August 28, 2008 • 7:09 pm 1
From the folks at CALI:
YouTube – How to Create at CALI Account
CALI is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of law schools that researches and develops computer-mediated legal instruction and supports institutions and individuals using technology and distance learning in legal education.
Filed under: Law School, Teaching, Technology
August 27, 2008 • 1:52 pm 0
The folks at CALI wanted you to remember that Classcaster may fit all your blogging and podcasting needs. From the announcement:
Classcaster provides a solution for faculty, librarians, and technologists who are looking for a simple, advertisement-free, educationally-focused, and vendor neutral blogging and podcasting platform. Classcaster’s features include:
– multiple authors per blog
– multiple blogs per author
– unique URLs
– fully customizable templates
– unlimited storage for podcasts and files
– iTunes-compatible RSS2 news feeds
– automated telephone recording to podcast system
– direct access to Classcaster developer (that’d be me)
– and more….All you need to get started is a CALI web account. Visit
http://www.classcaster.org/ or check out the Classcaster FAQ at
http://www.classcaster.org/?op=display&page=faq for more details.
Filed under: Law School, Teaching, Technology, Web 2.0, blog
August 25, 2008 • 2:07 pm 0
The Law Librarian Blog alerts us to two new Human Rights Reports:
1. A report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and
2. A report by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Filed under: Cool links, News
August 22, 2008 • 6:34 pm 0
As of this month we will no longer receive paper copies of CJS or of court reports, neither in advance sheets nor bound volumes, EXCEPT Maryland Reports, Maryland Appellate Reports, U. S. Reports, and one copy of the Supreme Court Reporter. No regional reporters and no federal reporters below the Supreme Court.
Filed under: Library
August 19, 2008 • 5:10 pm 0
Over the summer, a number of classrooms were outfitted with “Smart Boards.” Please, please, please DO NOT write on them with regular white board markers! Doing so will render them inoperable.
Filed under: Law School, News
August 18, 2008 • 5:47 pm 0
The Law Librarian Blog alerts us to some blogs from Nolo Press, which publishes a bunch of self-help materials. Check them out.
Filed under: Cool links, Web 2.0, blog
August 12, 2008 • 2:42 pm 0
From the Law Library Blog:
Zotero is a Firefox 3 extension for collecting and managing research
sources. When integrated with word processing applications, Zotero will
creates citations in Bluebook format. Features include
- Automatic capture of citation information from web pages, library catalogs, online databases, and digital archives
- Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages
- Flexible notetaking with autosave
- Fast, as-you-type search through your materials
- Playlist-like library organization, including saved searches and tags
- Citation formatting and bibliography creation
- Integration with Microsoft Word and other applications and web tools
Filed under: Web 2.0
August 1, 2008 • 3:54 pm 0
Get your Hein tutorials on YouTube – HeinOnline08’s Channel.
It might just be the geek in me, but I think it’s pretty neat.
Filed under: Cool links, Web 2.0, legal research, video
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