CALIOPOLIS

Put this blog post under thinking out loud. I have been watching the rise of YouTube and Flickr and other media sharing and social software/networking sites and I always wonder what kind of educational angle there is (it’s my job) and I think I see where it’s headed. I was reading about Yale’s grant from […]

CALI has posted its first Family Law lessons on the CALI website. There are four lessons posted so far and many more to come… Alimony by Professor Cynthia Starnes from Michigan State, Classifying Special Types of Marital Property, Marriage Regulations, and Visitation and Relocation by Professor Janet Richards from the University of Menphis. In addition […]

The Chronicle reports (subscription required) that Yale will be posting audio and video of select courses for free, for everyone on the Internet. From the Yale press release… "…The project will create multidimensional packages—including fulltranscripts in several languages, syllabi, and other coursematerials—for seven courses and design a web interface for thesematerials, to be launched in […]

Matthew Small, BlackBoard’s General Counsel is quoted today in aChronicle for Higher Education article (subscription required)… "…"We don’t claim to have invented the course management system," saidMatthew Small, senior vice president and general counsel forBlackboard. "This is about specific functionality."…" That’s correct, they don’t and some of the hyperbole about their lawsuit has been over […]

When the media is reporting on a new story that involves a courtcase or a legal issue, they naturally turn to legal experts to providecommentary. Many of those experts are law professors and I knowof many law schools that provide lists of law professors with expertisewho are willing to speak on to reporters. It’s a […]

Professor Mike Madison at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law has decided to podcast one of his courses – well, sort of. "…Classes began yesterday, and right off the bat, a first-year studentapproached me and asked me if I minded his recording the class…." He has allowed the student to do the podcasting for […]

Ever wondered what Deans do? Dean Frank H. Wu of Wayne State University Law School provides some insight. In what I believe to be the first ever law school Dean blog, he has been regularly posting articles here. When I first saw the blog created on Classcaster, I was afraid it would see very infrequent […]

An excellent article in the TimesOnline compares the podcasting ofuniversity lectures to time-shifting television shows like you can dowith Tivo or other digital recorders or like you can do when youdownload televisions shows from iTunes or watch videso on YouTube. Ithink this is an apt comparison. Podcasting gives students moreoptions to integrate their learning into […]