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Faculty developing course kits that will be offered to all 200+ CALI member schools

CHICAGO–December 27, 2012 – The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI®) will announce at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools in New Orleans on January 6, 2013 that they have reached agreements with faculty members from six law schools to develop course kits as part of the Access to Justice Clinical Course Project (A2J Clinic Project).

There are few “down” times in the CALIverse, but the Christmas through New Year holiday break is one of them. I use the time to do updates and upgrades and installs that would be disruptive at other times of the year. I also use the quiet stretches to try out new things. One of the new things I took a shot at this break is building a PirateBox.  A PirateBox is:

If you’re attending the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, join us Sunday morning for breakfast and a short presentation on CALI’s projects in interactive legal education, e-casebooks, and practicum-based learning.

Sunday, January 6, 2013, 7:15-8:30 a.m.
River Room, 2nd Floor Riverside Building
Hilton New Orleans Riverside

Did you know that you can use Word 2010 to write posts for your Classcaster blog? All you need to do is follow 10 steps to setup Word so that it know about your Classcaster blog and you’re in business.

Today I decided to dust off my anthropology degree and do a little fieldwork in a law school class. Why?

Here at CALI we don’t do things for glory or fame and we certainly don’t do it for the money.  We do what we do because we want to make legal education and educators better and to increase access to justice.  Still, it’s nice when one of our own gets recognized for being kind of awesome.

Deadline Sunday, November 11, 2012

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is seeking nominations of qualified and enthusiastic individuals to fill vacant positions on its Board of Directors. If you know of someone who would like to contribute to the research and development, strategic planning and governance of CALI, then consider nominating them for the CALI Board of Directors.

We’re very excited by the response we’ve gotten to the Request for Proposals for the new A2J Clinic Program.  Here are some answers to frequently asked questions we’ve received.  If you have any other questions, please don’t hestiate to contact CALI Excecutive Director John Mayer at jmayer @ CALI.org

Who owns the ‘Course Kits’?

The A2J Clinical Course Project is a coordinated effort by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, the Center for Access to Justice & Technology at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, and

Elmer Masters presenting Court Cloud and the Free Law Reporter

CALI lesson aren’t just for law students…many of our lessons are entirely appropriate for other legal academic programs.

One of my goals with the Instruction Spotlight series of posts on CALI Spotlight was to create a list of basic explanations to some of the major educational theories and ideas out there, both to teach myself as well as provide a resource for the CALI user base.  Well, as with all of my good ideas, someone has already though

Brandon S. Biagioli holds a B.A.

As you may know, one of the projects we work on here at CALI is eLangdell Press, which creates and distributes open law school casebooks.  We do this because we believe educational materials should be Open – that is to say, able to be remixed, reused and ideally free.