Monthly Archives: June 2006

Keynote: Professor James Boyle, Center for Study of the Public Domain

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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Knowledge Management & Collaboration for Researchers

Here are some links to documents from my presentation. First is a list of the software packages we looked at. Next is the paper that I based the presentation on. Finally the slides from my presentation, complete with my notes.

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Day 1

Only a short post today. Instead of writing a lenghtly blog entry, I decided to comment on each of the sessions I attended. I”ll continue to comment tomorrow, but with a longer entry, too! (Translation: it’s late. I’m tired!)Sessions attended:Plenary,Knowledge … Continue reading

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TWEN in Your Classroom?

Audience: Law Faculty and LibrariansTechnical 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: … Continue reading

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Bull Session

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Sublime to Absurd 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 … Continue reading

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Dealing in Clusterfication

Audience: NetworkersTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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Legal Bibliography Management and Student Writing Programs

Audience: AnyoneTechnical 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. … Continue reading

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Laptops in the Classroom – Pros and Cons

Audience: AllTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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Why does it pay to repair your student?s laptops for free (and how can you afford to do it)?

Audience: Help DeskTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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Podcasting and Blogging for Legal Education

Audience: AnyoneTechnical 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 … Continue reading

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