Category Archives: CALI Spotlight

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

Coming to AALS? Join us for CALI’s annual member meeting.

If you’re attending the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, join us Sunday morning for breakfast and a short presentation on CALI’s projects in interactive legal education, e-casebooks, and practicum-based learning. Sunday, January 6, 2013, 7:15-8:30 a.m. River Room, 2nd … Continue reading

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Setting Up Microsoft Word 2010 To Post To Classcaster

Did you know that you can use Word 2010 to write posts for your Classcaster blog? All you need to do is follow 10 steps to setup Word so that it know about your Classcaster blog and you’re in business. … Continue reading

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Notes from a Class Observation

Today I decided to dust off my anthropology degree and do a little fieldwork in a law school class. Why? Well, if we here at CALI want to build the best possible tools for faculty and students to use, it … Continue reading

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Congratulations John Mayer – College of Law Practice Management Fellow!

Here at CALI we don’t do things for glory or fame and we certainly don’t do it for the money.  We do what we do because we want to make legal education and educators better and to increase access to … Continue reading

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A2J Clinic Frequently Asked Questions

We’re very excited by the response we’ve gotten to the Request for Proposals for the new A2J Clinic Program.  Here are some answers to frequently asked questions we’ve received.  If you have any other questions, please don’t hestiate to contact … Continue reading

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CALI at LVI2012

This past week, half of CALI traveled to Ithaca, New York to attend the Law Via the Internet Conference.   LVI is an semi-regular international conference where those involved in making primary legal materials available on the Internet meet to discuss … Continue reading

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End of Guest Accounts at CALI.org

Up until a few hours ago, users had the option of registering as a GUEST at the CALI.org website.  They couldn’t access lessons – that’s always been a benefit just for our members.  The GUEST account option was there in … Continue reading

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Elmer Masters – One of the Fastcase 50!

Congratulations to CALI’s own Director of Internet Development Elmer Masters for being named one of the Fastcase 50!  Created in 2011, the Fastcase 50 is an annual list of the Top 50 of “law’s smartest most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries … Continue reading

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U of Minnesota Releases “Cultivating Change in the Academy”, Highlights Future of the Book

This collection of 50+ chapters showcases a sampling of academic technology projects underway across the University of Minnesota, projects that we hope inspire other faculty and staff to consider, utilize, or perhaps even develop new solutions that have the potential … Continue reading

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Farewell to Austin Groothuis

First of all, it’s pronounced “GREAT-house”, not “grue-THEW-ee-us”. I learned that the first day I met Austin quite a few years ago when CALI hired him as a student intern. Later, we hired Austin into the newly created position of … Continue reading

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