Category Archives: Friday

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Distance education comes in many different styles. In addition to synchronous and asynchronous methods, there is also the medium used for transmitting the class, such as video-conferencing, web-based, or a combination of both. Each of these … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low This session explores the issue of centralization (a.k.a. outsourcing) v. decentralization of IT and provides real life examples of what works and more importantly, when to proceed with caution. Are most IT services now a commodity … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Digital content is in demand. Call them ebooks, digital books, or electronic files – as laptop use continues to increase at law schools – students have begun to search for digital content that is portable, searchable, … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Moderately Technical, but not past the ken of most Search engines help you find stuff, and customized search engines configured with your collections in mind are great tools for helping your audience and directing its attention toward … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Dozens of law schools are experimenting with podcasting as a delivery mechanism for distributing classroom lectures and special events–i.e., repackaging pre-existing content (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Exploring the creative potential of podcasting as … Continue reading →

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Alumni wished they had it; recruiters demand it; students need it; faculty fight it. How can you successfully develop a practical course in Law Practice Management and meet the needs of all? Combining both practice management … Continue reading →

Audience: AnyoneTechnical Level: Low Apreso Classroom is an affordable automated lecture capture and Web publishing system that produces online versions of the classroom experience for on-demand student review. Permanently installed in the classroom, and operating without attendants, Apreso Classroom is … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →