CALI Offers Free Webinars

Every couple of weeks, CALI hosts a free online presentation on a subject related to technology and innovation in legal education aimed at law school faculty and staff!

coming April 10,2009 – MediaNotes

March 27, 2009 – Online Tools for Engaging Students - tools like Google Moderator as well as other group question tools and CALI’s very own Instapoll.

March 13, 2009 – CALI’s Executive Director, John Mayer, runs through Podcasting in the Classroom and Classcaster, CALI’s free (to CALI member schools) podcasting/blogging system.

February 27, 2009 –  Gene Koo, CALI/Berkman Fellow, introduces the Legal Education Commons.

Annual Conference for Law School Computing

“This year’s conference is all about change – transformational change.  It is time to put the divisiveness of laptops in the classroom behind us. It is time to face our fears. Fear of USNews ranks, fear of the student debt implosion, fear of technology and change itself. It’s time to consider the ideas of Carnegie and decide how technology impacts professionalism and ethics in legal education. What does transformation mean to you and your institution and does technology have a central or supporting role in accomplishing our goals?” – John Mayer

The Keynote Speaker will be Paul Maharq

Some of topics at the conference will be:

• technology in the classroom
• distance learning
•  exams on computers/policy and technlogies
• video annotation of student performance
• custom course materials and ebooks
• content management, course management, community management systems
• software patents in education
•  webcams and videoconferencing
• main campus computing negotiations
• clickers in the classroom
• the zen of classroom presentations
• everything is digital
• open commons education
• iTunes U

More info on the conference is located here:  http://www2.cali.org/index.php?fuseaction=conference.home

Professor Moriarty and I decided to to a presentation on his CPS/Clicker experience.  University of Texas School of Law also submitted an RFP to do a clicker presention.  They use Turning Point Audience Response Systems.   We decided to share the limelight and share the time slot.  The attendees will learn about 2 clicker experiences and 2 different technology tools.

WiZiQ

This my blogging presentation. Click here to watch it.

WiZiQ is 100% web based with no download or installation requisites. It enables its members to Learn & Teach from home, and live through internet. As a member on WiZiQ you can:

1. Invite your contacts to build your network
2. Schedule online sessions/discussions with your contacts
3. Use Virtual Classroom to conduct sessions live

Love This Message: “This stuff is too easy not to use”

This is from a post by Scott McLeod on the Tech Learning Blog and on his Dangerously Irrelevant Blog.  Here is the conclusion of the post in which he described a workshop that he did for faculty entitled: “Fun With Audio.”

“This stuff is getting too easy not to use. Faculty members …don’t tend to be very tech-savvy. With the right approach, however, we can get them using, and thus exposing future educators to, these tools. My audio demonstration took about eight minutes, I never mentioned the word ‘podcast,’ and I had a ton of questions and interest at the end.

We can do this. Share the love, share your knowledge: adopt a professor today.” 

I can’t wait to hear about next month’s workshop on ”YouTube QuickCapture!“