory, etc., if you can find lower cost, higher quality alternatives that work in a law school environment. Don’t be caught off guard, join the discussion on this culturally unique decision that explores the advantages and disadvantages of several centralized options that you may soon be facing at your law school. Deb Ranard IT Director Capital University School of Law dranard at gmail dot com Michael P Durbin Director Information Technology St. Louis University School of Law mikeintroy at yahoo dot com |
[8,1] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LARGE LECTURE: 200 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Comparing Two Models of Distance Education Audience: All Technical Level: Low Distance education comes in many different styles. In addition to synchronous and asynchronous methods, there is also the medium used for transmitting the class, such as video-conferencing, web-based, or a combination of both. Each of these present different advantages and disadvantages. This session will look at the considerations one should use in deciding what is the best distance learning method to use for a class. The focus will be on synchronous video-conferencing and asynchronous web-based courses. Ellen S. Podgor Associate Dean of Faculty Development & Distance E Stetson University College of Law epodgor at law dot stetson dot edu |
[8,2] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Collection Development through Data Harvesting Audience: Library folks Technical Level: Low Much is being written lately about both the long term risk to libraries in relying on vendor supplied online resources, and about the loss of valuable government information due to the GPO relying on online availability. In this session, a solution to both problems will be presented.
The presenter will show how the Rutgers-Camden Law Library is developing and maintaining an electronic collection of government document materials through the use of wget, and other simple tools that can automate process of collection development. Practical discussion will include: 1. selection of materials; 2. the use and features of wget; 3. techniques for automating the collection process. |
[8,3] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Implementing tools for collaboration across boundaries Audience: All Technical Level: Low In the last 12 months, the Marquette Law School Media and Technology group has adopted several software tools and several administrative practices to promote collaboration. Technologists provide the foundation and framework, librarians provide the subject expertise, and professors reap the benefits. We are using both commercial software products and free web services. We have combined social bookmarking & RSS to identify and distribute relevant content. We have also turned our blog into a collaboration point for technology staff with different responsibilities and reporting structure. Products discussed: Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Corporate Communicator, del.icio.us, furl.net, airset.com, Wordpress, RSS Bandit Steve Nelson Instructional Technology Librarian Marquette University Law School stephen dot nelson at marquette dot edu Dax Phillips Web Manager Marquette University Law School dax dot phillips at marquette dot edu |
[8,4] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Collaborative Building Scheduling Audience: All Technical Level: Low Scheduling your Law School's classes, events, exams, make-ups, meetings, etc. can be a daunting task. While there are many commercial solutions for handling room and building scheduling, they are expensive, and often times inflexible. Efficient building wide scheduling requires a multi-user, permissions based approach in which specific departments and users can be delegated the rights to schedule assigned rooms and calendar categories. It also requires a public web based interface where faculty, staff, and students can view the entire school schedule at a glance. An intuitive and responsive web based interface utilizing the latest web technologies, is just icing on the cake. The University of Pittsburgh School of Law has developed, in-house, a flexible scheduling solution which addresses these requirements. Come for a demonstration of the application and a discussion of the underlying implementation. Matthew Kurpiewski Director of IT University of Pittsburgh School of Law kurpiewski at law dot pitt dot edu |
[8,5] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 2:30-3:30pm / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Mixing Digital Forms for Learning and Teaching Audience: All Technical Level: Low Law schools serve both students and teachers. So, for law schools and for West, ripping, mixing, and learning necessarily expands to include teachers using digital forms to structure (to some extent) what and how they want their students to study and learn. This presentation mainly demonstrates a mix of digital forms available to teachers for teaching. Steve Nickles C.C. Hope Chair in Law and Management Wake Forest University School of Law snickles at wfu dot edu Justin Hummel Manager, Product Development Thomson-West justin dot hummel at thomson dot com |
