Are new educational technologies more effective in helping students achieve learning objectives than the old technology they replace? How IT professionals implement educational technologies, and how instructors use the technology can mean the difference between no impact on student achievement, and higher grades with more engaged students.

Currently there are at least 30 Law Schools and Bar Associations running incubator programs and the number may well double in the next year. The incubator programs for lawyers have only been in existence since 2007 and they generally have two goals—training and support for solo and small firm practitioners and improving access to justice for those often excluded from legal resources... This program will cover the current state of the situation, guidance on how to get involved with the incubator programs, and an interactive discussion of how this could further develop.

With a little over 40 days until CALIcon, we've finalized the list of accepted sessions and notified the authors.   It looks like we're going to have a great program, with topics ranging from assessment to beginning coding to video production to pedagogy to, yes, even powerpoint. Check them out!

Jennifer L. Behrens is the Head of Reference Services and a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University's Goodson Law Library. Since arriving at Duke in 2006, she has taught legal research in the law school's 1L and international student programs, and also teaches upper-level seminar classes on technology in the law office and advanced legal research. She received a J.D. and an M.L.S. from the University at Buffalo, and holds a B.A. in English from Daemen College. She is a member of the New York State bar, and is active in the American Association of Law Libraries, the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, and the North Carolina Library Association’s Government Resources Section.

This lesson deals with the formation of contracts under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (excluding 2-207 issues). At common law, a contract is formed often by the showing of mutual assent plus a consideration. The rule is reversed under the Uniform Commercial Code, however. Under UCC 2-204, a contract can be formed in any manner sufficient to show agreement, even if the parties leave open terms. This lesson will explore the effect of the difference in formation between common law and Article 2. You can work this lesson as an introduction to the formation of contracts under the UCC or as a review. The material in this lesson may be a more in-depth study of Article 2 than some first year contracts courses require. However, prior to working this lesson, you should have an understanding of the common law on offer, acceptance and mutual assent.

Where are you planning on being in mid-June? Did you answer "At CALIcon in Denver"? If so, don't forget to register for the conference! You'll have to do it sometime and it's super-helpful for us to have some idea of headcounts for ordering things. If you didn't answer "at CALIcon in Denver", WHY NOT? It's the only conference that brings together law professors, technologists and law librarians. I've gotten a sneak peek at the sessions and this one is going to be GREAT!

Not all CALI lessons are linear. To the student they may appear linear and some are in fact linear. But the option to create complex branching questions that allows the student to “choose his own adventure” through responses is available to the lesson’s author.

This electronic publication was conceived in the summer of 1992. A small band of Cornell Law students, charged with identifying subjects on which computer-based materials would be particularly helpful, placed citation at the top of the list. With their assistance I prepared the first edition of Introduction to Basic Legal Citation. It was released on diskette that fall, one of the first hypertext publications of Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII). Later reconfigured for the Web, where it still resides at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/, the work has been updated regularly in the years since. Like that online version on which it is based, this e-book was most recently revised in the fall of 2013. As has been true of all editions released since 2010, it is indexed to the fourth edition of the ALWD Citation Manual and the nineteenth edition of The Bluebook. But it also rests firmly on the evolving practice of judges writing opinions and lawyers writing briefs.

Professor George received her BA from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1975 and her J.D. from Harvard in 1978. She was in private practice with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles 1978-83. She has taught at the College of William and Mary (1983-88); the University of Colorado (1988-99); the University of N.C. at Chapel Hill, 1999-present. She has also served as the Associate Vice President for Human Relations and Risk Management (University of Colorado, Office of the President, 1996-99) and Interim General Counsel, UNC-CH, 2003-04.

This lesson explores the concept of a "joint work" in copyright law, including the legal standards which determine whether a work has been jointly authored as well as the legal consequences that attach to this characterization.

Approximate Completion Time: 35 minutes plus 20 minute essay