Many law librarians have studied instructional design and teaching techniques in library school, taught hands-on experiential research courses using various technology tools, or taken online courses as part of a graduate school curriculum. This makes them uniquely equipped to aid clinicians with adopting instructional and law practice technologies to better achieve learning outcomes or impart skills in new ways. This session will present two examples of how law librarians at two different law schools are helping clinicians at their schools incorporate technology into their teaching.

From our own life experiences, we know that hands-on learning is best. We can listen to someone explain to us how to hit a backhand, or use a function in Word or on our computer, or bake a cake, but it isn't until we try it ourselves do we really understand how it is done and do we learn. Law is no exception.

Nobody scrolls past the break. Nobody clicks to the second page of search results. With almost everyone conducting legal research online, a potentially groundbreaking article can remain unread if it is not ranked highly enough by a search engine’s algorithm. Research shows that students and scholars are increasingly using algorithm-driven search engines like Google Scholar as their primary tool for finding legal scholarship. How can scholars take advantage of the way these algorithms work so that their publications appear on the first page of search results? What can you do to help your school’s faculty adjust to this new legal research model?

If you use Oyez, you must know it inside and out. You know all there is to know about Oyez, right? Wrong. Oyez has tons of hidden features, fun surprises, and helpful information underneath its mild-mannered persona. Plus, with new Oyez on the way (and hopefully live by the time CALIcon rolls around), there are plenty of new and exciting features available. Instead of being overwhelmed by features both new and old, stop by our session to learn about it from the experts - the staff of Oyez.

Associate Dean William Byrnes, a pioneer in online legal education, will be co-presenting with Director Jason Fiske. Dean Byrnes will be discussing the optimal pedagogy for online legal education, and will provide updates on current trends in the field. This includes the creation of an enhanced online learning environment for students, and how instructors can guide the students in a collaborative "partnering" manner. Also discussed will be how students can form effective learning groups in an online setting. Director Fiske will present on building a new online legal education program at a university. Director Fiske will discuss the implementation process to begin a new online program, and the advanced tools and methods employed. Practical examples will be displayed on the building of online classrooms, including online tools for the effective and efficient delivery of information and assessments (CALI included).

The OASIS Legal Citation Markup Technical Committee has been hard at work creating a markup standard for all legal citations worldwide. This is an effort to work with all kinds of citations styles to facilitate machine readable links between documents in a standard format that all legal information suppliers, and all legal information programmers can use and understand. Several of the TC's subcommittees are working on use-cases for the various types of legal document citations (court documents, legislatiive documents, administrative documents, and secondary source documents), as well as the technical work on the standard itself. In this session, Mr. Heywood will report on the progress of the Technical Committee and its subcommittees this year, and why you should care.

Legal educators were slow to adopt PowerPoint as a teaching tool, but many law professors and law librarians are now using PowerPoint or other presentation software for teaching and presentations. Unfortunately, as anyone who has attended a legal conference can attest, many of us don't have a clue about how to design effective PowerPoint presentations. The result is distracted audiences, confusing presentations, and ineffective teaching. This presentation will focus on some of the most common mistakes people make in creating PowerPoint presentations and discuss how to improve your PowerPoint presentations. Almost all of what I say will also be applicable to other presentation software and most of what I say is also applicable to graphics created for videos.

Technology is advancing and mutating so rapidly that it’s often a challenge for tech professionals to keep up, much less the non-technical people we support. This presents a huge opportunity for IT to redefine its role from one of reactive support to one of proactive innovation. Through combination of curiosity, creative play and experimentation, IT professionals have the opportunity to lead their organizations leaps and bounds forward by anticipating needs and providing cutting edge solutions. Join us for a discussion of some of the things we’re currently experimenting with and how our curiosity for new technologies and creative play are helping us develop tools that meet real needs at our law school.

The A2J Author Course Project ("Project") is a groundbreaking initiative that supports and promotes the teaching of A2J Author in law schools across the country to help lower barriers to access to justice. A2J Author is an expert system with an authoring tool that creates graphical Guided Interviews, which walk self-represented litigants through a legal process.

Legal education is undergoing a transformation. Assessing institutional effectiveness is a growing concern for the ABA and was the subject of several new accreditation standards that were approved in August of 2014. Law schools are finding it increasingly necessary to transform to address the challenges of these new assessment initiatives, or risk becoming obsolete. This session will focus on technological solutions that can help law schools quickly adapt to the rapidly shifting landscape of legal education.