[10,1] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LARGE LECTURE: 200 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Life of a Law Student:: Student Podcasting Audience: All Technical Level: Low As an incoming 1L, Neil Wehneman had a simple (and some would say naive) goal: capture as much legal knowledge as he could, and make it freely available to as many people as possible, both as to cost and copyright. The Life of a Law Student podcast was born. Life of a Law Student relies on Fair Use to assimilate into audio the public domain caselaw along with knowledge gained from textbooks, professors, hornbooks, and other sources. Since that first day of class, Life of a Law Student has been listened to by thousands of current and incoming law students across the country, run into friction from some existing law professors, and been featured in the New York Times. The podcast is currently focused on bringing on additional students in order to "franchise" the idea across law school campuses and across the world. This session will focus on the policies and goals of Life of a Law Student, the Fair Use argument underlying the methodology, and how this type of podcast fits into a holistic legal education experience. Neil Wehneman Student University of Cincinnati College of Law cali at wehneman dot com |
[10,2] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP WEX - An Online Legal Encyclopedia Audience: All Technical Level: Low WEX is an ambitious attempt to collaboratively develop an encyclopedia-like resource for law novices. This is not an easy course to steer -- collaboratively-developed open encyclopedias like Wikipedia have sparked a lot of controversy, and it is far from clear that they are an unalloyed good thing. This session will discuss WEX, and the idea of open legal encyclopedias in general, from a number of different viewpoints. First of all, do the potential benefits of such a resource outweigh the drawbacks? Second, what happens at the intersection of wiki-like software (such as MediaWiki, which WEX uses) and educational legal content? After all, WEX works as a species of content-management and authoring system that can aggregate little bits of new, used, and repurposed information in new and interesting ways. This session will be of interest to wiki geeks, online-resource developers, and others interested in collaboratively developing legal-education materials (including library materials like pathfinders and research guides). Thomas Bruce Director, Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School trb2 at cornell dot edu |
[10,3] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Cost Effective Videoconference and Web Collaboration Service in an Integrated Solution Audience: All Technical Level: Low Demonstrating a Cost Effective Global Service for delivering high quality distance learning that replicates all of the dynamics present in live face-to-face meeting or classroom over the public Internet. Law Schools can now provide fully interactive Classes, Seminars, CLE to students and Attorneys anywhere in the world. The Vemics LiveAccess™ Solution combines the best features of videoconference and web collaboration services into a single, simple to use integrated product. Participants can connect with a PC or Laptop running Windows XP, from any high speed Internet service such as cable modem, DSL, WiFi, and Corporate Broadband. An affordable archive and web retrieval service allows Law Schools to record sessions (classes, seminars, mock trial, virtual guest lecturers, more) and to provide a valuable service that can also generate incremental revenue. Access to this web service is password protected and can add value to the law school’s content library. The Cannon Financial Institute won the prestigious LOLA Award for best online synchronous video-based training course at Online Training 2005 using the Vemics LiveAccess™ Solution. Robert Millar Vice President, Business Development Vemics rmillar at vemics dot com |
[10,4] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP “Just say No to Outsourcing” – Developing an in-house info system to take care of your daily needs Audience: All Technical Level: Low At the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law we still use Westlaw, Lexis, Raiser’s Edge, Admit-M, examSoft and other major applications. But there are many other important needs and functions that are critical to the mission of our school that we simply cannot find anywhere to buy or, if available, they don’t quite meet our needs, too expensive or suffer from any other deficiency. We will explain our design concepts and development strategies and tools that allowed us to build easy to use applications that all have the same “look and feel” to meet our daily needs such as: Catalog Request (for prospective students) Alumni Forum (browser interface to Raiser’s Edge) Forums (our main class communications platform for posting class materials, class communications, etc.) Class/Room scheduling/events calendar Facebook/seating charts Career Services – Job Postings/OCI Evaluations/Exam numbers/Ranks/exam, paper e-filing Faculty Directory/Publications/Scholarship/myEDM (Internet network storage access) College Publications Student email/info Search engine Library functions and highly dynamic websites Mohyeddin Abdulaziz Director of Information Technology University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law abdulaziz at law dot arizona dot edu Erica DeFrain Educational Technology Librarian University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law erica dot defrain at law dot arizona dot edu Paul G Kealey Internet Developer University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law kealey at law dot arizona dot edu Garnette Knoll Support Systems Analyst, Sr. University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law garnette at law dot arizona dot edu Lisa Wagenheim Web Editor University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law lisa dot wagenheim at law dot arizona dot edu |
