There is not a lot of hand-holding in law school. As an incoming 1L, a certain base level of skills and knowledge is expected of you. In order to make it in law school you should a) recall the very basics of the law - high school level civics stuff, b) be able to write free of many grammar and punctuation problems, and c) recognize what plagiarism is and know how to avoid it.

Coincidently (or not), we at CALI have three CALI lessons that deal with each. Respectively:...

• Where Does Law Come From?
• Punctuation and Grammar Basics for Law Students (part 2/advanced also available)
• Plagiarism - Keeping Out of Trouble

If you're set to become 1L this fall, get the CALI authorization code from a law librarian at your school and run through each of these lessons. Do it now, before the busyness of attending law school sets in.

If you work at a law school as a librarian or professor, think about assigning one or all of these lessons to your incoming students.

 

You can find video of yesterday's webcast on the new, smartphone-compatible on Youtube.

Faculty and staff already have access to the new interface. So watch the webcast video, run a lesson with the new interface, and let us know what you think!

Tomorrow, July 12, at 3PM eastern we're hosting a live webcast where we'll discuss the new CALI Lesson interface. Make sure you register!

Please join us as we demo the new lessons, explain the timeline for implementation, and answer your questions.

CALI Lessons are going to look a lot different for the upcoming 2011-2012 school year. Content of the lessons will remain the same, but the new-look lessons will include features you've been asking us about for awhile:

• CALI Lessons will finally work on tablets and smartphones like iPads and iPhones. They will, of course, continue to work on your computer.

If you're coming to the CALI conference in Milwaukee, please sign up by June 9 for the group outing to the Sausage Race at Milwaukee's Miller Park. As pre-race entertainment there will be several innings of a baseball exhibition between purported professional baseball teams: the Minnesota Twins and the hometown Brewers. The teams will resume their baseball match at the conclusion of the race. Video footage of a previous race below...

CALI conference attendees can hear the "Abbott and Costello of law school IT" (John, our Executive Director, and Elmer, our Director of Internet Development) discuss this year's CALI Conference in the recently posted Law School Tech Talk podcast, Episode 14.

Still time to register and join us for the conference in Milwaukee, if this thoroughly engaging duo piques your interest.