Spotlight Blog

Teaching Law Students to Program?

One of the more controversial suggestions in legal education reform is the idea that law students should learn computer programming.  Critics wonder what possible use this could have.  Are future lawyers going to have to build their own tools?  Is it only useful for students preparing for a career with a legal product developer?

Brush Up on CALI

webinarimageA new semester means a new opportunity to use CALI to help with your classes – whether you are a professor or a law student!  Next week our Director of Community Development, Sarah Glassmeyer, will be hosting two 20 minute webinars that will explain everything you need to know to start using CALI.


Get Ready for Finals

Even though it’s only the end of October, it’s not too early to start planning for final exam time.  Here at CALI, our usage statistics go through the roof starting around Thanksgiving every year.  Accompanying this are lots of questions from students with registration issues, questions about authorization code contacts and lost passwords.

CALI Webinars – Classcaster, Open Access/OER and more!

webinarimagePlease mark your calendars for the following webinars on CALI and legal education related topics.  Webinars will be on Tuesdays at 11 am Central, with a live encore performance at 2pm Central on Fridays.  They are all free to attend and will be 15-30 minutes in length, depending on topics.  These will be live and you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions.

CALI Lessons – Edit, Make Your Own or See Your Student Scores

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!

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