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Video of today's webinar, a preview of the CALI Conference, is now available online. You can find it here:

http://blip.tv/file/2147996

The CALI staff will go over some expected highlights for the 2009 CALI Conference for Law School Computing in this Webinar.

If you're already registered for the conference, are still considering attending, or need more reasons to give your boss to convince her to let you go you should register for this webinar:

The CALI Conference giveaway has some of the best prizes we have ever given away at a conference including...

If you missed it, there was a recent article on our friend Ron Staudt, Director of the Center for Access to Justice for whom CALI developed A2J Author.

For those of you interested in learning more about A2J, Professor Staudt also recently wrote an article for ABA Practice Management about about the use of technology to further legal aid initiatives with a short section on A2J here:

This year is the 10th anniversary of CALI Author, CALI's lesson authoring software.

For those who don't know, CALI Author is a user-friendly software that enables anyone (usually with a little training) to create CALI lessons.

CALI Author fundamentally changed the way CALI creates lessons.

Don't believe me?:

There has been some buzz around the web for our Social Media Best Practices Workshop.

The preliminary agenda for the 2009 Conference for Law School Computing(r) is now available.

This year we've added a great new feature...

Attendees can create a personal conference schedule by choosing the sessions they plan to attend. To create a personalized conference schedule just:

1) Login to the CALI Conference homepage and follow the link to the conference agenda.

In addition to all of our previous webinars, find video of the May 8th, 2009 webinar, Introduction to Authoring CALI Lessons, at CALI's blip.tv webpage.

Thanks to all who attended and feel free to sign up both of our next two webinars:

Pre- CALI Conference Webinar, May 22, 2009 @ 3:00 EST

The CALI staff will go over some expected highlights for the 2009 CALI Conference for Law School Computing in this Webinar.

This month's Chicago Lawyer has a great write-up on a friend of CALI's, Professor Ron Staudt (complete with a few quotes from CALI Executive Director, John Mayer).

Technology Evangelist Keeps Faith in Legal Aid

The rapidly increasing use among law students of social media like Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter  has left many law school administrators uncertain of how to approach their students' use.

Our colleague, Gene Koo, points out:

CALI is excited to announce the Conference for Law School Computing keynote speaker: John Palfrey. Mr. Palfrey is Professor of Law and Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School, as well as a Faculty Co-Director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

This Friday's webinar, May 8 @ 3:00 EST, will show you the basics of creating CALI Lessons with the CALI Author software. Reserve your seat by registering today:

Click Here to Register.

As always, the webinar is a free service provided to CALI member organizations' staff and faculty.

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The deadline for CALI Conference group hotel rates is coming up fast.

Here's a link to conference hotel information.

And don't forget to register for the conference here.

Video of the 4/24/2009 CALI Webinar, "Tools for Professors Using CALI Lessons," is now available:

Deb Quentel, our Director of Curriculum Development, covers two advanced features available to CALI Lesson users:

LessonLink - Create a unique URL for a specific CALI Lesson. Then track who has taken that lesson through that URL and the lesson-takers' scores.