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Seattle School of Law Teams Up With Legal Aid University

Seattle University School of Law is the first law school in the nation to partner with Legal Aid University to provide state-of-the-art training for legal aid and pro bono lawyers and clinical law programs.Law school faculty will support design and development of LAU’s online and in-person curricula and training programs. Ada Shen-Jaffe, a distinguished public […]

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Census of Law Prof Blogs Updated

Current statistics for Version 3.1 are:Number of Bloggers: 202 bloggers.Growth: Since the last census on June 16, 2005, the number of bloggers has grown from 130 to 202, an increase of 55%! That’s a big increase in less than 5 months. Concurring Opinions: Law Professor Blogger Census (Version 3.1) Via BoleyBlogs. This list includes achart […]

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CALI Conference Idea Diversity

I’ve been doing some of the think-work in preparation for the 2006 Conference for Law School Computing to be held at Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad Law Center on Thu-Sat, June 15-17, 2006. I fear that for some attendees, this conference is getting….stale.We have consciously designed the conference to attract folks from three major communities…techies, law […]

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LII Launches Wex

Received an email this morning from my friend Tom Bruce announcing the immeadiate availability of Wex, a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia built on the MediaWiki platform. Here’s a bit from the Wex FAQ: What is Wex? WEX is a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia. It is intended for a broad audience of people we […]

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RSS Reading Lists

Next steps in RSS, Reading Lists – Think about adopting this idea of RSS Reading Lists for legal ed. Berkman’s H2O Playlists come pretty close. John could elaborate more here.

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RSS Grows in Higher Ed

Thomson Peterson’s >> Syndication for Higher Ed >> Learning Communities, Sharing, and RSS – Good article doing a bit of a wrap up on the current state of affairs re: RSS, etc. in higher ed.

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Web Conferencing with WebHuddle

Using WebHuddle, you have options—and flexibility. Meetings can be conducted either in conjunction with an enterprise’s existing teleconferencing service, or utilizing WebHuddle’s optional voice over IP. WebHuddle also offers recording capabilities—presentations can easily be recorded for playback over any web browser for those who missed the live meeting. WebHuddle — Alternative Communication There is an […]

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Second Mention of Classcaster on corante.com

The terrific Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Education has been featuring lectures and other educational materials at CALI Radio, otherwise known as the ClassCaster, for several months now. A natural extension for podcasting. Between Lawyers: technology + culture + law And they got it mostly right. It is important to note that Classcaster is the platform […]

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Digital Textbooks Get a Slow Start

A pilot program that lets college students buy digital textbooks from their campus bookstores has gotten off to a slow start. But the company that runs the project says the early returns show at the very least that students are interested in e-books. The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Digital Textbooks Struggle to Gain a Foothold […]

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Cell Phones as Personal Kiosks, Moblogging, Clickers and Education

From this articleI learned that Montclair State University has 1400 of its 16,000students equipped with cell phones that tap into all kinds of campusspecific information like bus locations, dining hall menus, etc. Obviously,this would be a great channel to deliver educational content aswell. The phones are not combo/MP3 players, but that’s where theworld seems to […]

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