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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:

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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.

The upcoming webinar should be a good one for those of you who would like to know some advanced CALI Lesson features:

Tools for Professors Using CALI Lessons, Friday, April 24, 3 PM EST

Deb Quentel, our Director of Curriculum Development, will go over:

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.

CALI will have a table at two events over the weekend:

• The Southeastern Chapter of American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL) Annual Meeting in Athens, GA and
• The American Association for Paralegal Educators (AAfPE) Northeastern Regional Conference in Washington, DC.

If you will be there too, make sure you stop by and say hello.

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The next two webinars will be a series presented by Deb Quentel, CALI's Director of Curriculum Development...

1) Tools for Professors Using CALI Lessons (Friday, April 24, 3 PM EST)

Learn two tools for professors using CALI Lessons:

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.

Video of the webinar on MediaNotes video annotation software is now available.

MediaNotes is a video annotating software that is great for evaluating student performances.

In a legal education setting, MediaNotes is great for feedback and evaluation of student skills in settings such as mock trial, oral arguments, interviewing, and negotion.

Join us for a free Webinar on MediaNotes, tomorrow: Friday, April 10 at 3:00 PM Eastern.

Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

CALI would like to thank Laura Bergus, for highlighting CALI in a recent blog post.

Laura is a student at University of Iowa College of Law who is trying to help her school develop a social media best practices. We're very supportive of her effort to bring a positive change to her law school and hope that it is successful.

New Cali Lessons:

In the previous webinar, CALI went over two tools that professors can freely use to engage students in a positive way using laptops in the classroom: Google Moderator and CALI InstaPoll.

For those of you interested in alternative tools with slightly different features check out these two tools: