Category Archives: Thursday

Sessions for Thursday, June 15 2006

Law Students Write About Law Libraries

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Based on my recently published article, this session will give an overview of what law students are writing in their web logs about law libraries. The article can be found at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/newsletter/25_2/Blawgs.htm I will present the … Continue reading

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Faculty Engagement /Technology Adoption: Round table discussion

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Presentation Powerpoint: Faculty_Rewards.pptBook References: references.pdf Law School’s employ faculty for the primary roles of: teaching, researching, and producing publications. However in addition to these responsibilities it is clear faculty are expected to participate in committees, advise … Continue reading

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Aspen Studyware

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low Laptops are everywhere in law school, but until now there has been no software that specifically does what law students do. Aspen Studyware is workflow software designed by a law student for every part of law … Continue reading

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Mixing It Up with Forensic Science, Technology & Law: The National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law

Audience: CSI FansTechnical Level: Low This presentation will showcase the work of the National Clearinghouse for Science Technology and the Law at Stetson University College of Law (NCSTL). In 1999, the National Institute of Justice reviewed the status and needs … Continue reading

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Vegas, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere and Motion- Review of consumer video editing software

Audience: AnyoneTechnical Level: Medium Barbara Ginsburg and Glen McBeth from Washburn University School of Law will give a hands-on demonstration of video techniques and common video editing software. These are commonly used for creating instructional videos. Powerpoint Slides Media Files … Continue reading

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Legal Writing and Research Library Workshop Modules: Teaching Legal Bibliography Using Instructional Technology in Innovative Ways

Audience: AnyoneTechnical Level: Low Each year, the Legal Writing and Research faculty at Wayne State University Law School, a staff of five, introduce 200-250 students to the process of legal research and writing. The law librarians at the Arthur Neef … Continue reading

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Into the Future with Classroom Technology

Audience: AllTechnical Level: Low with some Medium Our goal is to examine what is possible with classroom technology. What would an ideal classroom look like today? or 5 years from today? Classroom technology can be done on the cheap, but … Continue reading

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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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