[10,5] Friday - June 16, 2006 - 4:00-5:00pm / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Computer-Based Testing – Focusing on the Administrator Audience: All Technical Level: Low For years, Software Secure has provided law schools our Securexam software to enable students to use their own computers to take tests without being able to cheat. While continuing to mature and evolve the core security software, Software Secure has recently turned to the task of making computer based exams easier to administer. To date exam software has benefited students, but at times has added additional work for those responsible for administering exams or managing school IT. The work Software Secure has done in this area has manifested itself in “PlanetSSI” a web-based system that removes the friction of exam administration and more closely connects the students with faculty and administration. After all, computers should make things easier, not more complex. Software Secure will also provide a peek of its newest product offering, Securexam Remote Proctor, which extends our Securexam testing technology in to the true distance learning market. Using video, audio and fingerprint authentication technology, Securexam Remote Proctor enables schools to offer testing anytime from anywhere with the same academic integrity of an on-campus, proctored exam room. Securexam Remote Proctor represents a tremendous boon for any program thinking to expand into the distance learning environment. Douglas Winneg President Software Secure, Inc, dwinneg at softwaresecure dot com |
2006 Conference for Law School Computing |
Saturday - June 17, 2006 |
[2,1] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 9:00-10:00am / LARGE LECTURE: 200 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Teaching Lessons from CALI Lesson Authors Audience: All Technical Level: Low Authoring a CALI lesson, whether as part of a CALI Fellowship or alone, requires faculty to approach, and to think about, the material that makes up their courses differently. The Family Law Fellowship started in January 2006, and the Fellows are still immersed in the lesson-writing process. To date, only four of each Fellow’s lessons have been written (and re-written). From this unique vantage point, four of the team's Fellows will share their observations and insights about the impact of authoring on both their teaching and their writing. Deb Quentel Director of Curriculum Development & Gen. Counsel CALI dquentel at cali dot org Cynthia Lee Starnes Professor Michigan State University College of Law starnesc at law dot msu dot edu Andrea Charlow Professor of Law Drake University Law School andrea dot charlow at drake dot edu Len Biernat Professor of Law Hamline University School of Law lbiernat at hamline dot edu Janet Richards Cecil C. Humphreys Professor of Law University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law jrichrds at memphis dot edu |
[2,2] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 9:00-10:00am / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Growing Pains and Gains - Online Course Evaluations Audience: All Technical Level: Low In the Spring of 2003, Fordham Law School started conducting its student course evaluations online. This proposed session will outline the development of the online evaluations application which was created in-house, the requirements and how the online process has affected the course evaluations. The session will also present the advantages and disadvantages of online student course evaluations compared to hand-written ones. The sessions will also include unexpected effects, good and bad, as Fordham Law School continues to conduct its online course evaluations on its seventh semester. Mohyeddin Abdulaziz Director of Information Technology University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law abdulaziz at law dot arizona dot edu Marianna Balquiedra Web Administrator Fordham University School of Law mbalquiedra at law dot fordham dot edu |
[2,3] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 9:00-10:00am / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP USB and Custom Boot Disks Audience: Tech Staff Technical Level: Medium Each year, during the start of every new academic year, we will have a new flock of law students (150 < class size < 250) zooming by with newer and nastier computer problems. They can come in a form of a virus, trojans, worms, and spywares, Sasser worms or Vundo trojans anyone? Or an uplifting blue screen of death awaits you with a message informing you Windows registry hive is missing or corrupted. Or preparing for your worst nightmare yet, hardware-related issues – RAM, hard drive, and even motherboard. Juggling with limited time and resources, what is your best option for fixing everyone’s computer, getting them on the network, installing all necessary software at the same time for large group of people? The answer is to streamline the process, and to automate the procedure. In this session, we will discuss how to create the tool that allows you to streamline the computer repair, setup, and application installation process. We will focus our discussion on the two wonderful technology inventions: BartPE and AutoIt. BartPE, Bart’s Preinstalled Environment, is a bootable live Windows CD/DVD. BartPE support many plug-ins to add applications, drivers or tools. For example, you can add the Firefox plug-in to make the browser available on the CD. We widely deploy the Windows XPE plug-in to make the BartPE closer to Windows XP, making it BartXPE. AutoIt is a BASIC-like language for automating Windows GUI and general purpose scripting. The two combined to make a perfect duo to automate most of your administrative tasks. Wayne Chu Technology Support Associate Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University Wayne dot Chu at asu dot edu Edward Garcia NEED TITLE Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University edgarcia at MAINEX1 dot ASU dot EDU |
