Freedom of Speech for Public School Employees
This lesson addresses freedom of speech issues for public school employees at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels.
This lesson addresses freedom of speech issues for public school employees at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels.
This is a special edition of CALIcon dedicated to the community's experience with moving their law schools online.
CALIcon2020 is putting out a brand new, clean slate Call For Speakers. We want you to do a 15 minute pre-recorded session on some topic related to Pandemic + Legal Education + Tech. This can be a screencast, interpretive dance, podcast, Zoom panel discussion – whatever you want, but you have to record it and upload it to us by Midnight on Friday, May 15, 2020.
We will choose 18 of these and assemble them into clusters of three 15 minute presentations to be streamed live during the conference June 3 - 5, 2020. The live stream will give speakers a chance to present their session live and interact with a remote audience.
Conference Description:
We are in the midst of the largest distance learning experiment in legal education history. Everyone – faculty, students, Teknoids, law librarians, edtech folks – everyone – has experienced it differently and had to make adjustments or witnessed a rapid change. We want you to talk about that. How’d it go? Does this mean real, permanent change for legal education? What did you learn? If you could go back in time to December 2019, what advice would you give yourself? You get the idea.
For submission(s), click here. The deadline to submit is Friday, May 15, 2020.
A basic introduction (or refresher!) about sources of law, court structure, and precedent.
I have seen many law schools and law faculty sharing information, tutorials, videos, and other information related to maintaining continuity of legal education by moving courses online. This webpage collects those resources and will be updated.
Tracy Norton/Touro Law posted this to HYBRIDJDS@listserv.touro.edu listserv on 3/10/2020
As promised, I've recorded several videos to help out with teaching online generally and using Zoom specifically. The first two are quick how-tos on equipment that could be helpful and features that help you and your space look camera ready.
The last two are different recordings of a single conversation between me, Ann Nowak (Touro Law Writing Center Director) and Lynne Kramer (Touro Law Professor, trial ad and negotiations) in which we talk about some practical tips that aren't covered in most help videos. We also talk about using different features for different types of classroom activities. Ann talks about her very interactive online Law Practice Management course as well as individual meetings for the Writing Center. Lynne talks about trial ad and negotiation exercises. I talk about writing courses and feedback conferences. The first of these videos is what Zoom recorded and is, mostly, what participants would have seen. The second of these videos is a screencast so you can see what I was seeing as I moderated the conversation and how I accessed the different features. At one point, I accidentally leave the Zoom room, so the Zoom video records what Lynne was saying while the screencast does not, because I wasn't there.
Video 1: Equipment Setup (6 min, 14 sec) - https://youtu.be/7_R4UhSAEEY
Video 2: Zoom Feature for Sprucing Up Your Appearance and Your Space (3 min, 43 sec) - https://youtu.be/p0M4kSk2ozk
Video 3: Zoom Recording of a Conversation Sharing Practical Tips (1 hour, 2 minutes) - https://youtu.be/2BueUNvH_oI
Video 4: Screencast Recording of a Conversation Sharing Practical Tips (same conversation as Video 3, just from the moderator's perspective) ) (58 minutes, 23 sec)) - Recorded Using Camtasia - https://youtu.be/Xyp7oyIhA0c
Making the Shift to Online Learning: Emergency Preparedness & Instructional Continuity - Video - Online Learning Consortium
Using Live, Online Sessions to Support Continuity of Instruction - Video - Online Learning Consortium
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