Author Archives: Elmer Masters

About Elmer Masters

Elmer R. Masters is the Director of Technology at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (www.cali.org) where he works on interesting projects involving technology and legal education like eLangdell, Classcaster, Lawbooks, QuizWright, and the CALI website. He has over 30 years of experience building tech tools for legal education and systems for accessing law and legal materials on the Internet. He is the admin of the Teknoids mailing list (www.teknoids.net) and has been blogging about legal education, law, and technology for over 20 years (www.symphora.com). He has a JD from Syracuse University College of Law and was employed by Syracuse, Cornell Law School, and Emory University School of Law before joining CALI in 2003. Elmer has presented at the CALI Conference for Law School Computing (where he organizes the program), the AALL and AALS Annual Meetings, Law Via The Internet, and other conferences, symposia, and workshops on topics ranging from IT management in law schools to building open access court reporting systems to information architecture design and implementation in law.

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

Posted on June 17, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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

Posted on June 17, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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

Posted on June 17, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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

Posted on June 17, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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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Computer-Based Testing – Focusing on the Administrator

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading →

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Cost Effective Videoconference and Web Collaboration Service in an Integrated Solution

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading →

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“Just say No to Outsourcing” – Developing an in-house info system to take care of your daily needs

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading →

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WEX – An Online Legal Encyclopedia

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading →

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Life of a Law Student:: Student Podcasting

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading →

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Mixing Digital Forms for Learning and Teaching

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading →

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