As you (hopefully) know, CALI lessons are written and peer reviewed by law professors and librarians. But did you know that you can still write your own lesson and publish them to our website? We don’t intentionally keep this a secret, but for some reason people are always surprised to learn this!
This Friday, September 27 and Tuesday, October 1 at 3pm we will be having a live webcast explaining how to use CALI’s AutoPublish and LessonLink Features. These are the tools that allow law professors and librarians to write, edit and keep track of student performance on CALI lessons. Register for the Friday webcast here and Tuesday one here.
Why would you want to write your own CALI lesson?
For in-class purposes, one can then use a CALI Lesson as an alternative to a PowerPoint presentation in a classroom lecture. Unlike PowerPoint, faculty can take advantage of the branching logic capabilities of CALI Author and work through hypotheticals or go down various paths and lines of inquiry. You could also include questions in the lesson for students to work through at their seat while the person in the “hot seat” is being orally questioned or put questions at the end for students to do for review out of class. It can be left up on our website for the entire semester – so students can go back and redo the lesson out of class for finals review – or you can delete it immediately after class. The choice is yours! Best of all, since it’s an AutoPublished lesson, it has the LessonLink features so the faculty member can go back and view student answers and see if certain concepts need to be reviewed again or if it “sunk in.”
Out of class it can be used for “flipped classroom” prep. Again, since CALI Author provides powerful logic and branching capabilities, it can be an excellent alternative to an in-class lecture and can be created without the need to do any screen casting or recording.
That’s just a small sampling! Full details and live demos will be available during the webcasts. Please plan at attend and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.