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excited utterances has this great list of conferences, worldwide, that focus on legal technology and knowledge management: Saves the Dates: 2006 KM Conferences January Jan. 30-Feb 1LegalTech NY February Feb. 8 & 9Legal IT 2006London Feb. 27 – Mar. 1Knowledge Management for Professional ServicesSydney March Mar. 23&24Fourth Annual Knowledge Counsel ForumNew York April Apr. 20-22ABA […]

Slashdot is discussing wi-fi access in the college classroom in an article ominously titled…Is Wi-Fi Ruining College? Here’s an interesting solution that is likely to have some traction with law faculty… "…I’m a student at Harvard Business School, where they have a fairlyinteresting solution for handling this problem. While every campusbuilding has wireless access, all […]

A study by the Sloan Consortium found that a growing number of colleges are putting online more of the courses that they offer in a face-to-face setting. The consortium, an organization that promotes standards for online learning, found that more than three out of five institutions offering face-to-face undergraduate or graduate courses offer them at […]

In an announcement about Google Base on the company’s blog, CollegeBoard.com is listed as one of the first users of the service. The service has a section for "course descriptions" and another on "education." The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Google Helps Students Search for Colleges Well, this is interesting. A lot of the content in […]

Seattle University School of Law is the first law school in the nation to partner with Legal Aid University to provide state-of-the-art training for legal aid and pro bono lawyers and clinical law programs.Law school faculty will support design and development of LAU’s online and in-person curricula and training programs. Ada Shen-Jaffe, a distinguished public […]

Current statistics for Version 3.1 are:Number of Bloggers: 202 bloggers.Growth: Since the last census on June 16, 2005, the number of bloggers has grown from 130 to 202, an increase of 55%! That’s a big increase in less than 5 months. Concurring Opinions: Law Professor Blogger Census (Version 3.1) Via BoleyBlogs. This list includes achart […]

I’ve been doing some of the think-work in preparation for the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing to be held at Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad Law Center on Thu-Sat, June 15-17, 2006. I fear that for some attendees, this conference is getting….stale.We have consciously designed the conference to attract folks from three major communities…techies, law […]

Received an email this morning from my friend Tom Bruce announcing the immeadiate availability of Wex, a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia built on the MediaWiki platform. Here’s a bit from the Wex FAQ: What is Wex? WEX is a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia. It is intended for a broad audience of people we […]

Next steps in RSS, Reading Lists – Think about adopting this idea of RSS Reading Lists for legal ed. Berkman’s H2O Playlists come pretty close. John could elaborate more here.

Thomson Peterson’s >> Syndication for Higher Ed >> Learning Communities, Sharing, and RSS – Good article doing a bit of a wrap up on the current state of affairs re: RSS, etc. in higher ed.