CALIOPOLIS

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 remixed the audio with a screencast of my keynote presentation at the 2006 CALI Conference to create a screencast that introduces a new project that CALI is launching this summer called eLangdell. There isn’t a website just yet (we do have the domain registered, but it’s merely parked for now), but there will be […]

I am off to Oslo, Norway next week to attend Subtech and one of the things I offered to do was to explain the rise of new 3D virtual worlds like Second Life to Norwegian law professors. I don’t have much time and I was fortunate to find a couple of excellent and professionally produced […]

Fascinating video of a prototype the BumpTop 3D desktop PC interface. I really like the feel that this implies and after watching it several times, it really starts to dissolve the line between real and virtual. I want these capabilities on my REAL desk now.

The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reports that Judge James Kimbler is posting videos of sentencing hearings on YouTube.com. Most people and probably a lot of law students have very little experience with what happens inside of courtrooms. Their experience is mostly taken from Law & Order episodes and these don’t really reflect the reality of […]

Elmer points to an article from the Wall Street Journal website with the snarky title … "Why Getting the User To Create Web Content Isn’t Always Progress". The author, Lee Gomes, complains that user-created content on the web… "…You can spend 10 minutes and take in all of it. Spend much more, and you start […]

Ben Verbshow writes compelllingly in a recent article titled "The Book Is Reading You: Why publishers need to stop worrying and love the network" in PublishersWeekly.com… "…Imagine an online Harry Potter in which readers can keeppersonal blogs, engage in live chats in the margins, annotate the textcollectively, compose alternate endings and contribute to communalglossaries and […]

One of the obstacles to distance learning adoption is the finalexam. How can you be sure that the student who hands in the exam is theone who wrote it or that they didn’t access all kinds of informationwhile writing it. Even in the classroom, it’s hard to proctor students who can useubiquitous wireless technologies to […]

A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article called "How Big is theBiggest Library:" that was riffing off of the Kevin Kelly NYTimesarticle "Scan This Book". In it, I estimated that the total size ofall data was about 39 petabytes which came close to Kelly’s estimate of50 petabytes. From a recent post at BarronsOnline… […]

Clicking around my Bloglines feeds today and the following set of articles from Slashdot were displayed… The first is about streaming content from a home-grown media center running Linux to your cell phone. In other words, the cell phone as a delivery platform for all sorts of media. The second is about Google releasing an […]