CALIOPOLIS

The AKFQuiz package lets you easily make your own quiz games or learning exercises. These can be used either with grquiz in a graphical environment (SDL), with crtquiz on a text terminal, or with diaquiz in a GUI environment. There is also a line oriented variant, linequiz, which can be used as a backend. A […]

Mayers12DaysXmas2005.mp3 This is a recording of a long Mayer Family Tradition – the singing of the 12 Days of Christmas. One family member is chosen as the "Maestro" (did I spell that right?) and chooses – at random – and without warning – someone to sing each "day" of Christmas in the song. Hilarity ensues.

There is an inherent tension between law schools, teachers and students. School wants student to succeed – be happy – become a rich alum and donate – and pass the bar. Teacher wants to student to learn – and not bug them too much – and only learn what the teacher thinks is important. Teacher […]

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) are collaborating on a project to create podcasts, digital audio recordings, of most of the presentations to be made at the 2006 AALS Annual Meeting to be held January 3-7, 2006 in Washington, DC. CALI staff will be handling the […]

The Michigan State Board of Education is set to approve a new graduation requirement today that would require every high-school student in the state to take at least one online course before receiving a diploma. The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: ‘The Cutting Edge’? This proposal has a few hurdles to clear, but it certainly highlights […]

I found myself catching up on a bunch of blog articles that I had checked and not read over the past month. There were over 30 of them and it took a diligent 2 hours to read through them all. Some were interesting enough to tag in my del.icio.us account and others I emailed to […]

Duke University has discovered that iPods are a hit in class. A year after the university gave all freshman students the little white music players, the number of students using iPods for class work has quadrupled, and the number of courses incorporating iPods has doubled, the university announced. The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Invasion of […]

The Emory Wheel Online reports that Emory University chemistry professor Justin Gallivan is offering enhanced podcasts of his chemistry classes available free via iTunes. Thomson Peterson’s–Syndication for Higher Ed–Emory Chemistry Professor Offers Enhanced Podcasts Not in the law school, but close. Good article that highlights the benefits of podcasting as a supplement for students who […]

California recently adopted a law that stiffens data-security requirements for academic researchers who work with confidential information about human subjects. Some observers predict that other states will follow suit. (The Chronicle, subscription required) The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Safeguards for Personal Data This new law covers data provided by state agencies to non-profit research orgainzations […]

PennTags lets you organize and share your bookmarks. You can use the UPennToolbar or the PennTags Bookmarklet to post websites into your tagspace. PennTags / This is intriguing.  A local social tagging effort aimed at gathering the collected bookmarks of UPenn together in one tagging space.  Seems to focus on academia for the moment, so […]