CALIOPOLIS

On Monday January 9th, 2006, Prof. Jennifer Martin at Western New England College of Law recorded her Business Organizations class and posted the lecture to her Classcaster blog becoming the first law professor to podcast her course using the Classcaster system. This first podcast launches an ambitious CALI project that will see over 50 faculty […]

Professor Larry Lessig has posted a screencast of a talk on Google’s Book Search project. It’s an 80+ MB torrent download. I played it into Camtasia and tweaked the settings until I got it down to a 22 MB SWF which is a little more bearable – without too much loss of fidelity. It’s an […]

A recent survey by Kineo of the use of audio for learning provides some insights for the law faculty podcasters. You can listen to a Matt Fox of Kineo walk you through the survey results here. The best tip … …And a best practice tip? Make sure audio learning is sufficiently andsuitably chunked for non-linear […]

MBS said it surveyed students at campuses that offered the digital textbooks and discovered that the biggest factor in students’ decision to buy digital textbooks was their price. Student said the books should be discounted between 33 percent and 50 percent. According to MBS, the most popular electronic books sold were in the fields of […]

The good news for the technophobics is that podcasts are (relatively) simple – the MP3 files generated by podcasters are relatively easy to create and don’t require high-priced equipment, allowing teachers to record without a large investment of time or money by the school. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Advertisement feature | Podcasting for schools – the basics […]

Through this event, we are looking to highlight the ways in which tools of new media and the social web are impacting higher education. Are you doing something with blogs or podcasts in student admission? Are you developing online communities for alumni? Have you tried classroom podcasting? Are you a student who’s pioneering the use […]

The AKFQuiz package lets you easily make your own quiz games or learning exercises. These can be used either with grquiz in a graphical environment (SDL), with crtquiz on a text terminal, or with diaquiz in a GUI environment. There is also a line oriented variant, linequiz, which can be used as a backend. A […]

Mayers12DaysXmas2005.mp3 This is a recording of a long Mayer Family Tradition – the singing of the 12 Days of Christmas. One family member is chosen as the "Maestro" (did I spell that right?) and chooses – at random – and without warning – someone to sing each "day" of Christmas in the song. Hilarity ensues.

There is an inherent tension between law schools, teachers and students. School wants student to succeed – be happy – become a rich alum and donate – and pass the bar. Teacher wants to student to learn – and not bug them too much – and only learn what the teacher thinks is important. Teacher […]

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) are collaborating on a project to create podcasts, digital audio recordings, of most of the presentations to be made at the 2006 AALS Annual Meeting to be held January 3-7, 2006 in Washington, DC. CALI staff will be handling the […]