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I have long been interested in the idea of using game theory in education – especially in legal education. The most notable examples of this are… The Interactive Courtroom from PLI where the student watches the video of a trial unfold and must click to object and then respond with the correct reasons for objecting. […]

Back in December, I interviewed Professor Patrick Wiseman of theGeorgia State University College of Law_ about his experiences inpodcasting. He offers excellent advice to law faculty interested increating audio materials for their students. Interestingly, Professor Wiseman got started recording his classes so that he could listen to them himself and so improve his teaching. This […]

This screencast from the ACLU is funny and unnerving. [Note: requires Flash] If you want to get really creeped out, read David Brin’s "The Transparent Socity". A book he wrote some years ago, but it tells a chilling tale and also offers hope and solutions for dealing with universal lack of privacy.

Here’s the link. CALI worked with AALS to record almost all of the sessions. This was a rather hastily organized effort and kudos goes out to Jane LaBarbera and Carl Monk for trusting in this experiment. There are almost 200 hours of audio recordings of the sessions from the AALS Annual Meeting. We missed some […]

Tim O’Reilly was chatting with Bill Gates during the recent MIX06 conference and this little comment made me sit up and take notice… BILL GATES: …We’ve believed in the idea of getting reading so that you have a device that’s thin enough, light enough, cheap enough, high resolution enough so that you want to read […]

We conducted a survey of law students who are in the classess of faculty who are participating in the Legal Education Podcasting Project and the summary results are reported here LEPPMidSemesterSurvey.pdf.[pdf] There were 388 student responses from 18 different law schools with the University of Baltimore School of Law topping the list with 69 responses […]

danah boyd is one of the most insightful bloggers on the net and in a recent post she talks about "super publics". "…In talking about "super publics," I want to get at the altered state ofpublics – what publics look like when they are infused with thefeatures of digital architectures. What does it mean to […]

This is an actual photo of one of the tornadoes that hit Springfield, Illinois last weekend. What do sniffles and snow days have to do with tornadoes and hurricanes? All of these are a cause of a cancelled class or an instance of a student missing a class. With the web, podcasting and simple digital […]

This the second in a series that riffs off Rob Reynolds insightful post at Xplanazine titled "Five Laws of Product Development for Education in the 21st Century. Here is Part One: We No Longer Know How They Want To Know. 2. Convergence Will Stay Ahead of Content Here’s a quote from the Reynold’s post… "…Every […]

Rob Reynolds over at Xplanazine has a great post called "The Five Laws of Product Development for Education in the 21st Century" that I would like to use to riff on legal education and law practice. 1. We No Longer Know How They Want To Know Legal Education and Law Practice have had an electronic […]