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Using instructive examples from real life, this panel will engage the audience in a broad ranging discussion about communications dos and don'ts. How do you promote the library or IT department when given an opportunity? What are some tips for spotting a "political" question? How do you discuss library and technology needs in austere times? How do you respond to unflattering comments? Join an experienced panel and a room full of your colleagues to discuss these and other communication challenges and opportunities.

A2J Author was created by the CALI team in 2004 to provide a pro se litigant friendly front end for document assembly. It has been used more than 3.5 million times in the past 13 years. However, it was written in Flash, which has quickly been deprecated across the web. CALI partnered with Bitovi, a team of Javascript developers and UX designers, to revamp A2J Author as a web based authoring environment with its own internal document assembly tool.

This session will explore the process of integrating an outside development team into an existing software project. We'll explore how Bitovi used CanJS, a JavaScript architectural library, to move A2J Author away from a Flash code base, toward a more modular component based model that's easier to implement, re-use, and test. We'll talk about how we use tools like Github, Gitlab, Slack, Screenhero, Google Hangouts, and GoToMeeting to work with a team of developers all over the world and maintain a growing code base.

The presenter is a reference librarian and legal research instructor, and she coordinates the social media for a law school library.

Our own social media presences are among the models law students look to, when figuring out how to market themselves and their future practices.

The traditional emphasis of social media advice on "what not to post" and "how to be unfindable online" will be gently subverted in favor of "what to post" and "how to build trust, open up, and reach out."

Attendees who manage individual or organizational social media will leave with a trove of ideas for what to post, how to reach out, and how to have more fun with social media while staying professional.

The core of any online course or program is its course design. Learn how Thomas Jefferson School of Law's online Graduate Programs achieve 90% retention through effective online course design. Learn about the following:

1) Orientation to courses
2) Optimal UI (user-interface) flow
3) Developing design through the ADDIE method
4) Optimal discussion forum design
5) And more..........

Asynchronous content delivery now pervades almost every corner of higher education, including legal education. Today’s modern learning management system, coupled with cloud-based platforms supporting rich multimedia delivery of content, provide us with the opportunity to deliver an asynchronous law school course that rivals and even, in some respects, exceeds the effectiveness of the traditional law school classroom. That’s all well and good. However, the lessons we’ve learned in delivering distance learning under Standard 306 may also provide us with new and improved tools to “flip” the traditional law school classroom, thereby dramatically improving its effectiveness. There is substantial learning science supporting the idea of moving lecture content (pure information transfer) out of the classroom to the greatest extent possible, thereby maximizing the classroom time available for interactive, student-centered learning opportunities. While the flipped classroom is not a particularly new idea, the technology and techniques available to deliver content prior to class have improved dramatically, especially within legal education. In this presentation, I will talk about tools and techniques for effective asynchronous class preparation in support of classroom flipping, as well as tools and techniques for maximizing the value of the interactive flipped classroom.

I think it's time for another tech talk at CALI! This session will primarily cover pfSense, HaProxy and Snort. These three tools can work together to protect and extend the capabilities of your network. They are all also open source and thus, freely available.

I will cover how to set up: a firewall, high availability and load balanced web sites, VPN connections (with or without two factor), and inline intrusion detection with real time blocking!

As these solutions can be deployed locally, either on physical hardware or virtual platforms, as well as the cloud, we expect this session to be beneficial to everyone, especially those on ever decreasing budgets!

In addition to going through a setup and various configuration options, I will be taking questions and offering assistance in how these tools can improve your setup!

In an increasingly mobile-first world, speed is everything. In this session I'll talk about the 2 biggest advances in web speed, one for the web in general (HTTP2) and one specifically for mobile (Google's AMP Project).

I'll show you how HTTP2 can speed up any website without touching any of the website code (just a server config)

Next I'll show you how AMP can make your web pages load instantly to mobile users.