[2,4] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 9:00-10:00am / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Rip, Mix, Learn and the Goals of Storage Management Audience: All Technical Level: Medium With the number of natural diasters that we have seen lately diaster recovery has become a very huge buzz word in the tech community. However many only think of the servers, many do not think of the workstation recovery. In addition this session will introduce/refamiliarize the audience to various tools and software available for backing up workstatsions. It will include why one product may be better than another in ceratian environments. At the Washington College of Law, Greta Dawson and Korin Munsterman inplemented backup solutions for workstations. Not all workstatsions are backed up with the same devices or software. Some of the solution is outsourced some in in house. Solutions at WCL include 2nd copy and Connected by Iron Mountain. More disk space please! Data must be preserved, it must be easily accessible, it must never be deleted. This presentation will explain how Duke Law School went from "out of disk space" headaches to SAN city. The strategy of storage management is not just at a technical level, it is a conception in that the capacity and structure of data is a critical aspect for every network system. This is about the manageability of network files from MS Word, Powerpoint to databases, images and Email archiving. Duke Law School went from ripping out several individual servers, to learning about SANs and mixing a closet full of CPU's into an organized mounted rack. Data in virtually every organization continues to grow and storage decisions have become a vital role in security, recovery, and resource management. Greta A Dawson Asst Director of Technology/Network Services Mgr American University Washington College of Law greta at wcl dot american dot edu Korin Munsterman Director, Office of Technology American University Washington College of Law korin at wcl dot american dot edu Becky Mangum Network/Systems Manager Duke University School of Law mangum at law dot duke dot edu |
[2,5] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 9:00-10:00am / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP 'Piping hot content' from your library via CALI ClassCaster IntraBlogs Audience: All Technical Level: Samsonites Using RSS feeds to distribute news, files, podcasts, and videocasts is one of the hottest new ways law school libraries can capitalize on the CALI Classcaster for promoting their resources and services. Informing legal researchers/patrons in real-time about premium level content and indispensable legal information that can be found and is readily available in your library is quite easy once you start using one of the newest services provided by CALI to all its members: the ClassCaster server. Faculty, librarians and staff at all CALI law school members can now open accounts on the CALI ClassCaster and create real-time distribution channels for 'piping hot content’ from their units. This session will present WSU Arthur Neef Law Library's approach to 'piping hot content' to its law faculty, law students, law library and law school staff via several ClassCaster blogs and ‘IntraBlogs’ (ClassCaster blogs providing feeds to law library and law school Intranets)
This session will also present the collaboration between a law librarian and a law school faculty in producing weekly summary podcasts for the ‘Legal Education Podcasting Project (LEPP)’. A step-by-step overview of the hardware, software and ClassCaster account set-up will end the session.
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[4,1] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 10:30am-11:30am / LARGE LECTURE: 200 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Cool Tools Audience: Technical Level: Washington College of Law has developed or implemented some cool tools to meet various needs of our users. Korin Munsterman and Greta Dawson will show the tools they use for: surveying users, off-loading website content updates to the administrative offices, offering a means for committees to share documents and information, providing users with tips and tools, how to guard against viruses and spam, updating faculty webpages, RSS feeds and blogs, creating custom podcasts, promoting the work of the SBA, providing outline databases for students and Westlaw webinars, and more. We invite other schools to join us to show off the tools they use. People should contact Greta Dawson at greta@wcl.american.edu or Korin Munsterman at kmunster@wcl.american.edu if they would like to participate. Greta A Dawson Asst Director of Technology/Network Services Mgr American University Washington College of Law greta at wcl dot american dot edu Korin Munsterman Director, Office of Technology American University Washington College of Law korin at wcl dot american dot edu |
[4,2] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 10:30am-11:30am / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP The Social Web and Higher Education Audience: Low Technical Level: All Recently the web has shifted closer to Tim Berners-Lees vision of a collaborative web developed through community. Myspace, Blogger, Flickr, Technorati, and Wikipedia are applications that gain value through community interaction. Yet, for the most part, web sites of higher education have remained fixed, static repositories without much community interaction. The panel will argue that embracing the social web is important for institutions of higher learning that desire to enrich collaborative learning environments. Our panel will review what is known about the online habits of the next generation of law students; what characteristics of new social web applications are "hot"; and specific ways in which these characteristics can be integrated into legal education. We anticipate lots of time for discussion and examples from the audience. Nicholas Drury Web Services Manager Duke University School of Law drury at law dot duke dot edu Scott Lenger Web Editor Duke University School of Law lenger at law dot duke dot edu |
