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Just A Podcasting Test

Posted on March 13, 2009
Here is my test podcast. Click to listen or right-click to download - JustATest4Podcasting.mp3

Case Law Wordles

Posted on February 23, 2009
One of the cool things about having a commons that contains public domain versions of case law is that it invites experimentation. I ran across this nifty toy the other day called Wordle (www.wordle.net) that let me create the above graphic. I grabbed a random Supreme Court case from CALI's Legal Education Commons (www...

Mayer, Lazar, Devenny, Marik, Robinson, Kokosz Families Sing the 12 Days of Christmas

Posted on January 15, 2009
The picture does not capture the participants - unfortunately, no one took pics at this year's Christmas gathering. Some may say this it is better that no pictures were taken if you listen to the singing in the podcast. Just saying...Here is the podcast ...

Blogging Hiatus Ends

Posted on January 15, 2009
I am back to blogging. I had to take some time off to recover from quintuple bypass surgery. Let this be a reminder to get your cholesterol checked - mine was over 330 last April - now it's around 150 thankyouverymuch.I've been back to work for quite some time now (since May), but I had fallen so far behind that I just didn't know where to pick up the blog...

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CALI Tools For Law Faculty in 15 Minutes from AALS 2009

Posted on January 15, 2009
Here is the link to a screencast of my presentation at AALS on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 in San Diego. I was participating in the "Redesigning Legal Education" session. I had 15 minutes to cover a lot of ground, so I apologize for my fast-talking...

New Podcast Launched - PLEASE PAY ATTENTION

Posted on March 13, 2008
"Please Pay Attention" is the working title of the new podcast series. We would love to get suggestions from listeners to name this podcast. Elmer Masters and I talk about legal education-related IT topics several times a week and we have threatened in the past to turn some of those conversations into podcasts because we believe that others might benefit...

Transforming Legal Education - 2008 CALI Conference Theme

Posted on February 03, 2008
We have a theme!!! "Transforming Legal Educaction" is the theme for the 2008 Conference for Law School Computing. We'll be posting links for registration and putting out a call for speakers soon. All of these links will be here.

Internet in Africa: Still the Dark Continent in the 21st Century

Posted on January 31, 2008
Before the interior of sub-Saharan Africa was known, mapmakers would leave it blank or dark and so Africa was known as the "Dark Continent". This graphic from 2005 shows that Africa is still the Dark Continent in terms of Internet accessibility...

Abuja Campus of the Nigerian Law School - The Largest Law Class

Posted on January 23, 2008
My travels took me to the Abuja campus which is the largest of the four campuses of the Nigerian Law School. There are 1600 students enrolled here and the picture above shows just about all of them. Because the room is so big, I took three pictures and stitched together...

Not "Casual Day" in a Nigerian Law Classroom

Posted on January 22, 2008
Yesterday, I visited the Kano Campus of the Nigerian Law School. Kano is in the north of Nigeria and is NIgeria's second most populous city after Lagos. The law school is a long way away from the city center and resides on a large and beautiful campus of a former conference center/resort...

"Casual Day" in a Nigerian Law School Course

Posted on January 20, 2008
The picture above was taken during my visit of the Enugu campus of the Nigerian Law School this just past Friday. This was my second stop of four. I am visiting all four campuses of the Nigerian Law School - Lagos, Enugu, Abuja and Kano.While touring the Enugu campus, we dropped in on a Property class in progress and I was asked to say a few words on the spot...

Legal Education in Nigeria

Posted on January 16, 2008
I am off to the airport in a few short hours to travel to Lagos, Nigeria for nine days visiting the four campuses that make up the Nigerian Law School. All lawyers who hope to practice in Nigeria must complete a year or more of study at one of the campuses of the Nigerian Law School...

2008 Conference for Law School Computing - Help Me Pick a Theme

Posted on January 10, 2008
The 2008 Conference for Law School Computing will be held on Thursday - Friday, June 19 - 21, 2008 at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, MD. We haven't set up the website or even put out a call for speakers yet because I am stumped on deciding a theme for this conference...