Dance a little too hard the night before?  Forearms tired from bowling? Didn’t get to play because you left early to check on work (as one does)?  Take a moment to grab your breakfast and then focus on YOU. This session aims to be refreshing and rejuvenating – Use this time to learn some self-care principles and practical tips that will not only help your body but also stimulate your mind as you find creative approaches to your unique challenges in legal education.

    We will spend 45 minutes doing what I like to call “chair yoga” – learn breath control techniques to calm nerves, stretches to release tension, and other mindful principles that you can practice right at your desk when you get back home.
    Bonus: A fun little gift bag to help keep the fun going long after the session is over (not kidding; I will have gift bags for anyone who shows up!)

This panel discussion will talk about our recent experience with starting up online courses at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Touro Law Center and the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

Many times we implement technology for a specific purpose, and then find unintended benefits along the way. Unintended consequences create outcomes that were not planned at the outset of a particular action. We welcome unexpected benefits, and we will demonstrate scenarios where we discovered “hidden treasures” that exceeded our original intent. Technologies to be discussed will include lecture capture software, polling software, cloud storage, etc.

We plan to share some background for why we initially adopted several new technologies, and then discuss the unexpected value of these technologies. We would love to hear from others who have found their own booty and/or fools gold.

PlayPosit is a delightful online platform that allows users to add interactive questions, video branching, and rich media into a video timeline. Videos can be pulled from major platforms like YouTube, Kaltura, TedEd, or uploaded to the site. With integrations to most learning management systems, it’s easy for Instructional Design teams and professors to quickly create videos that include a formative assessment component, making learning more interesting, engaging, and fun (yes, even in law school).

Come hear how the University of Arizona and Loyola Law School Los Angles are using this simple yet powerful tool to create videos to teach everything from legal concepts to practical skills.

Your school has decided to build an online component to a law program or even an online or hybrid LL.M., and you’ve been selected to lead the project! What next?

Jena and Jessica will take you through their experiences as the point people to develop online programming in their law-related programs at their institutions, including the design, curricular and marketing challenges that your institution may face when developing similar programs. Along the way, they will share their “I wish I had known this when I started” insights, including Jena's walk-through of the ABA acquiescence process for a new online LL.M at West Virginia University and Jessica’s integration of technology systems that enable real-time, synchronous learning activities at Abraham Lincoln University.

This session will go into the technical design of integrated distance technology in classrooms and it's use for both pedagogical and organizational needs.

I would like to present about the first ever video game on-line criminal procedure course. Here's its webpage that gives you a sense of the course. http://www.law.msu.edu/game/

Gamification of online education presents important issues about how law should be taught, the advantages of online platforms over brick and mortar educational formats--as well as educational regulatory issues of minute-counting for students.

Given the ever-changing landscape of IT services these days, some may wonder if they still need dedicated IT personnel at a law school. Some IT workers at law schools may feel threatened by the growth of cloud services, central campus IT expansions, and subscription-based operating systems and applications historically managed by law school IT departments. Is IT Ops really dying or dead at your law school? This panel will discuss the changing focus of law school IT and how the departments can change to offer real value-added services to their law school mission.

QuizWright is a web app that lets teachers write individual MC, T/F, Y/N questions, saves the questions in a personal question bank, allows teachers to bundle the questions into quizzes, turns the quizzes into AutoPublish Lessons that are published to the CALI website and run by students either as LessonLive or LessonLink assessments.

