Category Archives: CALI Tools

Mr Mayer Goes to Washington

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Sarah Glassmeyer

On April 16, 2013, The White House and The Legal Services Corporation co-hosted an event titled “A White House Forum on Increasing Access to Justice.” CALI’s Executive Director John Mayer attended the event and spoke on a panel that discussed … Continue reading →

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Updates Released for CALI LessonLink

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Elmer Masters

LessonLink is a CALI tool that allows faculty members to view student scores, completion rates and usage of CALI Lessons. Faculty can create a LessonLink with the push of a button – the system then creates a unique web address … Continue reading →

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CALI’s A2J Author Used to Assist Victims of Identity Theft

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Sarah Glassmeyer

From a Press Release by the National Identity Theft Victims Assistance Network (NITVAN): 8.3 million Americans become identity theft victims each year. Legal resources available to identity theft victims are limited. To help respond to the need, the National Identity … Continue reading →

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Setting Up Microsoft Word 2010 To Post To Classcaster

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Elmer Masters

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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2013 Federal Rules by LII Now Available on eLangdell

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Sarah Glassmeyer

Once again, CALI is proud to partner with our friends at the Legal Information Institute to provide free ebooks of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence. The 2013 Editions … Continue reading →

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Professor Created Course Materials Survey

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Sarah Glassmeyer

As you may know, one of the projects we work on here at CALI is eLangdell Press, which creates and distributes open law school casebooks. We do this because we believe educational materials should be Open – that is to … Continue reading →

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How Law Schools Could Save Students $150 Million (updated)

Posted on July 18, 2012 by John Mayer

There are over 140,000* law students in the 201 ABA accredited law schools in the US. According to the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), higher education students spend an average of $1100 per year on books. Do the math and … Continue reading →

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CALI Annual Report & Infographic (A Message from John)

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Austin Groothuis

The 2011-2012 school year was a landmark year at CALI. I am, of course, thinking of the fact that we were founded 30 years ago, but 2012 is significant in more ways than an anniversary that happens to end with … Continue reading →

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900 CALI Lessons and Counting

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Austin Groothuis

We just published our 900th CALI Lesson on cali.org! The 900th lesson was Professor Steve Bradford’s “Inventory and the Cost of Goods Sold.” This is a true milestone for CALI. Congratulations to Professor Bradford on another great lesson, and to … Continue reading →

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Learn to Make Ebooks at CALIcon12

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Austin Groothuis

It’s getting easier to publish ebooks using freely available tools like Sigil and Calibre. What’s this have to do with your law school? Think open, ebook versions of your law reviews, journals, or custom course materials. All published in-house and … Continue reading →

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