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.

Inside LSAC: Past, Present and Future

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Over the past 7 years, the Law School Admission Council has become the preeminent player in providing technology-based services to the law school admission offices. In its special position as a membership organization made up of … Continue reading

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Personal Knowledge Management & Collaboration Strategies for Legal Researchers & IT Staff

Audience: Faculty, Instructional Technologies, Leadership, IT StaffTechnical Level: Middling The increasing volume of digital information that researchers’ collect and create make the task of finding, capturing, organizing and eventually collaborating with digital data more difficult. Multiple silos of data (e-mail, … Continue reading

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Creating Firefox Kiosks with GNU/Linux

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Pretty Geeky Since our OPACs are essentially glorified web browsers, expensive, overpowered Windows machines could be replaced with a more secure, much less maintenance-intensive, and cost-effective (read: free) solution, making use of already available hardware. I will … Continue reading

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Dean’s Eye View of Technology in Law Schools

Audience: AllTechnical Level: None requried Nova’s Dean Harbaugh has been an avid proponent of technology in legal education for many years. In this session, he will discuss frankly why technology can be an enhancement to law school operations, education and … Continue reading

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Podcasting Law School Courses: The Classcaster Experiment

Audience: FacultyTechnical Level: Low This presentation will include several speakers who participated in CALI’s Legal Education Podcasting Project this past spring. Some of the faculty recorded their class lectures and others created weekly summaries for their students. One of the … Continue reading

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Opening Keynote: Rip, Mix, Learn

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low What is Rip, Mix, Learn? It’s a metaphor for the way the digital and real world is evolving and how we use it. It’s having the web your way, and sometimes that’s the fastest of fast … Continue reading

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Early Registration

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Presenter Email

Howdy folks. As John mentioned in his email last week, I am writingabout the official 2006 Conference for Law School Computing blog.Please bear with me a bit as this message is going to be bit lengthy,but packed full of useful … Continue reading

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Welcome to the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing Blog

This is the official blog for the 2006 conference held Thursday-Saturday, June 15-17, 2006 at Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad Law Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Each conference session has its own blog post, arranged by date. You can access them here: … Continue reading

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