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It is time to think in new ways about mobile devices and cloud storage. With the right program in place and guidance from your IT organization, students, faculty members and administrative offices can find new efficiency in non-paper solutions. Two IT directors from Campbell Law and Duke Law describe hardware/software programs designed to do just that.
Larry Essary will describe Campbell Law’s partnerships with Sony’s Digital Paper (portable pdf editor) and Citrix’ ShareFile (cloud storage). Essary is working to identify a variety of uses of these technologies, which to date include faculty grading of final exams, weekly legal writing assignments, and bar preparation essays. Faculty and staff have also used the Digital Paper to “carry” hundreds of pages of materials when they travel to conferences, while retaining the ability to markup pages and save them for later review or sharing with colleagues. Effectiveness and efficiency are achieved by not printing documents, allowing faculty members to grade anywhere at any time and not using email resources for providing access to the document by faculty and student. The Digital Paper’s Wi-Fi capability and a ShareFile app for the DP allow for automatic synchronization, so that changes to files are safe, even if the DP is lost or damaged. Internal storage has the capacity for thousands of pdf documents and there is a micro SD slot for further expansion. Another potential use case is student notetaking. Several scientific studies have shown that information retention can be increased when taking notes by hand, rather than typing on a laptop. Again, having a digital copy for easy review and sharing is an additional benefit.
Wayne Miller will discuss Duke Law’s Digital First project, which makes use of iPad Minis and Box.com. The outlines of this initiative were discussed at last year’s CALI. In the context of this presentation, we will look specifically at the “workflows” developed to support a variety of courses. A workflow is a carefully vetted and documented set of steps used to satisfy an identified exercise or project need. Data is stored on and retrieved from students’ Duke Box accounts for use within selected apps. We will look at the details of workflows for knowledge management, image and document capture, annotation, recording, videoconferencing, and collaborative authoring. In one course, rather than create workflows, Academic Technologies staff members consulted with individual students regarding their software and presentation needs. The project continues to evolve with new courses and improving software.

In 1996, CALI offered 100 lessons that schools installed on desktops in their computer labs using discs that CALI mailed to each school.

Today, the range of materials and the scope of tools available from CALI has expanded. CALI offers over 1000 lessons that work across many platforms in 35 areas of the law, free OER casebooks written by leading scholars, faculty podcasts, and A2J Author® that allows law students to build web-based interfaces for document assembly. Plus there are tools to track and assess your students' learning, or to create your own course blog or casebook.

Using a quasi random outcome generator with a headgear enabled selection mechanism, and a dead tree facilitated array in a dexterity-based selection algorithm, CALI's products, course materials, and features will be explained and demonstrated.

Colorado Law takes our ethical obligations seriously to protect the confidential client data for our legal clinics. In theory, this is straightforward, but in practice it is a real challenge when faced with protecting this data across 120 practicing student attorneys with limited resources. Join Colorado Law’s Clinical Programs Manager and Senior IT Director for a look at the past, present, and future of their Secure Desktop solution.

After trying everything from a shared network drive, encrypting student devices, and VMWare we found success at last with a terminal services remote desktop solution utilizing a browser-based client using Ericom’s AccessNow technology. Each of our student attorneys have access to their own secure desktop within their web browser across any device. Complexity is the enemy to good security and this simple solution has significantly increased our adoption.

This session will outline our secure desktop infrastructure and we will consider the challenges we faced from both the clinical program manager and IT perspectives.

As more and more states take note of ABA Standard RPC 1.1 Comment [8] and add state level rules which require that lawyers have basic technology competency, more law schools are responding and adding technology courses to their course offerings. This session will be discussing three major themes aimed at teaching a new technology course. Michael Robak will offer a walkthrough of the approval process for proposing a new technology course and offer tips for getting faculty and administrative officials onboard. Nichelle "Nikki" Perry will discuss methods and options for choosing your course content. Not all classes need to cover the same content! Knowing where and how your students will practice can make a difference in class coverage. Stacey Rowland will give an overview of a recently taught course at the University of North Carolina discussing technology for new lawyers. This course covered topics such as Advanced Legal Research through Ravel and Bloomberg Law Litigation Analytics, using Word Styles as a foundation for document automation, asking students to construct a mock law firm website, litigation support services as well as hands on experience with CLIO and kCura's Relativity. Our panel will offer a postmortem of our courses and share our experiences with other schools who are looking to develop a similar class.