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The Program in Research in Information Technology of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). In support of the Program’s mission to encourage collaborative, open source software development within traditional Mellon constituencies, these awards—to be given for the first time in 2006—will recognize not-for-profit organizations that […]

Tim O’Reilly reports on some usage statistics by programmers who have the option of purchasing PDF, paper or both versions of new books being published by his press. He reports …. 60% choose PDF only, 36% choose PDF and paper version 4% choose paper only Mind you, this is after three months of their new […]

Image from the movie "12 Angry Men". I ran across a post today on one of the Educause blogs by Phillip D. Long of MIT about some open source software that lets you create a set of links into a commercial DVD so that you could jump to parts of a movie. The point of […]

From page 55 of Professor Yochai Benkler’s book Wealth of Networks … "…A billion people in advanced economies may have between two billion and six billion spare hours among them, every day…" (a) There are about 10,000 law faculty employed in US law schools today. (b) There are 30 subject areas in the CALI Lesson […]

This is my third post on my reading of Professor Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks. Quote from page 31… "…Technology creates feasibility spaces for social practice…" I am enamored of Benkler’s choice of the word "feasibility". It implies what is possible, not what is certain and this is certainly a central theme of the book. […]

I have long been interested in the idea of using game theory in education – especially in legal education. The most notable examples of this are… The Interactive Courtroom from PLI where the student watches the video of a trial unfold and must click to object and then respond with the correct reasons for objecting. […]

Tim O’Reilly was chatting with Bill Gates during the recent MIX06 conference and this little comment made me sit up and take notice… BILL GATES: …We’ve believed in the idea of getting reading so that you have a device that’s thin enough, light enough, cheap enough, high resolution enough so that you want to read […]

We conducted a survey of law students who are in the classess of faculty who are participating in the Legal Education Podcasting Project and the summary results are reported here LEPPMidSemesterSurvey.pdf.[pdf] There were 388 student responses from 18 different law schools with the University of Baltimore School of Law topping the list with 69 responses […]

This is an actual photo of one of the tornadoes that hit Springfield, Illinois last weekend. What do sniffles and snow days have to do with tornadoes and hurricanes? All of these are a cause of a cancelled class or an instance of a student missing a class. With the web, podcasting and simple digital […]

If you are, CALI is conducting a very short survey (5 minutes tops) that you can fill out here. It was written by a couple of CALI’s authors – Professors Joe Grohman and Ron Brown from Nova Southeastern. The comments received so far have been excellent. Please partcipate to help us decide some future directions […]