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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 […]

If you are, CALI is conducting a very short survey (5 minutes tops) that you can fill out here. It was written by a couple of CALI’s authors – Professors Joe Grohman and Ron Brown from Nova Southeastern. The comments received so far have been excellent. Please partcipate to help us decide some future directions […]

It looks like this year will be a watershed for new ebook readers. The popularity of Apple’s iPod and the business model of iTunes has shown the way for this to work. There are at least three ebook readers due for release in the next couple of months based on Eink technology. The most anticipated […]

This is the CALL FOR SPEAKERS for the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing. Registration will be up in a few days. The hotel will take phone call reservations, but not web reservations just yet – don’t let that stop you as hotel rooms GO FAST and we lose them 30 days before the conference. […]

I came home from the store just now and was listening to a fascinating discussion about RSS and the transparency of corporations and business models of blogging and aggregation. When I hit the driveway, I sat in my car for a few moments because the discussion wasn’t over yet I didn’t want to turn off […]

I was having a very interesting discussion with Elmer Masters about how law faculty categorize what they do and how they think during the creation of legal education and scholarship. One high-level categorization system could be the "school of thought" that is being promulgated within the lecture, article or case commentary or analysis. As a […]

Michael Sparks the Computing Services Director at LSU Law School conducted a survey of how law schools manage wireless access in their classrooms. The survey pdf is here: wirelesssurvey.pdf. There were 56 responding law schools and the results should not be too surprising. Some schools are using technology to restrict student surfing by either switching […]

Interesting article that speaks to one of the main experiments we are conducting with the Legal Education Podcasting Project: Classroom recordings vs. Weekly summaries. "…Recording a lecture may not produce a good podcast. This point was madeby a colleague, Michael Rappa, who produced podcasts for his Fall 2005course. His says, "It is not as simple […]

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 […]