Author Archives: Elmer Masters

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →