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Sarah Glassmeyer, Reference Librarian at the University of Kentucky, will cover free alternatives to course management software such as wikis and blogs in this coming Friday's webinar.

Follow the link below to reserve your seat today if you have not already:


Friday, Sep 18, 3 EDT:
Free Alternatives to Course Management Software (Blogs and Wikis)

Because of the tight job market, many CALI member schools have asked us if their recent grads can continue to access CALI Lessons to keep skills sharp.

We are happy to announce that CALI will, by default, extend CALI Lesson access for at least six months after students at member schools have graduated.

To access CALI Lessons, recent grads can simply login at www.cali.org using the same CALI account they used while in school.

There is often confusion surrounding the CALI authorization code among new students. Here are a few tips and a 2 minute video that should help avoid confusion. Please pass them on to your students:

Take a look at our upcoming webinars.

With LessonLink, professors can:

To ease the transition to the new CALI website, we have created a quick tutorial on how member school's students can register at www.cali.org. 

Plagiarism and Punctuation and Grammar: at every school these are basic issues that absolutely must be addressed for your new students. But there is only so much in-class time to devote to these issues.

We highly recommend school administrators, faculty, and students take a look at CALI's Plagiarism Lesson by Prof. Rebecca Trammell and Punctuation and Grammar, Basic and Advanced, Lessons by Prof. Wayne Sheiss.

We have two guest presenters for upcoming webinars on law school professionals' use of Twitter.

1) Friday, August 7, 3 PM Eastern

Twitter from a Law School Communications Professional's Perspective - Tonya Oaks Smith (@marleysmom), Director of Communications at the UALR Bowen School of Law (@bowenlaw). More details...

Reserve your seat at this webinar now.

CALI will once again be sending DVD-Roms out to all member US law schools along with authorization code cards...enough for ALL of your students. They should be arriving towards the end of July/early August.

CALI will once again be sending DVD-Roms out to all member US law schools along with authorization code cards...enough for ALL of your students. They should be arriving towards the end of July/early August.

We will launch the newly designed CALI website on Monday, July 27th.

But first, from 12:00 PM EST on Saturday, July 25th through 5:00 PM EST on Sunday, July 26th the website will be down for scheduled maintenance.

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We will launch the newly designed CALI website on Monday, July 27th.

But first, from 12:00 PM EST on Saturday, July 25th through 5:00 PM EST on Sunday, July 26th the website will be down for scheduled maintenance.

read more

You should  take a look at Professor Richard Leiter's blog post about the 2009 CALI Conference.

And don't forget, Sarah Glassmeyer had a great post on her blog, as well.

We're very appreciative of write-ups like these, and we take these and other forms of feedback about the conference into consideration as we plan the next year's conference.