Category Archives: CALI Spotlight

Posts by CALI staffers. Thoughts, opinions, and ideas about technology and innovation in legal education.

Mid-Semester Blues….

We’re just about at the half-way point for the Fall Semester, which for law students means it’s time to get serious about understanding and organizing class materials and notes.  Remember – no matter how smart you are, you’re not going … Continue reading

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Why Does My Password Never Work?

Has this happened to you?  You’re settling in for a nice long session on CALI to study (or maybe you’re a professor getting ready to create some LessonLinks.)  You go to log into the site and….password denied. You try again.  … Continue reading

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It’s Never Too Early in the Semester to Start Taking CALI Lessons

If you haven’t been warned yet, law school exams are not like undergraduate exams. If you were able to get by with cramming the night (or even week) before finals, unfortunately that’s not going to work now.  Even if it … Continue reading

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What the Heck is CALI???

Greetings to new and returning law students and faculty!  I know this month is filled with new, exciting (and maybe even scary) changes.  It’s also filled with INFORMATION OVERLOAD.  In case you missed it, hopefully in your orientation materials there … Continue reading

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We’re Rolling out A2J Author Version 5.0!!!

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and the Center for Access to Justice and Technology at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law (CAJT) will be rolling out the new version of A2J Author® for the legal aid community this Friday, … Continue reading

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CALIcon14 is a Wrap!

Yes, another CALIcon has come and gone. Thank you so much for attending! I kept hearing the phrase “my people” in sessions and hallways of CALIcon and that’s ultimately what CALI and CALIcon is about – Community. And we couldn’t … Continue reading

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It’s 2am..Do You Know Where Your CALI Authorization Code Is?

It’s the moooooooost wonderful tiiiiiiiiiiiime of the yeeeeeeeeear! Yes, law school finals time!  Well, it’s wonderful for us at CALI®, maybe not so much for law students taking the exams and the law professors that will have to grade them … Continue reading

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Teaching Law Students to Program?

One of the more controversial suggestions in legal education reform is the idea that law students should learn computer programming.  Critics wonder what possible use this could have.  Are future lawyers going to have to build their own tools?  Is … Continue reading

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Open Education Week 2014

Happy Open Education Week! What is Open Education? Education, of course, is transferring  knowledge and skills through formal and informal means. Open, when used in the context of information or technology, means that something is monetarily free so there’s no … Continue reading

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For Your Consideration…

It’s that time of year when up and comers and even older reliable stars have ads and phone calls placed on their behalf in the hopes that this will be the year that they are picked. No, I’m not talking … Continue reading

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