Archive for February, 2006

The Year of the Ebook Reader?

It looks like this year will be a watershed for new ebook readers. The popularity of Apple’s iPod and the business model of iTunes has shown the way for this to work. There are at least three ebook readers due for release in the next couple of months based on Eink technology. The most anticipated […]

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2006 Conference for Law School Computing – CALL FOR SPEAKERS

This is the CALL FOR SPEAKERS for the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing. Registration will be up in a few days. The hotel will take phone call reservations, but not web reservations just yet – don’t let that stop you as hotel rooms GO FAST and we lose them 30 days before the conference. […]

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The Faux Driveway Moment – Why I Love Podcasting

I came home from the store just now and was listening to a fascinating discussion about RSS and the transparency of corporations and business models of blogging and aggregation. When I hit the driveway, I sat in my car for a few moments because the discussion wasn’t over yet I didn’t want to turn off […]

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Legal Schools of Thought – Taxonomy or Folksonomy

I was having a very interesting discussion with Elmer Masters about how law faculty categorize what they do and how they think during the creation of legal education and scholarship. One high-level categorization system could be the "school of thought" that is being promulgated within the lecture, article or case commentary or analysis. As a […]

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Survey “Managing Internet Access in Law School Classrooms”

Michael Sparks the Computing Services Director at LSU Law School conducted a survey of how law schools manage wireless access in their classrooms. The survey pdf is here: wirelesssurvey.pdf. There were 56 responding law schools and the results should not be too surprising. Some schools are using technology to restrict student surfing by either switching […]

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More to Course Podcasting Than Just Recordings Lectures

Interesting article that speaks to one of the main experiments we are conducting with the Legal Education Podcasting Project: Classroom recordings vs. Weekly summaries. "…Recording a lecture may not produce a good podcast. This point was madeby a colleague, Michael Rappa, who produced podcasts for his Fall 2005course. His says, "It is not as simple […]

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