CALIOPOLIS

Every year, CALI’s members meet during AALS for a membership meeting. This year’s meeting was in Washington, DC on Thursday, January 5, 2006at the Washington Hilton and Towers Hotel. The following folks were elected (or re-elected ) to the CALI Board of Directors. Mohyeddin Abdulaziz, U of Arizona Steve Bradford, Nebraska Ron Eades, Louisville Scott […]

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI www.cali.org) has a launched a project where over 50 law faculty from 44 US and one Canadian law schools are creating podcasts of their courses in the Spring 2006 semester. The goal of the project is to investigate the use of podcasting in legal education. Faculty and students […]

On Monday January 9th, 2006, Prof. Jennifer Martin at Western New England College of Law recorded her Business Organizations class and posted the lecture to her Classcaster blog becoming the first law professor to podcast her course using the Classcaster system. This first podcast launches an ambitious CALI project that will see over 50 faculty […]

Professor Larry Lessig has posted a screencast of a talk on Google’s Book Search project. It’s an 80+ MB torrent download. I played it into Camtasia and tweaked the settings until I got it down to a 22 MB SWF which is a little more bearable – without too much loss of fidelity. It’s an […]

A recent survey by Kineo of the use of audio for learning provides some insights for the law faculty podcasters. You can listen to a Matt Fox of Kineo walk you through the survey results here. The best tip … …And a best practice tip? Make sure audio learning is sufficiently andsuitably chunked for non-linear […]

MBS said it surveyed students at campuses that offered the digital textbooks and discovered that the biggest factor in students’ decision to buy digital textbooks was their price. Student said the books should be discounted between 33 percent and 50 percent. According to MBS, the most popular electronic books sold were in the fields of […]

The good news for the technophobics is that podcasts are (relatively) simple – the MP3 files generated by podcasters are relatively easy to create and don’t require high-priced equipment, allowing teachers to record without a large investment of time or money by the school. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Advertisement feature | Podcasting for schools – the basics […]

Through this event, we are looking to highlight the ways in which tools of new media and the social web are impacting higher education. Are you doing something with blogs or podcasts in student admission? Are you developing online communities for alumni? Have you tried classroom podcasting? Are you a student who’s pioneering the use […]