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In Spring semester of 2006, CALI conducted the first Legal Education Podcasting Project and we surveyed students at the end of the semester to their reactions. I published the tabulate-able results of the survey in this blog post. I read over the student comments in preparation for my EDUCAUSE presentation and realized that I have […]

Lots of law faculty and law librarians (and at least one Dean) areposting to blogs created at CALI’s Classcaster Legal EducationBlog/Podcast Network. One of those that I kept runningacross because of the interesting posts was the AELR Blog. It seemedlike someone different was posting every day so I decided to follow upand asked Professor James […]

CALI has posted its first Family Law lessons on the CALI website. There are four lessons posted so far and many more to come… Alimony by Professor Cynthia Starnes from Michigan State, Classifying Special Types of Marital Property, Marriage Regulations, and Visitation and Relocation by Professor Janet Richards from the University of Menphis. In addition […]

The Chronicle reports (subscription required) that Yale will be posting audio and video of select courses for free, for everyone on the Internet. From the Yale press release… "…The project will create multidimensional packages—including fulltranscripts in several languages, syllabi, and other coursematerials—for seven courses and design a web interface for thesematerials, to be launched in […]

Professor Mike Madison at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law has decided to podcast one of his courses – well, sort of. "…Classes began yesterday, and right off the bat, a first-year studentapproached me and asked me if I minded his recording the class…." He has allowed the student to do the podcasting for […]

Ever wondered what Deans do? Dean Frank H. Wu of Wayne State University Law School provides some insight. In what I believe to be the first ever law school Dean blog, he has been regularly posting articles here. When I first saw the blog created on Classcaster, I was afraid it would see very infrequent […]

I am delighted to post that CALI now has 201 US Law School Members. This past week, the University of Virginia School of Law joined CALI and the recently launched, Drexel University College of Law also joined. This brings the number of US Law School CALI Members to over 200 for the first time in […]

Austin Groothuis works for CALI (as do I), but he is also a 2L at Chicago-Kent College of Law. His blog has been attracting some positive attention (follow link and see the above graphic) and I realized that I was remiss in mot mentioning this myself after the appropriate disclosures. The blog is loosely aimed […]

Back in the day when I was running a computer center at a lawschool, the months of July and August were some of the busiest monthsgetting things ready for the new batch of students. One ofthe things that I loaded onto our local area network was any tutorialor help document I could find that would […]

The front page of the CALI website has a place that randomly displays comments we get from law students. There is a place for students to submit new comments (link here) and there is also a link on every single CALI lessons that sends us an email right from within the lesson itself. Many of […]