CALIOPOLIS

News of BlackBoard’s pledge is still pinballing around the blogpsphere. I subscribe to a stored search for the term ‘blackboard patent’ and it retrieves dozens of blog posts every day since they made the Pledge. The great majority of these posts have not been positive or grateful to BlackBoard. I have really been trying to […]

There is an old joke that I first read in an Archie comic where Jughead is up on the roof of the school on his hands and knees looking for something. The principle, Mr. Weatherbee asks him what he is doing. "I’m looking for a book I lost yesterday in the cafeteria", Jughead replies. "If […]

Read all about here. I’m still digesting, but a couple of things pop out. Last week, after the news that the USPTO had agreed to re-examine the ‘138 patent, the number of blogs and news sources that ran the story was huge and noisy. They want to own the commercial CMS market. I haven’t read […]

So what are the arguments for banning laptops? I believe there are some good ones and some good sounding ones, but I also think there are more subtle issues surfacing. I’ll come back to that. 1. Laptops are a high-definition distraction and students cannot resist looking and clicking if the screen is right in front […]

There was yet another discussion on the Teknoids mailing lists (the list is mostly law school IT folks) on the subject of banning laptops in the classroom (or at least shutting off access to the Internet while in the classroom). For a long time, I dismissed this topic as so much culture clash, but its […]

The New York Times is reporting that IBM has released a new enterprise social networking suite called Lotus Connections. What does this have to do with legal education? The New York Times pieces quotes… "…Lotus Connections has five components — activities, communities, dogear(a bookmarking system), profiles and blogs — aimed at helping expertswithin a company […]

I ran across this video on Youtube (thanks to PresentationZen) and I love the idea of apparently unrelated relationships it evokes.

Every year, the membership of CALI meets during AALS to elect new members to the Board of Directors and I give an overview of the previous year plus a look-ahead to the coming year. 2006 was an amazing year for CALI and I expect that 2007 will be even better. You can watch/listen to my […]

This is BIG NEWS for CALI. In the Fall 2006 Semester, users of the CALI website downloaded or ran CALI lessons over 500,000 times. This is the highest single semester ever. The totals for the calendar year (as opposed to academic year) for 2006 are over 880,000. Many thanks to all the schools and students […]

Every year, my sisters and their families gather for the holidays and one of our traditions is to jointly sing the 12 Days of Christmas. This year, we tried something a little different. On the last verse (where all 12 days are sung), we tried to "sing" the "sound" of the item … uhhh … […]