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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:

The recording of the March 27, 2009 webinar on two online tools that can engage your student laptop users in the classroom (CALI Instapoll and Google Moderator) is now available. Click on the picture to watch the recording.

Check out the archive of past webinars at calivideos.blip.tv.

Click here to see who's using one of the tools we cover in webinar tomorrow.

REGISTER NOW

This webinar will give a quick overview of a few free online tools like Google Moderator as well as other group question tools and CALI's very own Instapoll.

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar Seat Now at:

https://global.gotowebinar.com/register/162356413

Law Librarian Blog links to CALI's previous webinar on classroom podcasting and classcaster.

Thanks for the link!

Stay tuned for more on this Friday's webinar.

CALI sends out, literally, thousands of DVD's, every Fall; enough for all member law school's entire student body. We hope each school can distribute each and every disc to a student or faculty member, but we realize this may be impossible for some schools.

So to reduce environmental impact, CALI will pay for the recycling of leftover discs (up to 2 boxes, 20 lbs each).

AALL has formed a partnership with CALI to provide all of its member librarians with access to CALI Lessons.

From AALL's February 2009 e-Newsletter:

In addition to continued access to popular services like CALI Lessons, ClassCaster, Awards, The Conference for Law School Computing, and Instapoll; this year CALI provided member schools with more innovative services than ever. 

We gave you brand new services.

Sarah Walton, professor of justice studies at the University of Maine at Augusta, is using CALI Lessons to teach troops in Afghanistan.

Now the 5,000-student college is reaching out to active-duty personnel stationed overseas. UMA will offer priority slots in five summer courses this year to a Maine Army National Guard unit stationed in Kandahar.

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