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.

IT leadership skills

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Suits not required A good technology officer must make the institution more efficient and meet the expectations of community members and related parties through the adoption and intelligent use of technology. This session discusses what the technology … Continue reading →

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Concord Law School’s Learning Management System and Flash Classroom Chat

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Concord Law School is a business unit of Kaplan, Inc., which is one of the Washington Post Companies. Concord is a fully online law school that has been in existence for 8 years. Over that time, … Continue reading →

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Legal Journals and Digital Publishing

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low While post hoc collections of journals like Hein Online and ad hoc collections of working papers like SSRN continue to grow, legal journals are by and large still only print enterprises. A great opportunity to share … Continue reading →

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Got Gamers? Law Students and Videogaming

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low In the book, Got Game (Harvard Business School Press 2004), the authors concluded that extensive video-gaming experience has significantly affected the generation of young adults now entering the business world, i.e., they are better addapted to … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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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TWEN in Your Classroom?

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Elmer Masters

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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