CORRECTION - CALI currently has 208 U.S. Law School Members

Posted on January 09, 2008
CALI's Director of Membership, LaVonne Molde has pointed out that in my talk at AALS and in my slides, I list CALI as having only 206 U.S. law school members when that number should actually be 208! Click here for the complete list and if you are a student or faculty at a law school that is NOT a member ...

2008 Annual CALI Members Meeting - Screencast Version

Posted on January 09, 2008
Here is the link to the screencast version of my talk at the 2008 Annual CALI Members Meeting held on Friday, January 5, 2008 in New York during AALS. I had previously posted the podcast/audio recording and Powerpoint slides.

Podcast of AALS Session: Rethinking Legal Education For The 21st Century

Posted on January 07, 2008
Here ... AALS2008Carnegie.mp3 ... is the recording of the AALS Session: Rethinking Legal Education For The 21st Century. The speakers included... Moderator: Edward L. Rubin, Vanderbilt University Law School Speakers: Vicki C. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center Robert Mac Crate, Esq...

CALI 2008 Annual Members Meeting - CALI and Carnegie

Posted on January 06, 2008
Here is the recording of my talk at the 2008 Annual Membership Meeting for CALI during AALS in New York, NY on January 5, 2008 ... AALS2008CALIBreakfast.mp3 Here are the slides ... 2008AALSBreakfast_final.ppt I will be posting a screencast version soon and posting more information about ELangdell into the future...

Mayer Family Sings the 12 Days of Christmas - Think of the Children!!!

Posted on December 30, 2007
The Family was over to the house to celebrate Christmas yesterday. One of our many annual traditions is to sing the 12 days of Christmas with different individuals/groups handling each "number". Others are tasked to try to confuse them with alternate lyrics ...

Advice to (soon-to-be) Dean Chemerinsky of UC-Irvine

Posted on October 02, 2007
Paul Caron, blog-emperor and CALI Board Member asked me to contribute to the fascinating thread about "Advice to Erwin Chemerinsky". The biggest constraint was the 250 word limit.... here's my advice... As the Executive Director of CALI, I read a lot of feedback from students that pertains to their perceptions of legal education...

Announcing Elangdell: Berkman Center, CALI Announce New Partnership to Create A Legal Education Commons

Posted on June 19, 2007
I am so excited to make this post. Here's the press release. Cambridge, MA ? Today at the 17th annual CALI Conference on Law School Computing, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the non-profit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) proudly announced a new partnership to stimulate innovation in American law schools through a new educational resource sharing platform...

Rate My Lawyer Site Gets Sued.... but a CALI Award Will Increase Your Score!

Posted on June 09, 2007
What does the new website, Avvo, which rates lawyers and CALI Awards have to do with each other? Read on...A new website, Avvo (shortened "avvocato" which is italian for lawyer) purports to rank lawyers based on objective algorithmic evidence...

What if Law Schools Bid For Law Students?

Posted on June 06, 2007
Techcrunch mentions a new service called Usphere where undergrads can pay $65 to apply to 33 unnamed colleges. The colleges then send acceptances letters (or not) with the costs of tuition that the student would pay. LSAC (Law School Admissions Council and purveyors of the LSAT) has had a service for a long time where law students can fill out a single application and have it transmitted to many (most?) law schools that participate in the program...

Rankings for the Rest - Measuring Teaching Impact

Posted on June 04, 2007
Professor Leiter is conducting a study of law faculty scholarly productivity (methodology here). The goal (or one goal) is... "...what is the most effective and efficient way to measure the scholarly impact of a law faculty..." What if you replace the word "scholarly" with "teaching"? If you have seen this video...

Ecolanguage, Symbolic Languages and Educating Lawyers Without Text

Posted on May 24, 2007
I ran across Lee Arnold's video explaining the Bush Tax Cut some months ago and felt that it conveyed a complex topic with extreme clarity in a very short amount of time. I was gratified to see that Arnold has a series of videos on YouTube that you can access from here...

2007 Law Student Podcast Survey Results

Posted on May 24, 2007
I have compiled the results from the 2007 Survey of Law Students who were in podcasted courses. First, the number of students responding was a less than half from last year (120 in 2007 vs. 300 in 2006). A couple of interesting trends are noticable. More students knew about podcasting this time around...