Technology at Albany Law School

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• Google Scholar Now Includes Case Law

  I asked a 3L to try it out for me.  He put in a term for reserach is doing for a class  and replied: “THIS IS AWESOME!!” Westlaw and Lexis:  Watch out….

• New Poll on Students and Technology Use

  From today’s Campus Technology News Update: The report, “2009 21st-Century Campus Report: Defining the Vision,” released by CDW Government, polled about 1,000 students, instructors, and IT department staff members in order to gauge their attitudes…

• Results of Kenneth Green’s “Campus Computing Project”

  An online seminar entitled  Managing Online Education Programs was held on Oct 28, 2009.  The handouts and archived webcast are now available – Here are some of the key points: Institutional efforts to expand online education impeded…

• Albany Law School’s First Online Course

    Government Ethics taught by Dean Salkin this spring will be Albany Law School first totally online course.  (Judge Stein has previously taught several HYBRID courses where 1/2 of the class interaction was online). Students…

• What’s On Their Minds? 2009 Voice of the Student Report

  This new report was published by IntelliResponse and parts of it are enlightening.  It deals with the top online questions posed by students in colleges & universities, their impact on various depratments at higher ed institutions, such as IT,…

• Windows 7 is out…

  Though I haven’t seen it yet…here’s what they say is  new:  New Windows Task bar – It looks and feels a lot more like Mac OS X’s dock. These programs can be reordered by dragging…

• If you can’t beat em, join em

   You have to communicate with students the way they like to communicate or they will not pay attention.  In fact, when I searched,  there were about 50  or so Albany Law Facebook pages. Albany Law’s FB…

• More on Online Learning

  Today’s Inside Higher Ed had an interesting article. I’ve extracted some key statements from the article: … many colleges still know precious little about how best to organize online programs, whether those programs are profitable, and…

• 60 or so Must Visit Sites

  The ABA TechShow does a presentation each year called 60 Sites in Sixty Minutes. The Social Media Law Student Blog did a better job on this list: http://socialmedialawstudent.com/twitter/60-epic-sites Here’s a link to the CALI presentation…

• Harvard Law Class is Online and on TV

  Michael J. Sandel’s “Justice,” long one of the most popular classes at Harvard, will now be available for free online and on public television. Complete NYTimes artticle - Morals Class Is Starting; Please Pass the Popcorn Interesting…