Category Archives: Friday

Pithiness and links to come later. The darn program ate my last post!You can find my comments from yesterday at all these locations: Keynote: Professor James Boyle, Center for Study of the Public Domain, Got Gamers? Law Students and Videogaming, … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low For years, Software Secure has provided law schools our Securexam software to enable students to use their own computers to take tests without being able to cheat. While continuing to mature and evolve the core security … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Demonstrating a Cost Effective Global Service for delivering high quality distance learning that replicates all of the dynamics present in live face-to-face meeting or classroom over the public Internet. Law Schools can now provide fully interactive … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low At the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law we still use Westlaw, Lexis, Raiser’s Edge, Admit-M, examSoft and other major applications. But there are many other important needs and functions that are critical to the … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low WEX is an ambitious attempt to collaboratively develop an encyclopedia-like resource for law novices. This is not an easy course to steer — collaboratively-developed open encyclopedias like Wikipedia have sparked a lot of controversy, and it … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low As an incoming 1L, Neil Wehneman had a simple (and some would say naive) goal: capture as much legal knowledge as he could, and make it freely available to as many people as possible, both as … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Law schools serve both students and teachers. So, for law schools and for West, ripping, mixing, and learning necessarily expands to include teachers using digital forms to structure (to some extent) what and how they want … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Scheduling your Law School’s classes, events, exams, make-ups, meetings, etc. can be a daunting task. While there are many commercial solutions for handling room and building scheduling, they are expensive, and often times inflexible. Efficient building … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low In the last 12 months, the Marquette Law School Media and Technology group has adopted several software tools and several administrative practices to promote collaboration. Technologists provide the foundation and framework, librarians provide the subject expertise, … Continue reading →

Audience: Library folksTechnical Level: Low Much is being written lately about both the long term risk to libraries in relying on vendor supplied online resources, and about the loss of valuable government information due to the GPO relying on online … Continue reading →