Archive for June, 2006

“Why Getting the User to Create Web Content Isn’t Always Progress” – COMPARED TO WHAT?

Elmer points to an article from the Wall Street Journal website with the snarky title … "Why Getting the User To Create Web Content Isn’t Always Progress". The author, Lee Gomes, complains that user-created content on the web… "…You can spend 10 minutes and take in all of it. Spend much more, and you start […]

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Podcast Interview with Law Student Don Zhou of William Mitchell College of Law

This is an interview with Don Zhou who is a 1L at William Mitchell College of Law and the Head of Technical Services in the Law Library. He heard about the podcasting project and approached several professors in courses that he was taking and gained their permission to post recordings of the classes on the […]

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Teachers Conduct the Music of Books and All That Classroom Jazz

Ben Verbshow writes compelllingly in a recent article titled "The Book Is Reading You: Why publishers need to stop worrying and love the network" in PublishersWeekly.com… "…Imagine an online Harry Potter in which readers can keeppersonal blogs, engage in live chats in the margins, annotate the textcollectively, compose alternate endings and contribute to communalglossaries and […]

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Podcast Interviews with Law Faculty Podcasters – Professor Lee Peoples of Oklahoma City School of Law Teaching Advanced Legal Research

This is the next in our series of interviews with law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project this past semester (Spring or Winter) of 2006. Lee Peoples is the Associate Director for Faculty, Research and Instructional Services and teaches at the Oklahoma City University School of Law and created weekly summaries for […]

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Podcast Interviews with Law Faculty Podcasters – Professor Norm Garland of Southwestern University Teaching Constitutional Criminal Procedure

Here is the next podcast interview in our continuing series of interviews with law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project. Professor Norm Garland of the Southwestern University School of Law used podcasting in his Constitutional Criminal Procedure course. Professor Garland also makes extensive use of Powerpoints and is experimenting with posting videocasts […]

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Podcast Interviews with Law Faculty Podcasters – Professor Carole Buckner of Western State University Teaching Civil Procedure II

This is the latest interview with law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcastaing Project this past spring semester. Professor Carole Buckner of Western State University School of Law used podcasting in her Civil Procedure II course. The podcast can be found here – click to listen or right-click to download the MP3 – […]

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Podcast Interviews with Law Faculty Podcasters – Professor Karin Mika of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Teaching Advanced Legal Research

Here is the next in our series of interviews with law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project. Professor Karin Mika of Cleveland State University – Cleveland Marshall College of Law used podcasts in her Advanced Legal Research course. This podcast is 31 minutes and 48 seconds long. Here is the link to […]

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Podcast Interview with Law Faculty Podcaster Professor Aaron Fellmeth of Arizona State University School of Law Teaching Patent Law

This is the next in a series of podcast interviews with law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project. Professor Aaron Fellmeth of Arizona State University School of Law recorded the classroom of his Patent Law class. He is a self-proclaimed "fast talker" and believes that the podcast helped his students because they […]

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Watch Your Students Take Their Exam At Home

One of the obstacles to distance learning adoption is the finalexam. How can you be sure that the student who hands in the exam is theone who wrote it or that they didn’t access all kinds of informationwhile writing it. Even in the classroom, it’s hard to proctor students who can useubiquitous wireless technologies to […]

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Podcast Interviews – James Cramer, Director of IT and Classroom Technology

During my podcast interview with Professor Scott Burnham, we were joined by James Cramer, Director of IT at Montana who discusses a survey he conducted of students who were in Professor Burnham’s Contracts courses in relation to their use of the podcasts. We also talk about technical issues, equipment setup, staffing and the future of […]

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