Monthly Archives: June 2006

Effective Use of Technology in the Classroom (Taking Technology to the Edge)

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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ACES2 – The new tool for your admissions office from LSAC

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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Law School Business Continuity and Disaster Preparedness

Audience: AnyoneTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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Outsourcing Can Work For You

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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The Social Web and Higher Education

Audience: LowTechnical 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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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‘Piping hot content’ from your library via CALI ClassCaster IntraBlogs

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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Rip, Mix, Learn and the Goals of Storage Management

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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USB and Custom Boot Disks

Audience: Tech StaffTechnical Level: Medium Each year, during the start of the new academic year we will have a new incoming class of law students (150 – 250) zooming by with newer and more complex computer problems. They can come … Continue reading

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Growing Pains and Gains – Online Student Course Evaluations

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low In the Spring of 2004, 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 … Continue reading

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