<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Laura Bergus &#187; students with laptops</title>
	<atom:link href="http://laurabergus.com/tag/students-with-laptops/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://laurabergus.com</link>
	<description>Law grad + web &#38; media background = belief that legal services should be affordable, accessible, and online.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 14:57:41 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Computer-assisted legal instruction: what an idea!</title>
		<link>http://laurabergus.com/2009/04/computer-assisted-legal-instruction-what-an-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://laurabergus.com/2009/04/computer-assisted-legal-instruction-what-an-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Bergus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[law school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CALI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[students with laptops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology in the classroom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://laurabergus.com/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently discovered that my school is one of only five ABA-accredited law schools that doesn&#8217;t belong to the consortium called CALI. CALI is the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction. Sounded right up my alley, so I looked a bit deeper and ended up feeling&#8230; pretty jealous. Thousands of law students &#8211; my peers across [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently discovered that my school is one of <a href="http://twitter.com/CALILawSchool/status/1420843657">only five ABA-accredited law schools that doesn&#8217;t belong</a> to the consortium called <a href="http://www2.cali.org/">CALI</a>. CALI is the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction. Sounded right up my alley, so I looked a bit deeper and ended up feeling&#8230; pretty jealous. Thousands of law students &#8211; my peers across the country &#8211; have access to a steady stream of interactive lessons on many topics. Online, any time of day or night. From <a href="http://twitter.com/CALILawSchool">following CALI on Twitter</a> I was introduced to more content&#8211; this free for anyone: webinars and online articles on seriously relevant topics like &#8220;Engaging Laptop Users&#8221; (for profs who know students spend more time on Facebook and IMing than on typing notes&#8230;) or using MediaNotes (a CALI program for tagging video for evaluation of mock trial, oral argument, etc.). Check out the <a href="http://www2.cali.org">Spotlights on their homepage</a> for more.</p>
<p>Granted, CALI&#8217;s website looks like it was created in 1998 (oh, color scheme!&#8230;[though I should talk, since this blog's contrast is only readable on 1/2 of all LCD monitors]), and there seem to be <a href="http://w.cali.org/">two</a> <a href="http://www2.cali.org">competing</a> main sites? But what they&#8217;re doing and attempting is amazing: leading law schools along the path to adopting and utilizing modern technology in the classroom. Not for the sake of technology (like every PowerPoint presentation I sat through in college in the late 90s), but for the sake of more effectively delivering content and engaging participation with users who are eternally hunched behind their screens. I&#8217;m impressed and I hope my school and the other holdouts will see the value ($5,000 per year = <$9/student at my school) and give it try. We&#8217;re only about three decades behind the times, since CALI was incorporated in 1982&#8230;</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://laurabergus.com/2009/04/computer-assisted-legal-instruction-what-an-idea/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