[4,3] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 10:30am-11:30am / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Outsourcing Can Work For You Audience: All Technical Level: Low Gordon Russell will present an overview of a model of outsourced Administrative package (Sonis), Email (using hosted solutions and beta GMAIL for the organization), Library ILS (using EOS web and IBM self checkout and referring URL technology), Jotspot to build a wiki internet service), Exam4 hosted solution for student exams. The presentation will exam what has worked and what has not, describe what has been hosted locally and how the school has made use of newer burstable T1 to interconnect the scattered building that the school is temporarily making use of while supporting a growing student body that will number 600 students by the fall of 2006 and a faculty and staff of over 60. Gordon Robert Russell Associate Dean for Library and Information Charleston School of Law gordan dot russell at lmunet dot edu Gordon Robert Russell Associate Dean for Library and Information Lincoln Memorial University School of Law gordan dot russell at lmunet dot edu |
[4,4] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 10:30am-11:30am / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Law School Business Continuity and Disaster Preparedness Audience: Anyone Technical Level: Medium Hurrican Katrina, 9/11, floods, ice-storms, flu pandemics, electrical outages...the list of possible ways that your law school may be shut down is long. This doesn't mean you have to lose an entire semester or endure major disruptions to your faculty and students' lives. CALI is proposing the creation of a Law School Disaster Preparedness Plan where two web servers will be hot and ready to go with a variety of pre-installed software that law schools can use in case of small and large disasters. At the very least, this can be a single location to get information out to your constituency and at the most, it can be a place to deliver educational content in the form of web pages, blog posts, podcasts and video so that you don't have to cancel an entire semester just because your building is unavailable for a couple of weeks. Ben Chapman and John Mayer will lay out the basic plan and then use the majority of the session to discuss details like what other services should be offered, how can schools pre-prepare for disaster and what are law schools willing to do about disaster preparation. John Peter Mayer Executive Director CALI jmayer at cali dot org Ben Chapman Assistant Dean for Information Technology Emory University School of Law bchapman at law dot emory dot edu |
[4,5] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 10:30am-11:30am / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP ACES2 – The new tool for your admissions office from LSAC Audience: All Technical Level: Low All Law school admissions offices have been using ACES to communicate and exchange data with the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) for the past 7 years and over 150 law schools have elected to use LSAC’s Admit-M product as their primary admissions database. Beginning in the summer of 2006 LSAC is merging these two products into a single next generation admissions system called ACES2. This session is an overview of the technical aspects of this next generation admission system and is an update to the ACES2 technical conferences LSAC held around the country in the fall of 2005. ACES2 will allow law schools to have a system which uses the latest technologies and advances, and which will serve as the launching pad for new services that can be provided by LSAC over the next 10+ years. The goals of the new system will be to merge ACES and Admit-M into one seamless application, to automate as much of the transfer of data as possible, and to provide easy access to data for admissions professionals in the office and on the road. Details will be given on ACES2’s interaction with schools systems as well as the application’s security, office software integration, reporting capabilities, maintenance and architecture. Troy Lowry Director of System Software Development LSAC TLowry at LSAC dot org JoAnn Sabol Senior Manager of Software Services LSAC jsabol at lsac dot org |
[6,1] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 12:00pm-1:00pm / LARGE LECTURE: 200 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Effective Use of Technology in the Classroom (Taking Technology to the Edge) Audience: All Technical Level: Edgy As technology permeates our lives, we find that students not only use it but expect its use in the classroom. In response to this expectation, more and more faculty members use technology, and primarily PowerPoint, in lectures. Unfortunately, their use is often ineffective to the point that the technology not only loses its benefit but detracts from the learning environment. This presentation will focus on the effective use of technology with vibrant examples of audio, video, PowerPoint, wireless control technology, and responder units to enhance the learning experience. What this presentation is: