ALLOCATE YOUR $1,000,000 HERE!
For our Exhibitor Showcase, we are doing something a little different. Below are 6 projects that CALI is working on - albeit slowly. These are not on our front burner. This is mostly due to time or money constraints. There are so many interesting things we are working on like new Law School Success lessons, new, free, open casebooks, and upgrades to A2J Author.
YOU HAVE $1,000,000.00 (One MEEEEEEEELION DOLLARS) and you can invest in any or all of the following projects. You can put it all on one project or spread the love around.
The place to that is this Google Form.
If you would like to talk more about CALI or these projects, feel free to email me directly at jmayer@cali.org.
1. TIME TRIAL TOURNAMENTS
Time Trial is an online game on the CALI website where students have to place cards in the correct chronological order. The cards have ...
- All the Supreme Court Justices with the date they were appointed.
- All the Amendments to the Constitution with the date of ratification.
- Famous cases (at least to law students) with their date of decision.
- Famous Acts of Law with the date of passage.
- All the US Presidents with the date of election.
- Notable people and events relevant to law like Famous Lawyers, Solicitors General, etc.
The game can still be played at www.cali.org/TimeTrial and has its adherents. There are 600 cards in three series.
This project is about re-architecting the online game so that it can be played as a competitive tournament between two people. Instead of an open-ended game, the players would have 60 seconds (software configurable) to place as many cards as possible. They would receive points for each correctly placed card in the timeline and lose points for errors. Instead of a board of 5 cards - which would require the placing of the next card into one of six different slots, there would only be TWO cards, so the player has to place the next card BEFORE, BETWEEN or AFTER the cards in play.
Once the basic game is rebuilt, we would configure a new website for tournaments. The possibilities are interesting...
- ad-hoc games between students
- tournaments between students and faculty
- students from different law schools
- Deans or Scholars competing as a fundraiser,
2. CALI LESSONS AS PODCASTS
This project is simple in concept. Run the text of existing CALI Lessons through the AWS Polly Text-To-Speech (TTS) system and create podcasts that read out the CALI Lesson. Podcasts are a great way to learn - a different modality - that can be consumed while exercising, walking or commuting to/from law school. The key to this project is to automate the production so that we can generate podcasts for all 1200+ CALI Lessons. The challenge is to make the podcasts worth listening to - especially the multiple-choice questions - using different voices and additional verbal guidance that is not in the text of the lesson right now. We did some experiments and we are optimistic that this would be a useful resource for law students.
3. INSTRUCTOR VIDEO COMMENTARY IN CALI LESSONS
Due to the pandemic and "Zoom School of Law', law faculty are now familiar - even comfortable - with teaching via video. This project hopes to leverage that new literacy. When law faculty are viewing a CALI Lesson, there would be a button to let faculty record a 30-90 second video comment relevant to the content or question that is on the screen in the CALI Lesson. Law faculty could use this to explain the content in the context of their course, or even to disagree with the author of the CALI Lesson.
The process would generate a LessonLink - a unique URL - that the faculty could give to just their own students. This would let faculty take a little bit of ownership of the material and add context or more thoroughly explain a tricky point of law.
If this gets popular, CALI would have to deal with storing and streaming thousands of small videos and also building the back-end infrastructure for handling the recordings seamlessly.
4. ESCAPE ROOM CONSTRUCTION KIT
This project is inspired by two presentations at the CALI Conference on how to create your own online Escape Rooms that are legal education oriented. Escape rooms are just a series of puzzles that can be found out of order, but need to be applied in a particular order in order to open a locked door and "escape" the room (or a series of rooms). The puzzles can be any kind of trivia - or legal education related - problems. That's the rub!
This project envisions a website that is a collection of pre-built puzzles and patterns that law faculty or law librarians can use to construct escape rooms that are "themed" to legal research, torts, contract law, etc. etc.
The website would have collections of assets - pictures, animations, and backgrounds. CALI could pay for a couple of example escape rooms to be built that new users could clone as a starting point for their project. Obviously, there are parallels here with CALI Lessons.
5. QUIZWRIGHT / CALI LESSONS ON AMAZON ECHO
What if your Amazon Echo could quiz you, keep score and give you feedback? The idea behind this project is to write code that would convert an existing CALI Lesson or QuizWright quiz into an interactive tutorial that runs on the Amazon Echo.
6. SYLLABUS MAKER / SYLLABI COMMONS
CALI collects syllabi for law school courses that involve any sort of tech. This project envision expanding that to collect syllabi for any and all law school courses. This collection would be valuable in its own right, but wait, there's more!
This project further envisions
ALLOCATE YOUR $1,000,000 HERE!
For our Exhibitor Showcase, we are doing something a little different. Below are 6 projects that CALI is working on - albeit slowly. These are not on our front burner. This is mostly due to time or money constraints. There are so many interesting things we are working on like new Law School Success lessons, new, free, open casebooks, and upgrades to A2J Author.
YOU HAVE $1,000,000.00 (One MEEEEEEEELION DOLLARS) and you can invest in any or all of the following projects. You can put it all on one project or spread the love around.
The place to that is this Google Form.
If you would like to talk more about CALI or these projects, feel free to email me directly at jmayer@cali.org.
