Proposed Sessions
| Session | Speaker(s) | Experience level | Session Track | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Future of Legal Technology Education | Doug Lusk |
Legal Technology is a hot topic that doesn't get enough coverage at conferences. |
Beginner | Technology |
| Can 10,000 Law Students Solve the Access to Justice Gap? | John Mayer |
The Access to Justice Gap is a thoroughly documented phenomenon. So is the lack of experiential learning in legal education. The theme of this conference is "Engaging Law Students With Tech". ... |
Beginner | Experiential Learning |
| 25 Free Technologies for Law Libraries | Eliza Fink |
Presented by Eliza Fink and Avery Le, this program will introduce 25 free technologies for law libraries, highlighting new features of the most popular technologies such as Kahoot! |
Beginner | Technology |
| The Monster under the Bed – The data you didn’t know you had | Chad Covey |
In 2016, Health and Human Services begin to attach a cost to organizations not knowing what data they had, and while information technology is a large component of data security regulation, it is... |
Beginner | |
| Digital Preservation: More than just backing stuff up | Jason Eiseman |
Digital preservation is an important topic for libraries, but many librarians and IT staff don't have a full view of what digital preservation looks like in practice. |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| Revisiting the Rich Syllabus | Patrick Wiseman |
This session revisits a topic on which Prof. Wiseman presented many years ago. It should be of interest to any faculty member who wants to provide students with substantial online content. |
Intermediate | Course Management |
| BLOCKCHAIN IS SO 2017 - LEGAL CRYPTOTECH FOR THE MODERN LAW SCHOOL | Deborah Ginsberg |
We heard a lot about blockchain in 2017, but that's just one of several cryptotechologies that will have a profound impact on the practice of law in the near future. In this session, we will... |
Intermediate | Technology |
| Asymmetries in Information Literacy Between Law Students and Faculty: A Research Agenda | Lora Johns |
Anecdotally at least, law students and law faculty approach the interaction of law and technology in uniquely different ways. For example, law professors are more likely than students to think... |
Beginner | |
| Overabundance in Instructional Design and Educational Technology -- Assessing the Best Approaches to Lesson Construction in Order to Fully Engage Your Students | Ashley Ahlbrand |
When it comes to educational technology, we're living in an age of abundance. We have any number of competing slideware products, video creation and editing software, animation software, and more... |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| Faculty Scholarship Collection and Reporting Improved Process | David McGeehan |
A team of deans, faculty, librarians, and staff collaborated to re-engineer a law school’s faculty scholarship collection and reporting process. The team assessed and documented the existing... |
Intermediate | Case Studies |
| How Library Workshops Can Evolve to Prepare Students for 21st Century Practice | Nicole Downing |
Librarians have a wealth of knowledge that we attempt to impart on students during their three years in law school. However, we are constantly competing for their attention. |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| The Redoing Project: How to use Assessment Results to Drive Change and Overcome Resistance | Joshua Pluta, Gordon Russell |
As new accreditation standards, both from the ABA and the regional accreditors, drive schools to conduct more and more assessment at all levels of the organization, we find ourselves bathed in... |
Intermediate | Technology |
| Deliver Results and Demonstrate Value with Agile Project Management | Morgan Stoddard |
Agile project management is a set of methods and methodologies that helps teams to think more effectively, work more efficiently, and make better decisions. |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| Develop Yourself: Roll Your Own Software Solutions with LiveCode | Andrew Bell |
Modern students are digital natives who thrive on round the clock electronic information access. |
Beginner | Technology |
| Online Learning: Synchronous or Asynchronous? | Duane Strojny |
Learn about sucesses and misses when it comes to online learning formats. Should class be live with actual interaction between the faculty and students or should class be canned so students can... |
Beginner | Technology |
| Visual communication is exploding but is anyone paying attention? | Zanada Joyner |
Visual communication rules our relationship to technology. As presenters, we know that we rely on images, animated GIFs, video content to express, demonstrate, or explain relevant concepts while... |
Beginner | Technology |
| Shaping a Social Media Policy for Student Groups | Christine George, Christine Arlene Arrozal |
With the onset of law students who are digital natives, it’s not surprising that student groups are taking to social media. |
Intermediate | Case Studies |
| The nuts and bolts of doing a citation and semantic network analysis of international criminal law decisions: More fun than it sounds | John Heywood |
This is a case study on an ongoing project to study a body of international criminal case judgments, constructing a semantic network analysis of their citations in order to show whether or not a "... |
Intermediate | Case Studies |
| Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: From Slides to Instructional Videos | Emily Barney |
Converting slides to videos can save time when repurposing training workshops. Or it can make it easier to design videos from scratch. I'll cover software, visual resources /design tips, and some... |
Beginner | Technology |
| Building CALI Dashboards: Leveraging custom Drupal Views to increase access to member data | Elmer Masters |
This session will take a look at the challenges and code behind bringing 11,000,000 rows of Lesson data into Drupal Views and then leveraging that access to create meaningful reports. |
Intermediate | Technology |
| IT Leadership 101 | Tom Ryan |
This session will offer an exciting dive into effective IT Leadership. Topics will include, but are not limited to; "Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do... |
Beginner | |
| UNT Dallas Law Review: Two Online Journals with very Different Missions | Edward Hart |
The UNT Dallas Law Review embraces two very different missions in the two online publications established by the new law schools' students. |
Intermediate | Technology |
| Online Student Success is not just Faculty Responsibility | Jacquie Carroll, Minara Mordecai |
Recent ABA proposal to allow for more distance education in law school JD programing has opened the door to new opportunities and challenges as it relates to schools rethinking online education.... |
Beginner | Course Management |