This presentation will demonstrate the power of technology with the tools that virtually all faculty have and will include a look at more advanced tools. Specifically, the use of Flash Animation created though Swish, the tool Snag-it to capture information from the Web, video editing tools to use clips within a PowerPoint presentation and others. As an added bonus, a teaching technique will be demonstrated with common objects (non-technological) that illustrate the power of the way information is presented and how the methods we employ affect the listener - our students with a twist - that is, illustrating how technology can enhance a non-technological teaching tool. Additionally, this presentation will illustrate common mistakes most presenters make and offer simple solutions on how to avoid these mistakes. What this presentation is not: This is not a “how-to” course. This will not teach the intricacies of how to create a PowerPoint presentation or how to use the various tools utilized in the presentation. In a short time, one can only wet his or her appetite to learn the skills needed to prepare powerful and effective presentations for the classroom. This proposed topic illustrates audio stimulation, video stimulation and student participation of a kind that is rarely utilized in today’s teaching environment but is extremely effective. Sydney Beckman Assistant Professor of Law Charleston School of Law sbeckman at charlestonlaw dot org |
[6,2] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 12:00pm-1:00pm / LR 1: 141 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Pimpin' CALI Ain't Easy!! Audience: All Technical Level: Low The best way to increase CALI usage in your law school is to roll out all those multi-disciplinary skills and start thinking outside of the box. In addition to Door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales, auto sales, shoe sales, and retail management experience Washburn University's Andrew Evans also discusses how his skills and experiences of owning his own business, being a union organizer and a former law student helped him to increase usage of CALI. Since Andrew has taken over as Washburn Law's CALI representative, CALI usage has more than tripled. He knows exactly what to say to get a room full of 75 students to flip open notebooks and grab writing utensils in order to write down the CALI password. He also found creative ways for faculty to motivate students to do CALI lessons. Faculty members are so excited about CALI that they have even expressed interest in writing CALI lessons in their specialized fields. Andrew will show you how to get your people jonesing for CALI! Did we also mention that Andrew will be discussing how his martial arts experience comes into the mix? That's right! You can't be a good pimp without a good pimp slap. Andrew Evans Head of Reference & Adjunct Professor of Law Washburn University School of Law andrew dot evans at washburn dot edu |
[6,3] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 12:00pm-1:00pm / LR 3: 169 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP High Performance for Law School Websites Audience: Everyone Technical Level: Extreme Geek Running Apache, MySQL, and PHP or PERL out of the box can be a very satisfying experience for most law school websites. Yet all of these applications can be easily re-configured to run more efficiently and faster, providing real snap to your website. If your website is humming along, this session will show you how to make it purr. Elmer Robert Masters Director of Internet Development CALI emasters at cali dot org Elmer Robert Masters Director of Internet Development Emory University School of Law emasters at cali dot org |
[6,4] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 12:00pm-1:00pm / LR 4: 170 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP If Your Communications Skills are Like a Country Music Song, You Done Got Problems Audience: All Technical Level: Low Not gettin’ along…not listenin’…wantin’ to leave…thinkin’ of someone else… These phrases could have come from a George Strait or Brooks & Dunn song. Unfortunately, they also can describe the frustration of your customers about the service they’re getting. Technology professionals sometimes focus on the technical nature of customer problems, rather than on the human nature. As a result, though they may solve the technical problem, they leave the customer upset. This presentation will discuss principles of communications and customer service, and help you reduce the chances that customers will view your customer service as a country music song. Calvin Sun 2LE Temple University School of Law csun at calvinsun dot com |
[6,5] Saturday - June 17, 2006 - 12:00pm-1:00pm / LR 5: 171 / slides link placeholder / webcast link placeholder / Session Blog/ GO TOP Packaging Information - Keeping Content Disentangled from Presentation Audience: Authors and Web Coordinators Technical Level: Medium to High Web sites and collections of course materials present challenges in editing, updating and presenting information in the most highly usable forms. Information is most useful when it is categorized and indexed, but kept separate from the delivery mechanics. This presentation will introduce the basic principles of content management and information presentation with immediately-usable examples of content placed on the web. Specific examples include the use of database-driven web pages, style sheets, XML systems (podcasts, newsfeeds, etc.) and content management systems. Earl A. Daniels College of Law Web Coordinator Georgia State University College of Law EarlDaniels at gsu dot edu |
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