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Materials in motion: Exploring the use of animation in learning
By: Aaron J. Dewald, Originally posted at the Center for Innovation in Legal Education blog A year or so ago, a discussion on Teknoids had started about what defines a video. It was inferred that something needed to move to constitute a video. Do narrated slide shows from Keynote, PowerPoint, etcetera constitute videos? Legal education is going through some interesting changes…
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ABA Techshow 2014 Roundup
One of my favorite conferences every year is the ABA Techshow. For those of us in academic libraries, the Techshow is one of the best opportunities to discover new ways that attorneys are using technology for their work. The Techshow is held in Chicago every spring. The show lasts 3 days, from Thursday through Saturday.…
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Apps in Legal Education
Warning: This post is not all that high-tech, but I did have the opportunity to give an interesting lecture the other day, and I thought I would share my experiences! Our (Indiana University Maurer School of Law) Advanced Legal Research course is relatively new, so the structure of the curriculum is somewhat fluid. While most…
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Do.ne, or what to do when your favorite service disappears
The Chicago-Kent Library Technology Group runs many kinds of projects. Keeping track of what’s going on in individual projects can be challenging. We needed a cloud-based service for project management, something that could: Track projects and tasks Let us assign tasks to individual workers Comment on tasks when we had questions or more information. We…
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Improving Presentations (or videos, or other multimedia) with Learning Science
Note: This blog post was derived from a presentation I gave at the New York Law School. I was invited by Doni Gewirtzman and Kris Franklin to speak about the impact of learning science on the creation of presentations. I realized there are many nuances to the use of presentations. Some lecture with them, some…
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The Working Group on Distance Learning in Legal Education Fall Meeting
On September 13, I attended the Working Group on Distance Learning in Legal Education fall meeting that was held in the North Carolina Central University Law School. Although the conference was small, it was highly informative. I learned a great deal about the current state of technology, regulations, pedagogy, and best practices for distance learning for law…
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Dynamic Learning Environment (Jason Fiske, Guest Blogger)
Thank you for bearing with me for the last couple of posts! I have previously discussed the present – how we organize our courses – now I shift to the future. As the Program Director of Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Online Graduate Program I am constantly looking for ways to improve information delivery to…
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De-Aggregation Method (Jason Fiske, Guest Blogger)
Since you are now reading this I can assume that either I did not completely bore you out of your mind in my first blog, or you are ignorant to my first blog post and I now have a new opportunity to bore you. Can’t wait! I thought I would now spend one blog talking…
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To New Beginnings (Jason Fiske, Guest Blogger)
Hello everyone, my name is Jason Fiske and I am the Program Director for Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s online Graduate Program in International Taxation and Financial Services. I have taught a couple of dozen courses online and am now constantly searching for scalable solutions for implementation of optimal online pedagogy. I will discuss our…
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Working Group for Distance Learning in Legal Education
For the last two years, it’s seemed as if someone changed my job description without telling me. I work in the same office. The faculty composition is mostly the same. But the discussion about legal and online education changed. It’s easy to find articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Huffington…
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