Category Archives: Saturday

Sessions on Saturday, June 17 2006

I hate Captchas

To comment on this blog, you need to complete a Captcha. This one requires you to type in a sequence of numbers, something I’m invaribly going to get wrong more often than not. I wonder if, instead, we could use … Continue reading

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Teaching Lessons from CALI Lesson Authors

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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Packaging Information – Keeping Content Disentangled from Presentation

Audience: Authors and Web CoordinatorsTechnical Level: Medium to ? (basic concepts will be of interest to all) Web sites and collections of course materials present challenges in editing, updating and presenting information in the most highly usable forms. Information is … Continue reading

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If Your Communications Skills are Like a Country Music Song, You Done Got Problems

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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High Performance for Law School Websites

Audience: EveryoneTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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Pimpin’ CALI Ain’t Easy!!

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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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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