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  • About Me

    Hello, my name is Will Monroe, and I am the Head of Instructional Technology at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. I have not written for a blog before and I am very excited to have been asked to do so here during the month of May.…

  • “+1” for Google+?

    Well, as so often happens with me, my goal of posting every week this month fell through.  But for this, my last post, I want to look at social media.  One of my first projects when I was hired as the Educational Technology Librarian last July was to set up our social media presence.  Instinctively…

  • Infographics in Legal Education

    Have you noticed that data use and distribution has hit the mainstream lately?  Data visualization is becoming a popular field of study.  Empirical research is gaining greater ground in fields not usually associated with high levels of data analysis, such as law.  2013 has even been declared the International Year of Statistics.  Perhaps more so…

  • Changing of the Guard

    Hello everyone!  My name is Ashley Ahlbrand, and I’ll be the resident blogger this month!  In this first post, I’ll just introduce myself. I am the Educational Technology Librarian at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.  I began last July, so I’m rounding out my first year.  This is a new position at our library,…

  • The Optimist and the Skeptic

    To generalize wildly, many people who work with educational technology like technology for its own sake. Not all teachers love it quite as much, especially in traditional fields like law. So how do you move from the enthusiasm of the early adopter reaction – “yay! Toys!” – to encourage widespread adoption of useful technologies in…

  • Blending the First-Year Legal Classroom

    Introduction to our Contracts Pilot With all the talk about blended learning, flipped classrooms, and the like, we wanted to visualize what that might look like in the legal classroom, but first lets take a peek at a situation that could be a catalyst for blending a legal classroom. The first-year courses are widely taught…

  • The Rise, Fall, and Re-creation of the Counter-terrorism Simulation (Part 2)

    Part 2: The Re-creation This isn’t a joke!  They are learning!  Aren’t they? Try this. Watch this three-minute video about the Simulation.  Make a note every time someone mentions learning, learning objective, or outcomes for the students. Make another note when someone says something about a feature or a technology we used.  Who wins? “Were the students learning?”…

  • The Rise, Fall, and Re-creation of the Counter-terrorism Simulation (Part 1)

    Sometimes, we get lost in the excitement of technologies. When you’re a hammer, all you see is nails, right?.  It’s like that for us.  Every problem or situation we see can be “improved” with technology. Last year at CALI, I talked a little about this… the “shiny object syndrome” we often develop… looking for places…

  • Introductions are in order

    Hey everyone, my name is Aaron Dewald, and I’ll be the poster for Dec/Jan. I thought I’d take a minute to introduce myself and let you know what I’ll be writing about over the next month or so. About Me I work at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.  I’m…

  • MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs

    Talk about an acronym that’s fun to say! MOOCs are a popular term in educations these days. A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. I first learned about MOOCs through the eduMOOC last year so I could learn more about online learning. Since then, MOOCs have been featured in national news sources and discussed at…

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