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The 2006-2007 CALI CD is shipping this week to law schools that pre-ordered it for their incoming students. The CALI CD contains a snapshot of all of the lessons that we publish and is available to CALI-member law schools that want to give it out to their 1Ls FOR FREE (Yes, it’s free to 1Ls, […]

A month back, I pointed to videos of sentencing hearingsposted on YouTube by the judge in the case. Most of the cases seemed tobe drug-related. These videos were a little thin on content, but Iasked the question "Is this legal education"? Lawyer, Allison Margolin has posted a video that is part marketing,part public information and […]

John Dale’s blog, Autology (curious name there) points me to an SSRN article that I missed somehow. Professor Benjamin Barton at the University of Tennessee College of Law.has uploaded a draft of his article "Is There a Correlation Between Scholarly Productivity, Scholarly Influence and Teaching Effectiveness in American Law Schools? An Empirical Study". The spoiler […]

At this year’s CALI Conference for Law School Computing® and as a result of John Mayer’s talks at SubTech 2006 and AALS I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about Classcaster. Most take the form of something like "I’ve tried Classcaster and it really seems to work great but what about…" and then I’m asked […]

The good folks at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) have posted some of their TED Talks and the talk by Hans Rosling (Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) is a real corker. Here’s his blog. Watch this video and in 10 minutes, you will be smarter. This gives me all sorts of ideas about […]

I’ve been having some fascinating discussions with Elmer Masters, CALI’s Internet Guy(tm). We have been hashing out the next phase of the Legal Education Podcasting Project (or LEPP II for short). The success of LEPP I and the amount of press that podcasting and education is getting that podcasting education content is going thermonuclear. In […]

Here is another in a series of interviews with law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project. Professor Charles Shafer of the University of Baltimore School of Law created weekly summaries for his evening division Torts class. This podcast is 29 minutes long. Click to listen or right-click to download the MP3 – […]

Two articles crossed my path today and I would like to juxtapose two clips. The first is from the New York Times titled "Schoolbooks Are Given F’s in Originality" by Diana Jean Schemo. Here’s the quote… "…William Cronon, a historian at the University of Wisconsin who wrotethe American Historical Association’s statement on ethics, saidtextbooks were […]

In my presentation at the CALI Conference last month (screencast/podcast), one of my arguments for creating a digital repository of course materials was avian flu. I took some jibes for that from some quarters, but I have been running across other articles on the web that support my position. The blog Lanny on Learning says… […]

As posted earlier, I gave a talk at AALL with Jim Milles. Here is a link to a screencast version of my portion of the talk (audio synced with the slides). This screencast is 27 minutes long.