Category Archives: CALI Spotlight

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

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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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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