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Last week was all about education. True, every week in my job is about education. But last week it was about education on the road. My teachers were 8th graders, paralegal educators and The Big Bang Theory.

CALI Lessons’ Self-Publish Option Gets an Upgrade

CALI Lessons are created using CALI Author, a software that faculty and staff at member schools can use freely. We just released CALI Author 4.1.8. CALI Author's AutoPublish feature lets you customize an existing CALI Lesson or create your own original, self-publish your creation, share it with your students, and track its usage. Read about AutoPublish improvements.

Coming soon: new CALI blog, more posts by CALI staffers.

With so many combined years of experience in this space, there's a whole lot of knowledge among the CALI staff about legal education, technology, and access to justice. So follow along at the new CALI Spotlight Blog where CALI staffers will soon post individual thoughts and opinions about the things we are passionate about here at CALI.

Classcaster blogs fully functional now.

Update 10/13 8pm: Classcaster is up and running again. Head over to classcaster.net or your favorite Classcaster blog and see for yourself. We're sorry about that.

10/13 5:30pm: We're experiencing some technical issues with Classcaster at the moment. Class blogs and others, like LibTour, are currently unavailable. Please bear with us as we work to fix the problems. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

CALI Conference 2012 Dates

Clear your calendar. The 2012 CALI Conference for Law School Computing® will be held in San Diego, Thursday-Saturday, June 21-23 at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Watch this blog, Twitter, or Facebook for future CALIcon12 announcements. And if you want to relive past conferences, we've uploaded to YouTube any and all past conference video we had stored away on servers. Enjoy!

Announcing Federal Rules eBooks.

In law school every Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence student needs a copy of their respective federal rules. Another book to buy, right? Not necessarily.

We've partnered with the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School to publish the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence in ebook format. The books are completely free to download and use, but please consider a donation to LII. Our eLangdell books are open and lack any DRM, so they're compatible with iPads, Kindles, and much more. Have a look...

LessonLink lesson tracking feature for faculty upgraded.

We've heard your collective feedback and implemented a few updates for one of our favorite faculty features: LessonLink score tracking (a LessonLink FAQ if you're unfamiliar).


New options for current LessonLinks.

What used to be the "My LessonLinks" tab is now called "Current  LessonLinks" (you'll need to login at cali.org to see LessonLink pages).

Your links are organized into groups called courses. Each of your current courses now has some new options...

A2J making expungement forms easier in Illinois.

A2J Author was created by CALI for Chicago-Kent's Center for A2J. The software creates automated, online interviews that help unrepresented litigants more easily produce legal documents.

Use of the software continues to grow in the legal aid community. Illinois Legal Aid Online, for instance, just launched five new A2J interviews on expungement of criminal records.:...

We have our winners!

Students tried one hundred and forty-one times, only two did it. Both Shawn Chang of University of Georgia and Vincent Costa of Touro Law Center completed the CALI Punctuation and Grammar for Law Students Challenge, answering all questions in the lesson correctly. Congratulations, guys! We'll contact you both with details on your prizes. As a consolation, everyone who took the challenge is surely a better writer now. Thanks to all who participated. Stay tuned, we may do this again.

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