Category Archives: CALI Spotlight

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

Brush Up on CALI

A new semester means a new opportunity to use CALI to help with your classes – whether you are a professor or a law student!  Next week our Director of Community Development, Sarah Glassmeyer, will be hosting two 20 minute … Continue reading

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CALI at Reinvent Law NYC

On February 7, 2014, over 800 people gathered in New York City to hear presentations on “reinventing law.”  The presentations (which ran anywhere from 6 to 15 minutes long) covered a variety of topics. Some were theoretical, some were product … Continue reading

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It’s Always Warm and Sunny on the Internet

Except for those of you in the South of Florida or Southern California, January of 2014 has been one for the record books.  Arctic cold fronts and blizzards have buffeted the majority of us since New Years Day and forecasts … Continue reading

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Open Education 2013 Review

In early November, two of CALI’s staff members – Elmer Masters and me (Sarah Glassmeyer)  – traveled to Park City, Utah to attend the Open Educations Conference.  We presented on our eLangdell Press open casebook publishing project and were also … Continue reading

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Get Ready for Finals

Even though it’s only the end of October, it’s not too early to start planning for final exam time.  Here at CALI, our usage statistics go through the roof starting around Thanksgiving every year.  Accompanying this are lots of questions … Continue reading

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Special Tools on Classcaster

  This week we’ve been spotlighting CALI’s Classcaster in our weekly webinar series.  If you’re not familiar with Classcaster, at its heart is a blogging tool powered by WordPress.  But, as we’re showing in the webinars, it can be used … Continue reading

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Open Access Week Webinars

The week of October 21-27, 2013 is Open Access Week.  This week is an opportunity for those of us involved in the creation and use of scholarly works to learn about the benefits of Open Access.   CALI is a long … Continue reading

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CALI Webinars – Classcaster, Open Access/OER and more!

Please mark your calendars for the following webinars on CALI and legal education related topics.  Webinars will be on Tuesdays at 11 am Central, with a live encore performance at 2pm Central on Fridays.  They are all free to attend … Continue reading

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CALI Lessons – Edit, Make Your Own or See Your Student Scores

As you (hopefully) know, CALI lessons are written and peer reviewed by law professors and librarians.  But did you know that you can still write your own lesson and publish them to our website? We don’t intentionally keep this a … Continue reading

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CALI Excellence for the Future Awards

The CALI Excellence for the Future Award®, often shortened to “The CALI Award” or referred to as “I CALI’d a Class”, is given to the student who receives the highest award in a law school course.  Awards are given at … Continue reading

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