August 25, 2008
Summer is over and the new students have arrived…
What’s new at Albany Law School?
- Instead of attending a Computer Orientation, students read a letter in WebAdvisor about computing services and then are emailed their network and email passwords.
- Instead of waiting in a long line outside my office to have their laptops set up for wireless Internet access, students can connect themselves to albanylaw_students by putting in a password.
- We have context-less log ins on all lab computers – rather than bfranklin.cl10 , it is just bfranklin -same as email user name.
- Most orientation sessions were digitally recorded.
- HelpDesk@albanylaw.edu is the one place to go to get help for all technology-related problems.
- Computer Resources is now called: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
- More to come…
Have a great year 
!!
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August 22, 2008
Eugene Volkh explains in his blog about his no laptop experiment – http://volokh.com/posts/1219262733.shtml#417668
Here’s his rule:
(1) no laptops in class
(2) one student per day will take notes [on a laptop,] which will then be circulated to the entire class.
Even more interesting is this comment:
This is what I love about blogs. 138 comments on a subject that no one who isn’t in Prof. Volokh’s class should care about at all. What a country!
Today’s Law School Innovations blog also has a post on Volkh’s experiment – http://lsi.typepad.com/lsi/2008/08/experimenting-w.html with a great comment from Prof. Michael L. Perlin of New York Law School:
The world has changed. We need to accept that and move on.
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August 7, 2008
from: http://www.collexis.com/news/press06-08-08.htm
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 – Lawriter, LLC a subsidiary of Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS) announced today the development of the first professional social network exclusively for law students. The site www.CasemakerX.com was showcased in Beta format at the American Association of Law Librarians Conference in Portland in July. A full launch is expected in early fall 2008 to coincide with the incoming class of new law students. Along with the social networking site, CasemakerX will provide free access to the Casemaker Suite of Applications for the U.S. law student community.
“CasemakerX is an exciting new legal information product that law students and faculty will find useful,” said Duncan Alford, associate dean and director of the law library at the University Of South Carolina School Of Law. “The social networking portion of CasemakerX is reminiscent of LinkedIn, but with the electronic content of primary federal and state law. The upcoming introduction of legal thesaurus
searching will make the searching capabilities even more sophisticated and the success of the Collexis search engine and fingerprinting technology in medical research shows exciting promise for legal research.”
CasemakerX is a free service for law students supported by the Casemaker Bar Consortium and its 475,000 attorney members across the U.S. Law students, faculty and law librarians can sign up for the site and register from accredited Law Schools. Once a profile is created, users are networked by areas like corresponding law school, fields of interest, graduation year, etc. Users can also enjoy a host of social networking components including capabilities like blogging, instant messaging, photo sharing, job postings, video streaming via YouTube™, and iPhone plug-ins. Lawriter’s Casemaker suite of legal discovery products is available on the site and includes a library of over 12 Million documents in federal and state case law. The site also includes the recently released Casemaker Medical application, with full text search of over 15 Million biomedical abstracts.
“We are pleased to host this community for the next generation of attorneys,” said Steve Newsom general manager for Lawriter. “Our mission is to help law students succeed – connecting with their peers, their teachers, and the external attorney community to advance their education and career goals.”
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August 5, 2008
The 19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing (a.k.a. The CALI
Conference) will be held at the University of Colorado Law School in
Boulder, Colorado on Thursday-Saturday, June 18-20, 2009.
The conference will be held in the brand new Wolf Law Building which
was dedicated in September of 2006 and features state-of-the-art
classrooms and high-tech facilities that fit the theme of the
conference that focuses on technology and innovation in legal
education.
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